CCETT Senior Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 Senior Practitioner, to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS Team based in Lincoln for a 12-month secondment or fixed term position.

Our service covers areas across North of Lincolnshire so having a means to travel is essential.

We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our award-winning team. You will be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/ disordered eating and psychosis. Our team looks at providing an alternative to a tier 4 admission and supporting those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.

The role will include providing Crisis Assessments, 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work, and psycho- education with parents and Carers.

You will work closely with our CAMHS Mental Health Liaison service.

You will be expected to work a shift pattern on a Rota basis covering 7 days per week: 08:45-19:00hrs.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of community clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools

Provide rapid response to children/young people presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations over a 24/7 rota.

Work as part of a team managing referrals for assessment and intensive community treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis or at risk of hospital admission.

Act as bed  co-ordinators for out-of-county placements.

Support the Access Assessment of new referrals for in-patient beds.

Act as lead professional for complex cases within the team.

Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management   plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis.

Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.

Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children’s services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.

Proactively involve children/young people and their families/carers in service development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Get in touch today:

Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Andrew Smith, via email at [email protected] or by telephone 07935 706692