Key Result Areas:

The postholder will:

• Work in partnership to deliver a range of evidence-based mental health interventions with children and young people (CYP) as well as some parent-led interventions.
• Facilitate evidence-based group interventions with CYP and/or parents.
• Offer specialist mental health-based consultation, advice and guidance with professionals.
• Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
• Support clinical staff to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs as well as psychological formulation.
• Promote overall access to Kirklees MHST where appropriate.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with children, young people and their families and implement evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
• Plan and organise interventions ensuring that reviews are held within the required time frames.
• Ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team, their colleagues, service users and appropriate others are informed/updated of changes involving current care plans, progress, mental state, and psychosocial factors in line with best practice.
• Liaise with and advise CYP and families, local authority and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies including children's safeguarding as necessary.
• Communicate sensitive information to carers and relatives.
• Use a range of inclusive communication styles and channels as appropriate to the task.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or patients in treatment, where appropriate.
• Care plan and manage own caseload.
• Maintain accurate written records on the electronic record system of the Trust.
• Undertake mental health assessments, with an agreed plan of action and/or care and low moderate intervention.
• Set and monitor Goal Based Outcomes with CYP/parents.
• Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
• Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence-based and routine outcome measures.

For Full Job Description, Please See Attached Supporting Documents.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Commitment to multi-agency approach.
• Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
• Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
• Clarity of decision making.
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
• Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
• Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
• To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members.
• A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

Training

• Experience delivering training to a diverse audience (or group work).

Special Knowledge & Skills

• A good understanding of evidence-based, low intensity interventions for mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• An understanding of mental health and wellbeing support within community settings.
• Understanding of safeguarding responsibilities and the importance of multi-agency work for children and families in the community.
• Understanding of CYP-IAPT principles including the use of evidence-based therapies and Routine Outcome Measures.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with children/young people of all ages experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
• Ability to work effectively with partner services & external partners to promote and adapt change processes.
• Good verbal and communication skills.
• Ability to manage own caseload.
• Good negotiation skills, and problem-solving skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
• IT skills.
• Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.

Desirable

• A good understanding of the green paper initiative and the function of a MHST.

Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people and their carers in a mental health or community setting.
• Experience of working in Primary Care/MHST Services / or CAMHS.
• Experience of managing a case-load of children and young people with a range of moderate mental health needs.
• Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
• Experience of delivering evidence-based psychological therapy e.g. CBT.
• Experience of working with parents (or with adults).
• Experience of working in or in conjunction with an educational setting.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
• Experience working within Early Intervention and Prevention Services.
• Experience of service delivery via digital platform.

Qualifications

• Registered Wellbeing Practitioner (Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP), Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) & Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
• or Registered mental health practitioner (NMC, HCPC)
• or Registered social worker
• or KSA equivalent accreditation (www.babcp.com/Accreditation/Provisional-Accreditation/Knowledge-Skills-and-Attitudes).

Desirable

• Successful completion of the CYP-IAPT CBT/EMHP supervisor training or willing to undertake.

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
• A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Folly Hall Mills

St Thomas Road

Huddersfield

Kirklees

HD1 3LT

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)