Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Main duties of the job

You will have the right attitude, skills and knowledge to share our passion in delivering the best quality care experience for children and their families.

Your duties will be related to the delivery of clinical care in the form of evidence based psychological therapies to children, young people and their families accessing CAMHS, and supporting the entry pathway, being the lead clinician at the point of Triage into Children's mental health services. This will include duty assessments, signposting and gatekeeping.

The role would suit a person who has experience of working with children, young people and their families experiencing mental health and trauma difficulties.

The job entails working with the families together partnership to aid service delivery. Kirklees core is a strong, supportive team, who have excellent structures to offer regular supervision.

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.