Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 310-CYPF-6913279
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University of Cambridge Student Services
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
UCARMHSS Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced, innovative, and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioners to join our exciting new Universities of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Mental Health Student Service (UCARMHSS) pilot which is set to launch in 2025.
This new service will offer multiple pathways: psychiatry, psychology, and care coordination, allowing students to access tailored interventions. The goal is to improve access to support for students' mental health, inform about available support, and guide them in managing their mental health.
Key features of the service include:
• A focus on student needs rather than diagnosis, with every referral undergoing thorough triage and, where necessary, formulation assessments.
• Proactive support to help students succeed academically and socially at university.
• Flexible access to services, with face-to-face, telephone, video, and other online options available to meet individual preferences.
• Comprehensive care coordination, encompassing assessment, case management, self-management support, and liaison with university services.
Main duties of the job
To provide evidence-based, specialist interventions to university students attached to Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To work as an integral member of the UCARMHSS Team, providing mental health assessments and formulations, through information gathering and analysis, including the use of routine outcome measures and within bio-psychosocial models of mental health.
2. To provide support to a diverse population that can present with complex mental health needs whilst maintaining high functioning.
3. To actively liaise with students’ supports which may be outside of the CPFT catchment area.
4. To utilise specialist knowledge and evidence-based models of mental health to make decisions about a student’s mental health needs.
5. To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in students referred to the service.
6. To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based interventions.
7. To evaluate and care plan, considering individual, contextual and social factors.
8. To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice and care planning.
9. To utilise individual, group and peer supervision to support assessments, care planning and decision making.
10. To participate in the team’s use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across the directorate.
The UCARMHSS service will be hosted at the University of Cambridge Student Services Centre (SSC). The SSC is home to many student-serving departments across the University, including UCARMHSS. The SSC is in Cambridge city centre (Bene’t Street, New Museums Site, Cambridge, CB2 3PT) and is marked on this University map. The service operates on the 3rd floor of the building, alongside the Mental Health Advice Service (MHAS), the University Counselling Service (UCS), the Postgraduate Wellbeing Service (PWS) and the Harassment and Violence Support Service (HVSS).
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate training in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification experience of assessments, care planning and interventions with young people or adults.
- Experience of undertaking mental health risk assessments and risk management with adults and young people
Desirable criteria
- Working towards agreed targets, demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Willingness and ability to participate as an independent practitioner in assessments.
- Evidence of ability to keep clear and accurate clinical records.
- Evidence of ability to exercise a high level of judgement and decision making.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to assess and treat young people and adults with developmental disorder, making reasonable adjustments where needed.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Trust’s and Local Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Knowledge and understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Maxwell
- Job title
- Interim Deputy General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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