About this role
Job summary
We are looking for a practitioner who is confident working autonomously and accountably within an integrated team.
In this varied role you will provide comprehensive mental health assessment for children and young people who are in crisis, formulating details risk management plans and making referrals to partner agencies and services. You will thrive on working with a wide range of Children, Young People, Families, teams and services. You will be adaptable, able to meeting the changing needs of individuals, teams and networks.
Your role will include providing a high level of specialist mental health advice and input within discharge planning meetings. You will also be able to offer post-assessment reviews, psycho-social interventions, and self-harm minimisation tools, to effectively manage risk and support a young person's safety within the community.
You will offer line management and clinical supervision to staff members as appropriate within the team structure. You will support the matron in clinical, professional and operational meetings as required.
The role involves shift work, over a 7-day period. Covering hours of 9am-10pm Monday to Friday and 9am-5pm weekends and bank holidays. Flexible working pattern available on request.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Practitioner role is to provide strong clinical leadership, ensuring evidence-based practice is delivered to improve the quality of and shape responsive services. They are responsible for monitoring and ensuring maintenance of standards of care that support safe high-quality practice through an episode of care. The role has four key themes: Consultation, Liaison, Supervision, Training and Clinical work.
Within the clinical time the post holder will provide a rapid assessment and short-term intervention for young people presenting in mental health crisis at the local acute hospital and will work within the principles of the agreed model of care for the service as laid down in the operational policy.
The post holder will work as an autonomous and accountable practitioner within an integrated team. This will involve the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the care provided and effective liaison with all agencies involved with the service user.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will undertake rapid crisis assessments for young people referred through the general hospital providing short crisis intervention and signpost to other specialist services as required. In this they will demonstrate a high level of skill in assessing and managing risk.They will be able to formulate and convey sensitive, complex, and sometimes unwelcome information to clients and other professionals and manage this as constructively as possible. They will be able to identify when a biopsychosocial assessment is required and when a risk-review or advice and guidance to parents and carers are appropriate. The successful candidate will be able to participate in and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies as required.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively across the CAMHS directorate and partnership agencies. They will develop and maintain positive working relationships with all internal and external partners and stakeholders.They will identify and maximise on opportunities for consultation, specialist advice and training to professionals who come into contact and who have an important influence with children and young people who have mental health needs.
The successful candidate will have effective written communications skills to support the success of the clinical duties above. They will ensure documentation and care plans are comprehensive, timely, accessible and informative for the reader.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Nationally recognised core qualification i.e. RN, RNMH, RNLD, Social work. Professional Qualification at degree level or equivalent Completion of further post-qualification specialist training at post graduate level
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Princess Anne Hospital
Coxford Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 5YA
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)