Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
The litmus test of any local mental health system is how it responds in a crisis (Future in Mind 2015)
Come and join our forward thinking and innovative CAMHS Crisis Intervention & Home Treatment Team. Be part of a pro-active, responsive and friendly service and make a difference to Children and young people’s lives at point of mental health crisis.
We are Black Country wide service consisting of 4 locality teams. The teams consist of mental health, learning disability and children’s nurses as well as social workers, Consultant psychiatrists and clinical fellow’s. We have an IAPT practitioner, youth worker, STR worker and each team has a Barnardos keyworker working with us to make up a fantastic multi-disciplinary team. We offer a service 08:00-20:00, 7 days a week with additional on call duties 20:00-08:00 to cover the 136 suite when in use and the 24/7 mental health helpline for U18’s helping to support any emergency contact outside of usual working hours. The expectation is that you would undertake 3 on call sessions per month on a rota basis. If you are interested in applying for this please approach Jay Eeles Service Manager/Clinical Lead. [email protected]
We positively welcome applications from people who represent diverse communities.
Main duties of the job
• To provide emergency assessments in the acute hospital and other settings including YP’s home.
• To constantly consider creative safe options to CYP in mental health crisis.
• Provide an extended level of support in conjunction with Core CAMHS/CAMHS ED to support young people at home and avoid hospital admission.
• Provide urgent assessment and intervention to young people who are not known to CAMHS.
• Support young people whilst inpatient and with stepping down from a hospital admission back into the community.
• Advice and signposting to other agencies regarding appropriate responses and pathways into services.
• Managing and responding to CAMHS 136 suite and supporting the 24/7 mental health helpline for under 18’s.
• Assess young people in Crisis develop their care plan and ascertain if there is a need for hospital admission or offer home treatment/ crisis intervention packages of care.
• Liaise with internal and external teams and partners to ensure an appropriate level of support and transition following crisis episode of care.
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Working for our organisation
At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we’re building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform community mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives all across our communities.
The Trust is rated ‘Good’ from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and are lead provider for mental health services across The Black Country . We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, working to eradicate dormitories and building new facilities.
This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work in a collaborative and flexible way with partners, service users, carers and their families.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Do you want to be part of developing national good practice initiatives?
- Are you skilled in working with children and young people with mental health needs at point of crisis?
- Do you believe in a patient focused approach to care pathway development?
- Do you work effectively as part of an enhanced multidisciplinary team?
- Are you looking for opportunities for career development and progression?
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- • NMC Registration or other relevant professional registration body.
- • Proven post qualification experience
- • Experience of working with children and young people with mental Health problems.
- • Post Basic Courses / Study Days
Desirable criteria
- • CAMHS experience
- • Acute care experience.
- • Previous experience in similar role.
- Ability to travel across sites
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
- Jay Eeles
- Job title
- Clinical Lead/Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07817568892
- Additional information
Working hours Monday-Thursday 08:00-18:00
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