Mental Health Practitioner - Rochdale, United Kingdom - Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Rochdale, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join Rochdale CAMHS Single Point of Access Team (SPOA) and support the development of the CYPMH offer into our local communities.

You will work in partnership with early help services and our local multi-agency safeguarding hubs to ensure that our referral pathways are accessible, delivered in true partnership and ensure children ,young people and families that need mental health advice and support can get what they need quickly and easily.

The service is based in a fantastic building co-located with early help, school health and a number of other services who support the young people of the borough and their families.

You will also support an established community based workforce, ensuring that they support the implementation of the Thrive model of care for Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health (CYPMH).

You will help ensure that CAMHS Getting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment from CAMHS access it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity

You will act as the first point of contact for professionals making a referral into Rochdale's Single Point of Access.

Screening referrals and signposting to the wealth of internal and external service providers for children and young peoples mental health across the Borough.

You will be responsible for the coordination and allocation of consultations to Locality Mental Health Practitioner (LMHPs) ensuring a service is provided to professionals in a timely manner enabling young people to receive the right support, at the right time, from the right practitioners.

Be instrumental in identifying gaps in service provision enabling these to be escalated to allow for service and system future planning across the borough.

Attend panel meetings for various cohorts of young people with specific vulnerabilities such as youth offending service, cared for children panel etc.

Work alongside colleagues in Social Care, Health, Education and the Police to ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people with an identified mental health need in the borough.

There are few careers as rewarding as those in the NHS, or that give you the opportunity to work with such a variety of people.

At Pennine Care, we actively recruit people of all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience as this helps us understand the different needs of our patients and provide the best possible service.

We are committed to being a great place to work which means we place a great deal of importance on the experience of our staff

We are committed to:

Effective recruitment and retention of our staff
Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staffing
Equality of opportunity and having a workforce that represents the communities we serve
Continual training, development and learning for all staff
Achieving a worklife balance and creating positive staff experiences which support wellbeing
Offer a great working environment and an attractive range of benefits.

Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within our SPOA service.

This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:

Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience.
Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP.
Good understanding and commitment to the CAMHS transformation agenda
Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence.
Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details and contact us if you require any further information or wish to discuss the post further