Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join the new Single Point of Access in West Sussex. The postholder will take a lead on developing partnership working between SPoA and the Integrated Front Door. Ensuring smooth pathways and transitions for young people who are referred into SPoA. You will be based with the SPoA team in Worthing but it is expected you wills spend some of your time located with the Integrated Front Door in Horsham

The SPOA is designed for children, young people, their families, carers and relevant professionals to ensure that they can access the most appropriate emotional wellbeing, mental health support and intervention which meets their needs at the earliest possible stage and with the minimum delay.

The SPOA aims:

An integrated aligned and co-ordinated service is in place
More CYP have access to appropriate mental health services first time
More CYP have positive experiences of care and support
Time taken to receive treatment and support is reduced
Improved data collection and evaluation of CYP's outcome

Main duties of the job

To take a leadership role in developing partnership working between SPOA and the Integrated Front Door
To provide clear pathways between SPOA and IFD and participate in relevant meetings between agencies
Offer high quality screening of referrals, discussing with referrers as required and ensuring they receive an appropriate and clinically sound response.
To engage with young people and their families to undertake risk assessments where appropriate and ensure appropriate signposting for referrals, with clear written responses containing a rationale for the decision,
To liaise with agencies receiving referrals from SPOA, identify opportunities for support whilst waiting for the referral to be processed and respond to any queries or concerns from professionals / parents
To ensure clinical risk is managed within the SPOA and concerns are escalated appropriately

To decide on an appropriate course of action with the professionals involved, providing advice, support and knowledge of appropriate resources for the emotional wellbeing of children, young people and their families
To demonstrate awareness and knowledge of the different role applications of the SPOA in a number of contexts, and skills to maintain boundaries, accountability and responsibilities
To work alongside the Team Lead and SPoA manager to demonstrate knowledge and skills to plan and critically evaluate SPOA development to meet the mental health needs of children and young people

About us

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across West and East Sussex and Brighton & Hove, and for children and young people in Hampshire.

West Sussex CAMHS services build on CYP-IAPT learning. Users of our services help shape continuing service transformation with their lived experience.

Supported by our Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs), we work to put research, innovation and learning into practice. We offer a career, not just a job, in a team and a Trust committed to delivering the best possible care to the community and to supporting the wellbeing of our staff, who are our greatest asset.

Working in Sussex:

Travel easily between coast and stunning countryside
Easy access to Brighton, London, Gatwick and Heathrow

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Date posted

15 May 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

354-CS-21203-A

Job locations

Southdown - Swandean

Arundel Road

Worthing

BN13 3EP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Skills and experience in screening referrals is desirable.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency SPOA team ensuring that referrals are screened swiftly and referrers are contacted and informed of referral outcomes.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Skills and experience in screening referrals is desirable.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency SPOA team ensuring that referrals are screened swiftly and referrers are contacted and informed of referral outcomes.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

Professional registered qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health
Evidence of clinical training in a field relevant to the post eg brief psychotherapy, solution focused approaches, cognitive behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing, or systemic therapy

EXPERIENCE

Essential

Highly specialist knowledge of child and adolescent mental health.
Significant level of experience of working with children and families, including work with child mental health needs.
To be able to recognise in children and young people a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills to safeguard and protect children and young people's welfare in line with the Children Act 2004 requirements
Demonstrate skills to assess risk using already established assessment tools
Demonstrate knowledge and skills for systemic assessment of risk factors in the environment and skills to develop a range of strategies to address identified risk
Demonstrate knowledge and skills for development of protocols with families and other staff / practitioners to manage risk
Demonstrate knowledge, skills and attitude to promote safety for themselves and others
Experience of mental health assessment and implementation of arrange of evidence based therapeutic interventions.
Working knowledge of Health, Social and Caring Services, Education and the Voluntary Sector, together with the relevant legislation regarding both children and mental health
Experience of working in partnership with other agencies, and multi-disciplinary working
Ability to work in partnership with children and families
Qualities essential to clinical practice, including, for example, respect, genuineness, empathy, personal integrity

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

Professional registered qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health
Evidence of clinical training in a field relevant to the post eg brief psychotherapy, solution focused approaches, cognitive behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing, or systemic therapy

EXPERIENCE

Essential

Highly specialist knowledge of child and adolescent mental health.
Significant level of experience of working with children and families, including work with child mental health needs.
To be able to recognise in children and young people a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills to safeguard and protect children and young people's welfare in line with the Children Act 2004 requirements
Demonstrate skills to assess risk using already established assessment tools
Demonstrate knowledge and skills for systemic assessment of risk factors in the environment and skills to develop a range of strategies to address identified risk
Demonstrate knowledge and skills for development of protocols with families and other staff / practitioners to manage risk
Demonstrate knowledge, skills and attitude to promote safety for themselves and others
Experience of mental health assessment and implementation of arrange of evidence based therapeutic interventions.
Working knowledge of Health, Social and Caring Services, Education and the Voluntary Sector, together with the relevant legislation regarding both children and mental health
Experience of working in partnership with other agencies, and multi-disciplinary working
Ability to work in partnership with children and families
Qualities essential to clinical practice, including, for example, respect, genuineness, empathy, personal integrity

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.