Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Main duties of the job

You will need to demonstrate your continuing professional development since the point of qualification and how this can transfer to the role. You need to be open to enhancing your current skills through in house training and the shadowing of team members. You must be willing to attend external training as required for the post. You will provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and their families. Work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies/professionals. Provide supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within Insight EIP. Promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people

If you are committed to empowering service users and their families and can be forward thinking around how to engage this vulnerable client group we would like to hear form you.

For further information contact David Davies, Team Manager, Wakefield Early Intervention in Psychosis Team 01924 316936 or via email david.davies@swyt.nhs.uk.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

Job responsibilities

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.