Overview
Contract Type: 37.5 hours per week (Within core service hours Monday to Friday 9-5pm)
Salary: £40,617 – £48,778 incl 5% fringe HCAS pro rata per annum
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner? Do you want to join our Children and Young People’s Services (CYPS) now known as Mindworks Hub-South. Are you passionate about delivering excellent care to our young people and their families? If yes, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Our CYPS Mindworks Hub-South is a are highly supportive, friendly and innovative team covering South Surrey (Frimley and Guildford). As part of our i-THRVE framework, this team is focused on Getting More Help and Risk Support to Children and Young people. You would join a strong multidisciplinary team offering assessments and interventions to children and young people experiencing psychological distress, emotional and mental health difficulties as well as providing support to our Partner Agencies.
We are seeking those professionally registered with NMC, HCPC or SWE and have significant experience of working with under 18yr olds
Main duties of the job
My job makes better lives by providing timely interventions that contribute to the care of young people with mental health problems and their families. I will put the experience of the CYP using the service at the centre of my decision making whilst building a supportive and responsive relationship with colleagues.
- Mental Health Assessments
- Risk Assessment and implementation of risk management plans
- Delivering evidenced based Group interventions
- Use of outcome measures to evidence good practice
- Supervise and support students nurses
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.
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
· To provide timely mental health assessments and treatment interventions for children and young people.
· To provide support, advice and education to the wider network including the Hub Team. To build knowledge and skills of staff within the alliance partnership in the care and treatment of children and young people.
· To work individually and jointly within the Mindworks alliance to provide a specialist, assessment and treatment service to children, adolescents and their families.
Please see the Job Description for further details of responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or diploma level qualification in Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work
- Registered professional with current registration, appropriate to the job role (NMC, HCPC or SWE)
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2-year post qualification experience of working in the community with young people with mental health difficulties and their families
- Experience and ability to undertake Mental Health Assessments, Risk Assessments and use outcome measures to evidence good practice
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements 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.
