Assistant Practitioner Under 18's Community

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

JOB OVERVIEW

Are you looking for change? Obtaining new skills, want to experience working in a different care setting?. Then CATAT ( CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Team) have a exciting opportunity for you.
Would you like to work in a team that strives to support children and young people to recover in their community rather than admission to specialist adolescent psychiatric inpatient units. Providing individual needs led support alongside the MDT, to support, encourage positive futures and giving them the opportunities to be able to manage in adult life. Then CATAT might be for you!
CATAT are commissioned to support Children and Young People (CYP) under the age of 18 within the Norfolk and Suffolk locality. The aim of CATAT is to support the young persons’ recovery in the least restrictive environment, if it is assessed that a young person requires admission to aid recovery CATAT will support discharge planning and to support them and their family in the community. The team will serve as a gateway in and out of Tier 4 (T4) provision so CYP will be able to access T4 provision / support without the need for admission. This is a significant change in both the clinical offer and culture.
CATAT aim to promote a preventative rather than a reactive approach to enable admission avoidance use of AMBIT based approaches and use of the THRIVE ethos aids and supports stabilisation as well as the system around the child

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

What will CATAT as a service offers

• Consultation/Advice
• Enhanced assessments
• Ensure that children & young people in Norfolk & Suffolk access care in the least restrictive environment possible.
• Case Formulation and ongoing case management to formulate the CYP care pathway.
• Face to face community-based visits
• Attending MDT, LEAPs, CETRs, MALMs, Linking in with inpatient and acute wards.
• Therapeutic interventions and approaches in relation to the expressed mental health needs of the CYP. Such as emotional regulation, DBT skills, AMBIT technics, risk management.
• Systemic approach to working with CYP, families, carers, and wider professional networks.
• Training and education for other services

• Promote joined up working and liaison with other involved services and teams across mental and physical health and children’s services.

  (The above list is not exhaustive, merely a starting point to show you what we do)

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Your role as an Assistant Practitioner would involve:

• Carrying out interventions with YP, such as distress tolerance, risk reduction, DBT informed skills.
• Risk monitoring/reviews.
• Completing care plans and recovery plans.
• Assisting Senior Clinicians with assessments.
• Attending MDT meetings.
• Traveling around Suffolk and Norfolk independently to get to the young people
• Visiting Acute Hospitals.

(The above list is not exhaustive, merely a starting point)
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.