Senior Community Mental Health Practitioner - Worthing, United Kingdom - Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Worthing, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are recruiting a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our established Community Mental Health Liaison Service in Horsham.

The role will be to offer mental health consultation and advice to schools within West Sussex in relation to suicide prevention.

The work will also be as part of a multi-agency prevention and postvention response and also direct children and their families to the most appropriate service in order to meet their emotional well-being needs and to work within the framework of early intervention, promotion and prevention

The role will also offer a variety of short
- term evidence based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families and to hold a small case load to reduce risk within a stepped care model.

You will be expected to work closely with partner agencies including Education and Social Care.

Part of the role will also be to signpost to other appropriate services including are specialist CAMHS teams and other commissioned services across the designated area.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing a high-quality service which complements the work done by our wider CAMHS colleagues and in liaison/partnership with other key young people's services.

You will hold a small caseload of clients identified between you and the schools, who need well-being assessments and care plans which could be delivered in the school setting.