Senior Mental Health 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.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be expected to travel around both Norfolk and Suffolk
Treat adolescents under 18 years of age who reside in either Norfolk or Suffolk. Any exceptions will be reviewed on an individual case basis
Treat CYP at home or in a ‘Place of Safety’ and identified as potentially needing admission to CAMHS in-patient provision. This may be young people either known, or not known to specialist mental health services
Undertake individualised risk assessments taking into account strengths/needs of CYP including safeguarding risk assessments and develop individualised programmes of care in coproduction with the CYP, parent/carer and existing professional networks.
Support the process of safe discharge planning with other partnership agencies to ensure that the mental health needs of the CYP have been addressed appropriately and that the CYP has been offered a range of treatment modalities and therapeutic interventions according to their care pathway, prior to the return to the care of their Lead Care Professional.
Deliver training with/to service users, significant others, families, other professionals, and agencies.
Offer person-centred care around the clinical need and risks. Alongside their core team and professionals assessments to target reduction and or prevention of admission.
CATAT will look at treatment, therapeutic work within a community setting, which offers the safest least restrictive option for the young person. The amount of contact the team has with the young person will depend on assessed clinical needs.
CATAT will work jointly with other professionals involved in individual care packages alongside joint interventions core teams/other health services.
CATAT will work with young people and offer a 6-week review. If a longer period of additional support by CATAT is assessed as appropriate, CATAT will continue therapeutic interventions.
Discharge planning from CATAT will evidence a reduction in the additional support/therapeutic interventions which will include a handover period to make a seamless transition of care, to aid a safe and supportive discharge.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

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.