Band 7 Youth Transitions Practitioner - Bristol

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Working with young people experiencing poor mental health across Bristol, who are in secondary mental health services and helping them and their mental health professionals in mapping and transitioning into a pathway to manage their mental health beyond their 18th birthday.
The post holder will ensure a cohesive, smooth transition for young adults from children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS) that is evidence as being significant in terms of their longer term recovery.
They will also provide expert advice and support to all relevant stakeholders with regards to young adults who are receiving support from secondary mental health services who are approaching their 18th birthday.
NICE guideline detail good practice in respect to the transition process and will help inform future practice.
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To establish and support the transitions pathway between Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) within Bristol.
To identify young people within CAMHS experiencing ongoing difficulties in relation to their mental health and work alongside them to support transition into adult services (this includes transitions across to primary care, secondary care and non-statutory support agencies).
To provide specialist advice to young people, family and professionals.
Specialist transition advice to professionals and young people in managing their mental health.
Ongoing consultation and advice for care coordinators for those in secondary services.
Provision of supported pathway for high risk / high complexity transitions.
Main Duties
To work across Bristol, supporting both CAMHS and adult recovery services in establishing pathways plans for young people who experience difficulties with their mental health.
To provide comprehensive and specialist advice around the development of a care pathway for a young person experiencing emotional dysregulation who is transitioning into AMHS.
To work with professionals and carers for the young person to ensure transition is seamless.
To plan, prioritise and work alongside the young person to ensure the transition process is clearly understood and managed effectively.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Please see job description attached

JOB PURPOSE:

To establish and support the transitions pathway between Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) within Bristol.
To identify young people within CAMHS experiencing ongoing difficulties in relation to their mental health and work alongside them to support transition into adult services (this includes transitions across to primary care, secondary care and non-statutory support agencies).
To provide specialist advice to young people, family and professionals.
Specialist transition advice to professionals and young people in managing their mental health.
Ongoing consultation and advice for care coordinators for those in secondary services.
Provision of supported pathway for high risk / high complexity transitions.

MAIN DUTIES:

To work across Bristol, supporting both CAMHS and adult recovery services in establishing pathways plans for young people who experience difficulties with their mental health.
To provide comprehensive and specialist advice around the development of a care pathway for a young person experiencing emotional dysregulation who is transitioning into AMHS.
To work with professionals and carers for the young person to ensure transition is seamless.
To plan, prioritise and work alongside the young person to ensure the transition process is clearly understood and managed effectively.
When a person if identified as requiring support from Recovery services, to ensure that a care coordinator is identified within AMHS and that joint working is undertaken during the period of transition.
To ensure that any other multi agency input is in place to meet.
To work with and on behalf of young people in a way that promotes and develops their efforts, resources and quality of life. To deliver services in a manner that is appropriate, relevant and respectful to all community members, recognising diversity of ethnicity, culture, belief, privilege and capacity.
To liaise and work in partnership with staff from other statutory services, voluntary agencies and community groups that work with adolescents.
To facilitate and improve pathways from third sector/statutory services to relevant adult and to provide advice and to assist other professionals working with young people with interventions which draw on own specialist professional knowledge.
To provide advice and support to carers/ relatives of young people.
To participate in clinical meetings e.g. CPA and client reviews as appropriate.
To link in as required with other services within AWP (Early Intervention, BASS, STEPS, ADHD service) when required as means of supporting as smooth a discharge as possible (noted that these services mainly manage their own transitions).
To support the full implementation of the Care Programme Approach.
To ensure that legal and Trust requirements affecting service user and staff are adhered to, and ensure a safe working environment for service users and staff. To cooperate with statutory agencies with the responsibility to protect children and ensure that issues of risk and safety of young people are assessed and any necessary action is implemented.
To maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times when working with highly distressed people.
In line with Trust policy, to receive regular clinical and management supervision.
To maintain accurate records relating to clinical and professional activity and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
To communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and professionals,
including information about diagnosis and prognosis, to find ways of enabling young people and their families to take this information on board, and to provide empathy and reassurance. To communicate hopefulness.

MOST CHALLENGING PART OF THIS ROLE:

To be part of developing multi-disciplinary and partnership working between CAMHS, AMHS and psychological therapies. Promoting links between agencies that work with young people and statutory
services. To develop care pathways for clients who have complex presentations.