Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 0 hours per week
- Job ref
- 448-TSS-6772549
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 3 Cringleford Business Centre
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/12/2024
Employer heading
BANK Senior Mental Health Assistant Practitioner
Band 5
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to support our innovative team in the next phase of its development. We are looking for Senior Assistant Practitioners – Mental Health (band 5) to join our BANK. To help support the substantive team, with the day-to-day advice and signposting of referrals made to the service and the increased volume of referrals we are receiving.
The Advice, Support and Access service launched 6 months ago and provides a single point of referral for mental health support for the Norfolk and Waveney region for children and young people aged 0 up to 25 years.
The Mental Health access team works within the wider offer of the Just One Number service, a single point of access for the Health Child Service and the Speech and Language Therapy, this provides us with a huge array of expertise and a proven track record of providing excellent and timely interventions, our work is underpinned by Just One Norfolk web site, our evidence based digital support and resources.
We are looking to cover 8am until 6pm (shifts are 8am-4pm and 10am-6pm) Monday to Friday, shifts will be allocated as the demand of service dictates.
Main duties of the job
Our aim is to find the right support, the right resources and the right services for our young people.
This offers the right candidate an opportunity to hone skills in the triage of mental health referrals, explore and link with other statutory and non-statutory services, help to identify advice and guidance for young people and their parents and work with a dedicated dynamic and supportive team. We are looking for individuals with experience of working within Mental Health services and with children/ young people’s mental health.
The post holder will be a registered Practitioner and provide clinical expertise to allow the review, information gathering and triaging of mental health referrals for children, adolescents, and young people (0-25) within Norfolk and Waveney at the Single Point of Access – Just One Number (JON). They will also provide advice, guidance, and support to people with mental health care needs via telephone and other forms of digital technology.
Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To have clinical expertise in the mental and emotional health needs of children, young people, and their families, (covering 0-25 years of age) and be able to elicit information from professionals, carers and young people to support full assessments via telephone or video call which enable timely clinical decisions to be made.
To work effectively with other members of the skill mix team within JON, attending and supporting teaching and clinical supervision in order to develop needs-led, evidence-based care that supports local and national priorities and policies as well as relevant clinical guidelines."
To have a robust understanding of local emotional health provision and be able to give children, young people and their families and referrers appropriate advice and guidance and as needed make appropriate referrals and support colleagues to make referrals to the appropriate service.
To have knowledge of child and young people’s mental health needs and local services. This will involve information gathering, assessment (including risk assessment) and care planning, with children, young people, parents, teachers and being an active link for other stakeholders such as schools, GPs, mental health, and voluntary sector organisations.
To develop skills and confidence to support colleagues within Just One Number, especially in understanding of current mental health need, risk and care planning.
To develop skills to contribute to production and maintenance of digital resources on Just One Norfolk and promotion of these within JON and with other stakeholders – allowing the identification of appropriate use of self-help material and understanding when further clinical assessment is indicated.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Degree in relevant area of study and relevant experience of working in a Mental Health field
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Degree in Mental Health
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working with children and young adults with mental health needs
- Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management
- Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
Desirable criteria
- Undertaking a clinical role including multi-disciplinary working, safeguarding, undertaking complex assessments, planning, and evaluating care packages, and responsibility for the management of a caseload
- Partnership Working
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to work regularly unsupervised
- Risk assessment knowledge and skills
- Competent keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
Desirable criteria
- Clinical/Safeguarding risk assessment skills
- Experience of navigating service users to other services and resources.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Siwsan Jones
- Job title
- Just One Number - Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 300 0123
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