Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Senior Mental Health Practitioner
About the Role
Pennine Care are proud to be developing our clinical offer for Cared For Children and Care Leavers, in conjunction with our local authority partners and colleagues across the Greater Manchester area. We aspire to provide our cared for children with high quality, trauma-informed services, and reduce the disadvantages faced by children when moving between boroughs.
Our borough based Senior Mental Health Practitioners will each be supported by a Specialist Principal Clinical Psychologist, and have close links with their local CAMHS team. They will join the wider Cared For and Care Leavers clinical team across the five boroughs of the Pennine Care footprint, led by Consultant Clinical Psychologists, with access to specialist expertise from across the CAMHS clinical hub, including Speech and Language Therapy expertise and DDP specialist supervision.
This is an exciting time to join the Cared For and Care Leavers Pathway, as we develop our shared service culture and refine our clinical offer to support the mental health and wellbeing needs of our cared for children and their carers. We are seeking passionate and experienced CAMHS nurses and social workers who are ready to develop their specialist skills as Senior Mental Health Practitioners for this vulnerable group.
Responsibilities
Our post-holders will provide highly specialist advice and consultation to social workers and other professionals around the needs of children in care; will facilitate direct and indirect assessments and therapeutic interventions with cared for children and their parents or carers (including foster carers and family and friends carers), support the development and delivery of training and reflective practice and facilitate the clinical supervision of other professionals to undertake therapeutic interventions. Relevant training and CPD opportunities will be considered to facilitate aspects of the role and service provision. The support, development and well-being of our workforce are the foundations on which we continue to develop services to ensure children and young people receive optimal care.
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About Us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
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Benefits
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Kate Danvers
- Job title: PCFT Strategic Lead for Cared For Children
- Email address: kate.danvers@nhs.net
To find out more, please contact:
- Dr Kate Danvers, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Trust-wide Strategic Lead for Cared for and Care Leavers Pathway kate.danvers@nhs.net
- Dr Gordon Knowles, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Crisis Service and Cared For Children gordon.knowles@nhs.net
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