- Qualification from PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate or undergraduate course) OR an experienced and qualified graduate mental health worker with a Post Graduate Certificate in Primary Mental Health Care or equivalen
- Experience of working as a psychological wellbeing practitioner / graduate mental health worker in a primary care setting
- Experience of routine outcome monitoring
- Experience of working in the local community
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Knowledge of child psychology and development
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrate an understanding of parenting and behaviour management interventions
- Knowledge of child protection issues, safeguarding and other relevant legislation
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding school and education and the impact it can have on mental health
- Ability to meet agreed / specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Excellent IT skills
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Ability to use supervision to guide case management
- Ability to build good rapport with children, young people and parents / carers
Bury CAMHS - Pennine Care NHS FT
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Job summary
#JoinUsBeYou and make a difference to a child's life
Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate as we are about high quality care.
The successful candidate will need the ability to work autonomously within the context of a multi-disciplinary team approach and undertake specific work with young people and their families. Excellent assessment skills and the ability to formulate clinical decisions and management plans are essential, including assessment and management of will strive to achieve the best for every young person, show commitment to delivering evidence based practice and have the capability of making clinical decisions around complex and emotive issues, supported by knowledge of relevant legislation and safeguarding in relation to the client group. You will monitor and evaluate treatment offered to service users adhering to professional and Trust guidelines and using routine outcome measures related to service development and reporting. You must be an excellent communicator, be flexible, self motivated and have a willingness to build links with colleagues across team and agencies.
Main duties of the job
This is a busy multi-disciplinary CAMHS team which includes child psychological wellbeing practitioners, nurses, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. You will have the benefit of being co-located with partner services for children and families. A key focus of the service leadership team will be implementing transformation that ensures timely access to high quality care. Our vision is for our local community to be well equipped to support the young people of Bury to grow up with good emotional health and wellbeing. We work closely with our partners in education, children's services and the 3rd sector to achieve the developed ambitious Local Transformation Plan for CAMHS services. This plan provides us with the guide and resources to begin delivering our vision of having CAMHS workers available in new ways, and working closely with children's universal and targeted services in each of our locality areas.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
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Please see attached job description and person specification to assist you in completing your supporting information section of your application. To stand the very best chance of being shortlisted ensure you give examples how you meet each of the criteria on the person specification as this is ultimately what you'll be shortlisted against.
The successful post holders will be offered specialist clinical supervision and separate line management; this is an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in developing their clinical skills and gaining experience of working in a specialist mental health service.
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