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About the Trust

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.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

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.

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

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

The post holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS Service (formally
CAMHS/ Springleigh Child & family Therapy Services) and will be based within the
YJS. This post will be focused on early intervention and ensuring that groups of
vulnerable children and young people have access to mental health advice and
support. The post holder is responsible for providing mental health assessments
and brief psychotherapeutic interventions and assisting in navigating local mental
health systems for children and young people who are involved with the YJS. The
role will also involve providing advice, training and consultation to other members of
YJS, parent (s) / carer (s) and other agencies. The post will provide a close link
between CAMHS and YJS.

Main duties of the job

To ensure high quality mental health assessment of children and young people
referred to YJS.
• To identify the need for assessment through liaison with the Police, Courts,
Probation, YJS, CAMHS and other appropriate agencies for young offenders who
may also be experiencing mental health issues.
• To provide access to a range of quality psychotherapeutic interventions in
accordance with individual assessed need. This will include the assessment,
planning, implementation and evaluation of a variety of therapeutic approaches
either alone or as a member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT).
• To deliver highly specialised and therapeutic input to children and young people
referred to the team.
• Work as a co-therapist where appropriate with other members of the MDT.
• To be responsible for and manage a defined complex caseload and undertake
case management responsibilities within the caseload

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To identify and develop strategies to manage risk to the child / young person and
others in line with Pennine Care and CAMHS and YJS procedures and protocols.
• To liaise closely with a wide range of agencies regarding individual care
packages and to promote awareness of child and adolescent mental health
issues within these agencies.
• Undertake liaison and joint work with other agencies.
• To act as appropriate adult to children / young people who have offended and
who may also have a mental health issue.
• To provide information around young offenders to the court as necessary and to
attend court in order to provide support to the young person.
• To provide assessments to those young people who may need to be diverted out
of the criminal justice system and present those cases at the Mentally Vulnerable
Offenders Panel.
• To give advice and support to the manager of the Youth Justice Service in terms
of the development of services to meet the mental health needs of young
offenders.
• To provide consultation and training on a wide range of children / young people's
emotional health and well-being issues to professionals from a range of services
including GP's, Early Help and Primary Care Services, Adult Mental Health
Services, Social Care and Education Services.
• To engage in and deliver managerial and clinical supervision, including with
appropriate consent, recording and reviewing of live clinical work.
• Ensure collection of relevant information required by Pennine Care NHS
Foundation Trust.
• To routinely monitor effectiveness of clinical work by the use of Routine Outcome
Measures (ROM) and where outcomes are not improving for children, young
people and families to engage in clinical review via peer review meetings and
supervision.
• To contribute to the YJS duty rota and to work flexibly (including occasional
weekends).

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Professional qualifications relevant to work in child and adolescent mental health e.g. nursing, social work clinical psychology to masters level or equivalent experience.
Specialist post qualification training in psychological therapy with children and families to at least equivalent of a post graduate diploma level
Accreditation with the appropriate accrediting bodies governing the specific modality (e.g. BABCP, IY)

Desirable criteria

Additional post graduate qualifications relevant to child mental health
Additional accredited training

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with children, young people who have been involved with the youth justice system.
Experience of working with children, young people and their families presenting with mental health concerns / problems
Experience of working in a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) setting
Managing a caseload
Experience of providing evidence based psychological therapy to children and young people and their families
Experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members
Experience of using ROM
Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
Experience in developing formulations
Significant experience working in a multi-agency context

Desirable criteria

Working in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Theoretical approach and understanding child and young people's mental health and development
Knowledge of relevant legislation and government policy relating to children and young people's mental health
Child protection knowledge and practice
Specific theoretical knowledge related to therapeutic speciality
Understanding of principles and methods of clinical audit research and service evaluation
Understanding of current multi-agency landscape including public sector reform

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

Ability to work in partnership with child, young peoples, parent's / carers, colleagues and other agencies
Good standards of Verbal and written skills
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing complex and sensitive information to children, young people and families/carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Ability to work in MDT
Ability to relate relevant theory to practice
Ability to work autonomously and to use initiative
Organisational, time management, report writing and record keeping skills
IT skills
Ability to manage change and motivate staff
Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with children and young people within own personal and professional development.
Ability to work under pressure

Desirable criteria

Service development or Project management skills

Work Related Circumstances

Essential criteria

Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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

Job Description (PDF, 112.4KB)
Person Specification (PDF, 151.3KB)
Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)

Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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