Job overview
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We are seeking to recruit staff with a professional registration (Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy) to work within a dynamic service within Pennine Care. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working with children and young people and working innovatively across pathways and traditional boundaries to ensure that young people get the right care, from the right clinician/team, at the right time and in the right place in order to improve their outcomes and the families/carers experience of mental health support.
This is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to work as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner offering assessment, support, signposting and brief therapeutic intervention where appropriate to young people who require crisis support within our CYP crisis teams which include Home Treatment, Rapid Response and Enhanced Rapid Response-paediatric liaison within the Pennine Care footprint.
Main duties of the job
Pennine Care is currently engaged in a number of transformation schemes across the footprint. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan our CAMHS Care Hub has done extensive work around developing an exciting new Acute Care Pathway for children experiencing a crisis in their mental health. The aim within this pathway is to ensure that at the time of a young person experiencing a crisis our services can respond in the right way and at the right time with the right support to try and keep young people out of hospital and care for them in the community so they are able to experience the least amount of disruption to their lives and the lives of their families/carers. The other aspect of care and support within this pathway is to ensure that in situations where young people have been admitted to hospital that we are supporting them to be discharged in the safest and quickest way possible with the right resources in place in the community to prevent readmission.
The Acute Care Pathway Service Line is made up of 6 diverse teams offering different aspects of the care and treatment young people need from enhanced community crisis services such as Rapid Response Teams and Home Based Treatment Teams, assessment based services to ensure the young person is on the right pathway such as Greater Manchester Assessment Centre and Enhanced Rapid Response Paediatric Liaison Teams and at the other end specialists services such as Inpatient CAMHS settings and Community Eating Disorder Teams.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Mental Health Practitioner - relocation offer considered
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and implementation of the use of outcome measures
- Knowledge of therapeutic interventions with CYP
- Knowledge of the policy guidance and legislation specifically relating to children and young people
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health, including the Mental Health Act and issues of capacity and consent
- Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures, responsibilities and application in practice
- Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
- Research and development methodology.
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
Desirable
- A general understanding of evidenced based psychological therapies from a range of modalities, including systemic working
- Understanding of the acuity and demands of CYP inpatient services
- Knowledge of referral systems and general bed management procedures
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in either community or inpatient settings which meet the core competencies of the post
- Experience of assessment, formulation and managing complex cases and risk within a mental health service
- An extensive range of clinical experience within the speciality or within a care pathway
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for patients’ care and treatment and case management
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT
- Effective skills to be able to communicate, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Experience of report writing
Desirable
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life span and presenting with the full range of severity.
- Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate the impact of their clinical practice
- Experience of children and young peoples’ inpatient mental health care
- Experience of working across professional / organisational boundaries
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Have sound assessment skills and ability to articulate outcomes to CYP, families, other clinicians, practitioners and stakeholders
- Ability to provide management and clinical supervision to the workforce
- Ability to remain motivated
- Ability to carry out therapeutic interventions with this patient group
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Demonstrable commitment to the focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Ability to work across boundaries and look for collective success, listens, involves and respects and learns from the contributions of others
- High level mental health assessment and risk assessment and formulation skills
- Case management skills focusing on the needs of the CYP and the context of their pathway in relation to all clinical and legal processes
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Able to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Good organiser, influencer and networker
- Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable children and young people and their families and carers.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
- Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
- Committed to continual quality and service improvement
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
- Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling good working relationships with others across professional boundaries
- Able to provide and receive complex sensitive information and negotiate with other clinicians on difficult issues
- Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult situations
- Ability to inspire others and work collaboratively.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Works well under pressure and is proactive
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant core professional qualification in mental health (nursing, social work or occupational therapy)
- Evidence of current professional registration and continued professional development
- Educated to first degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and abilities to work at this level.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy, IT and keyboard skills
- Short courses and experience to post graduate diploma level
Desirable
- Training in one or more additional specialised areas of practice including children and young people
- Evidence of teaching and assessing in clinical practice
- Mentorship qualification
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This advert is for Crisis Care CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust in Heathfield House. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Sep 2026.
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