Mindworks Hub Clinical Practitioner

Job summary
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 East. 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 East is a are highly supportive, friendly and innovative team covering the East of Surrey (Leatherhead and Redhill). 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

About us
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.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities
The post holder will work closely with the Mindworks Alliance including School Based Needs, Surrey Well Being Partnership and other agencies during office hours, responding to referrals of young people presenting in need:

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner, undertaking clinical assessment of children and young people who may have a complex co-morbid mental health need, working alongside the wider network and providing consultations where necessary

To be an integral part of the Hub duty Rota, responding to queries from families and the wider network including risk support.

To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.

To manage own caseload from referral to discharge/transfer, holding medium to high-risk cases in liaison with the MDT.

Ensure that outcome measures are implemented and audited. Contribute to relevant research and ensure that interventions on the pathway are evidence based.

Be responsible for the oversight and completion of initial assessment and subsequent facilitation of a warm handover and referrals to other services and/or discharge with a signed care plan regarding safety and recorded on the electronic patient record.

Other duties:
To actively formulate a robust My Safety Plan with young people and their families inclusive of risk assessment and management and positive risk taking.

To effectively manage all caseload KPIs including Goal Based Outcomes and clinical audits.

Contribute to the development and implementation of clinical guidelines and protocols relevant to sphere of responsibility.

For more information please refer to the Job description.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered professional with current registration, appropriate to the job role (NMC, HCPC or SWE)
• Relevant professional qualification and registration in Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy.

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrable 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.