Young Adult - Barking, United Kingdom - NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

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Barking, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a young adult senior mental Health Practitioner ( band 7) - this is a newly developed post.

The post holder will require vision and drive to support and implement new ways of working to shape transition care pathways in supporting young adults in preparing for adulthood.

The newly created role will be pivotal in shaping the care pathway from children services to adult services, to ensure high quality, timely, accessible, evidence based service and improving service user outcomes.

The post holder will be required to be able to be operational and clinical lead the service.

The post holder will work along side the newly transformed Mental Health and Wellness Teams providing locality based care within the borough of baking and Dagenham.

The post-holder will be a qualified practitioner (e.g. mental health nurse, social worker or Occupational therapist), fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC or Social Work England).

The post-holder will provide operational and clinical/practice leadership to the Young People and Adult Mental Health Professionals working in the care pathway across children and adult mental health services from aged 18 to 25 years.

They will be responsible for assessment, intervention systematic outcome measurement in the care pathway for this service user group.

They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it and who use the care pathway transitioning from children services to adult services

The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based interventions by staff.

The post-holder will ensure that there are no delays in young people accessing timely adult services.

The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering a range of therapeutic and practice interventions across children and adults services from aged 18 years to 25 years.

They will be an effective care pathway leader working on their own initiative.

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster.

We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust.

All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.

As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.

The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,108 and a maximum payment of £5,177 per annum).

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist care pathway for young people aged 18-25 with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families, providing and ensuring the provision of multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention.
To undertake a range of generic clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.
To provide consultation on care pathway cases to other multi-disciplinary staff within CAMHS and Adult Mental Health.
To contribute to audit and research.
To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring.
To work in professional practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework for mental health in line with Trust's policies and procedures
To use where appropriate, an assertive outreach approach to minimise the risk of YP/YA falling between services

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.