Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Lead Clinician)

Provide clinical leadership

within the team

Hold a small complex

clinical caseload

Offer clinical supervision,

mentoring and supporting members of the MDT

Provide expert advice on

assessment, formulation, risk management and crisis intervention

with team delivery and development. Including quality improvements and decision

making

Promote evidence-based

practice and ensure high standards of clinical governance

Contribute to service

development, audit and quality improvement initiatives

Develop strong partnerships

with other senior leaders in the team

Support staff well-being,

professional development and positive team culture

The service is based at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield and youd be expected to be in base during your shifts. The service works 7 days a week, 8am-8pm and you would work on a shift basis.

If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with Jen Wilson.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to

have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

While this role meets the

eligibility requirements for Skilled Worker sponsorship, due to the short-term

nature of the contract, the Trust will not be offering sponsorship for this

post.

We welcome applications from

individuals who already have the right to work in the UK or are on a visa route

that permits employment without sponsorship. Such applications will be

considered alongside all others.

job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake

other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder

when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To provide highly

specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest

quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and

intensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

To work autonomously and

collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other

agencies/professionals.

To provider supervision

and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed

for the team leader.

To promote safeguarding

and the welfare of children and young people

1

To work autonomously within

professional guidelines and exercise responsibility in accordance with the

Trust Policies and procedures

2

The post-holder will have highly developed skills in assessing the

needs of children and their carers based on the analysis of highly complex

facts and situations. Interventions

will be planned based on the assessment information and interpretation of

this. The clinical assessment will

include gathering appropriate historical information from the child and

family, allied to clinical observation of family relationships and mental

state of the child and other family members, and obtaining relevant

information from other agencies.

Offering highly specialist expertise in child and adolescent mental

health, ensuring clear documentation in all appropriate case notes and

sharing assessments and information with the family and all relevant professionals.

3

undertake highly specialist initial assessments of young people following

acts of serious self-harm and attempted suicide in line with evidence based

practice.

4

To undertake highly

specialised risk assessments following referral for presentations requiring

urgent mental health or psychiatric assessment and plan relevant

interventions.

5

To implement intensive

interventions with young people and their families, as relevant to the post-holders

main clinical role, i.e. group and individual work, systemic family

interventions. This will include analysis, interpretation and evaluation to

reformulate plans of care.

6

The post-holder will

provide therapeutic care to emotionally demanding clients in highly emotive

situations.

7

post-holder will develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with children

and carers. This will include cases of

high complexity which require more specialised

levels of assessment and therapeutic skills.

8

As part of

multi-disciplinary team, the Senior Mental Health Practitioner will deliver

and devise complex packages of care.

Provide individual and family review/follow-up sessions to children,

young people or their carers.

9

To take a lead role in

setting guidelines and standards that will ensure all young persons

identified with complex problems are discharged from Specialist CAMHS with an

appropriate package of care from universal services.

10

The post-holder will

have skills to communicate highly complex information regarding personal

psycho-social problems in an empathic and supportive way using the highest

level of interpersonal skills in situations which can be highly emotional and

sometimes antagonistic. Service users and families may have difficulty or be

reluctant to understand what is communicated to them.

11

are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health

and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,

Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are

the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is

to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this

by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ

staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a

difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage

and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value

diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being

a foundation Trust means were accountable to our

members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people

(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join

us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving

the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and

help each year.

are committed

to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and

vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this

commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Physical Attributes

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of community settings

Special Knowledge/Skills

Personal Attributes

Qualifications