Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CEDS

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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:

1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. 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

Our Specialist Community Eating Disorder Service continues to expand, and we are really excited to invite applications from motivated and experienced practitioners to join our dynamic MDT. We have positions in both our Bury and Stockport based hubs.

With an excellent reputation and strong links to CAMHS and paediatric teams across the GM network, our existing and well-established eating disorder team is developing a new ARFID treatment pathway and we are seeking additional team members to join us in progressing this workstream.

The new pathway will enhance our existing provision for young people aged 8-18 with a primary eating disorder, who live in the boroughs of Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide specialist assessment of young people with eating disorders and offer a wide range of psycho-therapeutic evidenced based interventions.

As Band 7 practitioners, the post holders will be expected to provide professional clinical supervision and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other practitioners, as well as contribute to the leadership of the service under the direction of the senior management team.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to delivering the best possible care and treatment for our patients. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values, and by doing so will make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification to support your application for this post which highlight in detail the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application. Essentially though, you need to...

• Have qualifications or experience to masters level in any relevant discipline e.g. nursing, social work, clinical psychology or occupational therapy.
• Have experience/training in an additional therapeutic modality - motivational interviewing/CBT or a willingness to work towards.
• Have an interest/passion for improving life experience for young people and families.
• Have substantial experience of working with children, adolescents and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties, family relationship problems including experience of working with young people with eating disorders.
• Enjoy working in a MDT setting.
• Have experience of managing a caseload and associated professional activities under supervision.
• Have experience of providing evidence based psychological therapy to children and adolescents.
• Have experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members.
• Have experience of using ROMs.
• Have experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
• Have experience in developing formulations.

Person specification

Qualification / experience

Essential criteria

• Qualifications and experience to Masters Level in any relevant discipline e.g. nursing, social work, clinical psychology or occupational therapy
• Experience/ training in motivational interviewing/ CBT or willingness to work towards

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial experience of working with children, adolescents and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties inc family relationship problems, including experience of working with young people with eating disorders
• Experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members
• Experience of providing evidence based psychological therapy to children and adolescents
• Experience in developing formulations

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate evidence of up to date knowledge of eating disorders and its application to children and young people
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and government policy relating to children's mental health
• Specific theoretical knowledge related to therapeutic speciality

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, 125.4KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 228.0KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
• Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pack (PDF, 588.9KB)
• Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)