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Senior Youth Mental Health Practitioner

Employer
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Location
Specialist Services Directorate
Salary
£25,655 - £31,534 per annum depending on experience
Closing date
28 Oct 2021

​If you want to be part of an exciting new care pathway to provide intensive support and interventions to children, young people and their families then we want to hear from you. The Service will be based at the Darwin Centre, our Tier 4 CAMHS Inpatient Unit, and will provide support across the community setting delivering intensive interventions and support to young people in their own homes and helping them access the best possible care packages to prevent or shorten their length of inpatient admission. Take responsibility for professionally managing a caseload by advocating for the Young Person/Young Adult and to ensure the efficient implementation of these responsibilities. Promoting a positive working relationship and to engage with carers / relatives as appropriate.

You will provide expert guidance, advice and interventions to Young People, and their families and the professionals working around them in the areas of Youth Mental Health and Youth Culture.

You will work closely with the CAMHS work-stream of All Age Access based within the Crisis Care Centre and the CYP ISH Team based within the Darwin Centre, to identify children and young people who require early help and support with their mental health but may find it difficult to access the range of services currently available due to social circumstances or significant vulnerabilities.

The post will include a variety of interventions including screening new referrals, contributing in referral meetings, consultation to professionals, assessing the needs of the Young Person/Young Adult from a Youth Work Perspective, providing brief therapeutic interventions and delivering training, with a specific emphasis on Youth work and Youth Culture.

Main Responsibilities:

  • To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards of record keeping are adhered to.
  • To Participate in Multidisciplinary meetings.
  • Take prompt action on changes in condition, liaising with other members of the clinical (Multi-disciplinary) team when necessary, reviewing and communicating any amendments to the care plans Intervention Plans.
  • Promoting a culture in which positive and proactive engagement and intervention with patients and carers is actively encouraged both within the nursing team and within the wider service. Act as a role model and patient advocate in respect of this.
  • Facilitate close working relationships with other clinical teams, inpatient and community, other agencies and non-statutory bodies in order to ensure the minimum disruption to patient care as the client moves through the service. To ensure the timely completion of discharge reports / CPA documentation etc.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our team prides themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.

The Service will be based at the Darwin Centre, our Tier 4 CAMHS Inpatient Unit. 

The Team will offer a full induction package. 

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate person who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the Country.

In return we offer;

A competitive progressive salary

We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)

Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts

Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression

Excellent pension scheme available

27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)

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