Senior Mental Health Practitioner PRU/Single Point of Access

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a range of high quality interventions appropriate to the child or young person's needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, evidence based interventions. Based with the PRU taskforce to increase access to CAMHS assessment/intervention for young people who attend the alternative provision and experience barriers to accessing CAMHS. The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge base to deliver clinical aspects of the role in a multi-disciplinary team setting and will be competent to do this work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines. This post entails teaching and supervisory duties to other professionals and junior staff and/or students and regular consultation to the wider children's service. The post holder is also expected to promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health THRIVE Framework.

This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time spent in clinical practice, with flexibility to travel across the city as part of the PRU outreach approach to engaging young people and families.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• Qualification and Professional Registration

Desirable criteria

• Training in therapeutic modality, CBT, EMDR, ADOS

Essential

Essential criteria

• People with mental health difficulties, managing complex caseloads & distressing & emotional circs.

Essential

Essential criteria

• Experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding.

Desirable criteria

• Delivery of group work and workshops.

Essential

Essential criteria

• Delivering evidence-based practice & demonstrate how it influences clinical practice.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of delivering training.

Essential

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with children & young people with autism &social communication difficulties.

Essential

Essential criteria

• Relevant experience & training in multi-disciplinary assessments of ASD in children and adolescents.

Essential

Essential criteria

• Diverse communities & individuals with complex needs, dual diagnoses, disabilities & safeguarding.

Essential

Essential criteria

• Developing & providing assessments, formulations, & care plans & effective use of ROMS.

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, 432.6KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 400.6KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 920.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 731.5KB)