Primary Mental Health Worker

Job summary

The Sunderland Community Children and Young Peoples Service (SCCYPMHS) is delighted to invite applications from exceptional Primary Mental Health Workers who are passionate about supporting children, young people, and their families. This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving and forward thinking service. We are seeking individuals who can deliver high quality mental health interventions while also supporting the development of skills and knowledge in universal childrens practitioners around child and adolescent mental health.

Our SCCYPMHS is a well established, innovative, and creative Getting Help mental health service, providing targeted support for children and young people. Successful candidates will join a skilled multidisciplinary team, contributing to the development and delivery of early intervention approaches that identify mental health difficulties at the earliest opportunity. The service aims to promote resilience and positive mental health outcomes and is made up of both generic and specialist practitioners.

Applicants should have strong knowledge and experience in childrens mental health, alongside leadership capabilities. You will be confident working autonomously as a practitioner, while also collaborating effectively with colleagues across a wide range of professions and organisations.

Main duties of the job

We expect the post holders to have sound children and young peoples mental health knowledge and skills. Have the aptitude, motivation and enthusiasm for working within a groundbreaking service. Candidates will need:

• To offer assessment and treatment to children and young people with moderate mental health needs.
• This includes the direct provision of evidence-based interventions and outcome focused standards of care to children and families.
• The delivery of high-quality training, consultation, and support to universal services.
• To offer clinical supervision and support the facilitation and development of clinical expertise within the team. To assist leadership, motivation and support to the team.
• To support with service development and innovative models.
• To support with clinical governance and quality monitoring, ongoing research and audit of practice.
• To work autonomously, assessing child/young person needs, identify and implement a plan of care and initiate appropriate holistic research-based health information and care.

For an informal discussion about this post please contact Lesley Gammell, CYPMHS Clinical Lead on 0191 5244000.

Job responsibilities

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One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture / working environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Looking after our workforces health and wellbeing is a priority for us. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via our Flexible Working Policy.

The Trust employs around 8,746 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area. We offer our staff outstanding benefits - Fitness Centre (SRH), libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Care Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements.If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.