Senior Mental Health Practitioner/ Team Manager

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Job overview

Job Summary

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner with a core professional registration (Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy) to work within an exciting new service development within Pennine Care. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working with children and young people and working innovatively across pathways and traditional boundaries to ensure that young people get the right care, from the right clinician/team, at the right time and in the right place in order to improve their outcomes and the families/carers experience of mental health support.

We are looking for an individual with significant clinical and management experience, preferably within CAMHS to lead a team whilst also taking the lead of case management with high level complexity cases.

This is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to work as a Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner offering assessment, support, signposting and brief therapeutic intervention where appropriate to young people who required crisis support within our Children and Young People Crisis Team which includes Home Treatment, Rapid Response and Paediatric assessment pathways within the Pennine Care footprint.

Main duties of the job

You will work along side the other senior mental health practitioners in the team to be in a team leader role whilst also working clinically within the team including the duty role. Please see the attached Job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

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.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Overview and not an extensive list. Please see full JD/PS attached

Staffing / Management
• To attend and chair team, clinical, business and other meetings as required.
• Presenting findings and service evaluation at conferences and elsewhere in relation to the crisis care pathway
• Management of staff
• To ensure that safe and effective pathways are in place to facilitate the
movement of CYP through services, including the identification and reporting of deficits within service provision
• Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage stakeholders within all sectors, working on a variety of topics
• Proactively involve stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation and or other appropriate mechanisms

Clinical and Professional
• Deliver community-based assessment, de-escalation and therapeutic
interventions (including risk reduction interventions) when children and young people are presenting in crisis or require enhanced support in the community
• Deliver hospital-based assessments and interventions where a young person has been admitted to a paediatric ward to try and facilitate discharge with appropriate community care and support
• Work with young people to offer Early Supported Discharge from hospital-based settings including specialist inpatient mental health settings.
• Support families to offer containment and care during periods of high expressed emotion and crisis
• Work intensively with CYP and those who care for them under a variety of different crisis pathways and lengths of intervention under supervision of qualified mental health professionals
• Provide, or provide access to, a range of quality psychotherapeutic interventions in accordance with CYP assessed needs.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant Core Professional qualification in mental health or social care plus evidence of continued professional development in a CAMHS related area • Educated to masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Evidence of professional registration and continued professional development
• Educated to masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.

Desirable criteria

• Training in one or more additional specialist areas of practice including children and young people

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working as a senior clinician in clinical settings which meet the core competencies of the post
• Substantial experience of risk assessment and risk management
• Experience of managing complex cases within a mental health or social care service
• An extensive range of clinical experience within the speciality or within a care pathway
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' care and treatment.
• Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life span and presenting with the full range of severity.
• Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate the impact of their clinical practice
• Experience of children and young people's inpatient mental health care
• Skills in service evaluations and service relevant research

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• High level of working knowledge of the policy guidance and legislation
• Knowledge of crisis and risk management procedures
• Thorough knowledge of risk assessment and risk reduction strategies
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health, including the Mental Health Act and issues of capacity and consent
• Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures and responsibilities
• Sound knowledge of family interventions to boost resilience and improve

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge in the practice of specialist therapies in Children and Young People within a stepped model of care
• Understanding of the acuity and demands of CYP crisis services
• An understanding of evidenced based psychological therapies from a range of modalities, including systemic working

skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling good working relationships with others across professional boundaries
• Able to provide and receive highly complex sensitive information and negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult issues. Ability to present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of conflicting priorities and agendas.
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own work load.
• Willingness to work flexibly including non-social hours
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own work load.
• Substantial experience delivering focused evidence based interventions such as CBT, Problem Solving, Family Interventions and Parenting
• Belief in the child centred, needs led, recovery focused values base of the service
• Willingness to participate in duty and on call rotas

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Hints and tips for completing your application can be found here.

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

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.
• 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.
• 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 hiring managers directly.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

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, 341.1KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 296.5KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)