Job summary
Employer heading
PCAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - Children and Young People
Band 6
We encourage applications from those who consider themselves to have a disability and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Services for children, young people and families within Gwent are currently undergoing exciting transformation and have benefited from significant recent investment and newly developed services. As a clinician within our service you will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of these developments, including supporting the embedding of our Single Point of Access for Children's emotional Wellbeing (SPACE-Wellbeing) Panel.
Main duties of the job
An opportunity has arisen for someone with knowledge and experience of working with children and young people's mental health to join the Primary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service as a Practitioner. In order to apply for this post one of the following qualifications/registrations is essential: Registered Nurse - Mental Health, Registered Nurse- Learning Disabilities, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Practitioner Psychologist.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- Additional qualifications including CYP related
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with CYP and families, assessment, delivery of therapeutic intervention, leading change
Desirable criteria
- Supervision,training and consultation,groupwork
Skills
Essential criteria
- Assessment, appropriate therapeutic intervention,engagement, team working
Desirable criteria
- Welsh speaker
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- CYP presentationsof mental health and behavioural issues, safeguarding legislation, evidence base
Desirable criteria
- Mental health legislation
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Powell
- Job title
- Clinical Operational Manager PCAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 749519
- Additional information
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