Senior Mental Health Practitioner/Creative Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and responsibilities:

To support the wider staff team with day-to-day risk and clinical support where required.

To support the service with triaging referrals and assessment of CYP (Children & Young People) referrals.

Supporting with more information calls to CYP, professionals and families where required.

To complete comprehensive assessments using the My Story approach taking into account the childs individuals needs and experience.

To deliver creative short-term therapeutic interventions (121 and group) to children and young people, working independently which may, at times, mean lone working.

Providing safeguarding, safety plans, support/signposting for CYP who are showing signs of risk to self; via self-harm and/or suicidal ideation.

To develop links to other agencies and services and have a good understanding of local services for signposting, safeguarding and onward referrals.

Provide detailed and timely record keeping of YP risk and support given to CYP.

To be able to use risk assessments to understand YP level of risk.

Providing safeguarding, safety plans, support/signposting for CYP who are showing signs of risk to self; via self-harm and/or suicidal ideation.

To develop links to other agencies and services and have a good understanding of local services for signposting, safeguarding and onward referrals.

Provide detailed and timely record keeping of YP risk and support given to CYP.

Delivering professional training where required.

Supporting with clinical record audits where required.

To facilitate peer support with and for children and young people.

To maintain confidential case notes and records in a timely manner ensuring that these are stored securely using the specified case management systems.

To support/cover other senior practitioners with tasks to support the team where required.

Communication

Be able to communicate and engage with children and young people appropriate to individual needs.

Ensure young people feel listened to, feel in control, and are respected.

To be able to confidently liaise with parents of CYP presenting with risk to support minimisation of harm to the YP.

The ability to communicate sensitively and compassionately with CYP and parents.

Skills & Competencies required:

An experienced and qualified creative therapist used to a fast-paced environment.

Experienced in working with children and young people across early intervention / mental health settings and experienced in engaging the whole family.

Confident in supporting / offering interventions to children and young people presenting mild to moderate risk behaviours.

Able to build strong therapeutic relationships in a short period of time.

Positive and proactive to achieve the highest standards and outcomes in engagement with children, young people, their parent/carers and professionals.

Adept in communication and confident communicating with CYP, their parents/carers and health professionals.

Open, respectful, committed to equality and inclusiveness and motivated by new ideas and perspectives.

A team player.

Be able to work independently using initiative and problem-solving skills to ensure best outcomes for YP.

Be able to manage own diary effectively.

Standard Information

Information Governance

Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.

The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

The postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.

Health & Safety

Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.

Safeguarding is Everyones Business

ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABLs employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABLs safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.

Smoke Free

ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.

Training

The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.

The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.

Equality, Diversity & Human Rights

It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate 2 years post-qualification experience in a creative therapist role.
• Confident in triage and assessment of CYP, supporting / offering interventions to children and young people presenting mild to moderate risk behaviours.
• Knowledge of safety factors in management of self-harming behaviours and/or suicidal ideation.
• Knowledge of development in CYP, family development and of transitions
• Experienced in managing a caseload.
• Ability to recognise and respond to concerns about child protection and safeguarding.
• Ability to make use of supervision.
• Up to date knowledge of CYP emotional wellbeing / early mental health clinical practice and support for parents/carers.

Desirable

• Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place to demonstrate clinical outcomes.
• Experience in quality improvement measures.
• Experience of delivering groups to CYP and parents.
• Experience in delivering training and workshops to CYP and parents / carers.
• Experience in delivering training to professionals.
• Experience in running peer support groups. Knowledge of audit and evaluation methodology.
• Minimum of 1-year experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team environment

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with a recognised National Body (including HCPC, NMC, BACP, BABCP BASW, TRA).

Desirable

• Professional qualification and background in one of the following areas: , Counselling Psychologist, Psychotherapists, Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker.
• Qualified/Experience to provide regular clinical supervision to counselling team.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

ABL Health Ltd

Address

Suite 1 The Willows Ransom Wood Business Park

Mansfield

NG21 0HJ

Employer's website

https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)