Young Adult (18 to 25) Senior Mental Health Practitioner

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a young adult ( 18-25) Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This is a newly developed post, created to enhance existing pathways into adult mental health services for young people. The post holder will work alongside the adult Mental Health and Wellness Teams providing locality based care within the London Borough of Redbridge.

The post holder will require vision and drive to support and implement new ways of working to shape transition care pathways in supporting young adults in preparing for adulthood. The newly created role will be pivotal in shaping the care pathway from children services to adult services, to ensure high quality, timely, accessible , evidence based service and improving service user outcomes.

The post holder is required to be able to take leadership responsibility of the pathway.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Main duties of the job

They will be a qualified practitioner and fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC or Social Work England).

The post-holder will provide clinical leadership to the Young People and Adult Mental Health Professionals working in the care pathway across children and adult mental health services from aged 18 to 25 years.

They will be responsible for assessment, intervention and systematic outcome measurement in the care pathway for this service user group.

They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it and who use the care pathway transitioning from children services to adult services

The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based interventions by staff.

The post-holder will ensure that there are no delays in young people accessing timely adult services, either as new referrals or for those transitions from CAMHS.

The post holder will have good working relationship with all the three mental health and wellness team in Redbridge including EIP to ensure patient recovery journey and transitioning is smooth and safe.

The post holder will have good working relationship with the Redbridge MH&WT referral coordinator and attending referral meetings when they can.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist care pathway for young people aged 18-25 with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families, providing and ensuring the provision of multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention.
2. To undertake a range of generic clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.
3. To provide consultation on care pathway cases to other multi-disciplinary staff within CAMHS and Adult Mental Health.
4. To contribute to audit and research.
5. To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring.
6. To work in professional practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework for mental health in line with Trust's policies and procedures
7. To use where appropriate, an assertive outreach approach to minimise the risk of YP/YA falling between services
8. To support client within the pathway with crisis support though ICAH/HTT and inpatient ward as appropriate.
9. To carry caseload of clients and care coordinate/key work.

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,108 and a maximum payment of £5,177 per annum).

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A professional qualification in a core profession and registration with the associated professional body e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker,
• Evidence of post registration training

Demonstation of Trust values

Essential criteria

• Understanding and application of trust 5 P's

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with young adults with Mental Health problems in a variety of community settings
• experience of working with server and enduring mental health needs, co- morbidities and complex emotional needs
• Experience of working therapeutically with parents/ carers / families of young people with complex mental health problmes
• experience of using observations to contribute to assessments of young people
• Experience of carrying out generic assessments with other colleagues in the MDT
• Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with young people.
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
• Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies
• Experience of care coordinating/Key working

Desirable criteria

• Experience of taking leadership role/responsibility

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• An awareness of relevant legislation and policy guidance
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of relevant intervention in mental health.
• Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
• Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings.
• Knowledge of electronic record systems, ie Rio

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the Borough
• Access to a car and able to drive

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good IT Skills across the office suite
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to service users, which give rise to psychological distress.
• Highly developed ability to integrate complex information into a coherent formulation
• Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, and sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
• Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
• Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manger as relevant
• Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines
• Ability to engage and work professionally with other MDT
• Having the right and good attitude to work and care delivery
• Flexible, engaging and being a team player

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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

• 18-25 JD and personal Spec (PDF, 382.4KB)
• 18-25 JD and personal Spec (PDF, 382.4KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)