Job summary
- Main area
- B7 Senior Mental Health Clinician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time, 37.5hrs per week
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 9-5 excluding bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 325-6404174-CYPS
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 1st Floor Dominion House
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/07/2024 08:00
Employer heading
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Senior Mental Health Clinician-Access and Advice Team
NHS AfC: Band 7
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an additional full time Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker in our Access and Advice Team as a band 7 Senior Mental Health Clinician. You will need to be registered with your governing body and have CAMHS or relevant Mental Health experience.
This team oversees the front door to our Children and Young People's Services, triaging referrals, providing assessments, delivering treatment with both individual and group work being offered to our children, young people and their families. This is an exciting opportunity to working closely with our CYPS Team (formally CAMHS), as our Getting More Help Team, and part of our i-THRIVE transformation work.
We are looking for a senior Mental Health Practitioner that shares our enthusiasm, passion and commitment to work alongside colleagues to deliver a good quality timely service to young people and families in Surrey, in collaboration with a strong supportive leadership team.
Main duties of the job
To evaluate and make decisions on suitability of new referrals.
Assess clients for suitability for interventions.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and evaluation of clients in line with the service.
Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties and develop carefully tailored interventions.
Attend multi-disciplinary/Team meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals individuals, voluntary agencies regarding service matters related to the practice and delivery of specific agreed therapeutic modalities and service provision.
Demonstrate Clinical Leadership and lead clinical discussions and co-ordinate day to day clinical activity
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Home Working Contract Only unless the needs of service require office based duties(if required will be discussed and arranged) - Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or diploma level qualification in Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy
- Professional and current Registration associated with core qualification
- Clinically relevant knowledge acquired through post of qualifying training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant level of experience of working with children and families, including work with child mental health needs.
- Experience of strategic development, and, in particular, development of interagency projects
- Ability to identify opportunities for service development, improvement and expansion
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
- Paa Kwesi Otchere
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07985112643
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