Assistant Practitioner Under 18's Community

Are you looking for change? Obtaining new skills, want to experience working in a different care setting?. ThenCATAT ( CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Team) have a exciting opportunity for you. Would you like to work in a team that strives to support children and young people to recover in their community rather than admission to specialist adolescent psychiatric inpatient units. Providing individual needs led support alongside the MDT, to support, encourage positive futures and giving them the opportunities to be able to manage in adult life. Then CATAT might be for you! CATAT are commissioned to support Children and Young People (CYP) under the age of 18 within the Norfolk and Suffolk locality. The aim of CATAT is to support the young persons' recovery in the least restrictive environment, if it is assessed that a young person requires admission to aid recovery CATAT will support discharge planning and to support them and their family in the community. The team will serve as a gateway in and out of Tier 4 (T4) provision so CYP will be able to access T4 provision / support without the need for admission. This is a significant change in both the clinical offer and culture. CATAT aim to promote a preventative rather than a reactive approach to enable admission avoidance use of AMBIT based approaches and use of the THRIVE ethos aids and supports stabilisation as well as the system around the child, What will CATAT as a service offers

• Consultation/Advice
• Enhanced assessments
• Ensure that children & young people in Norfolk & Suffolk access care in the least restrictive environment possible.
• Case Formulation and ongoing case management to formulate the CYP care pathway.
• Face to face community-based visits
• Attending MDT, LEAPs, CETRs, MALMs, Linking in with inpatient and acute wards.
• Therapeutic interventions and approaches in relation to the expressed mental health needs of the CYP. Such as emotional regulation, DBT skills, AMBIT technics, risk management.
• Systemic approach to working with CYP, families, carers, and wider professional networks.
• Training and education for other services
• Promote joined up working and liaison with other involved services and teams across mental and physical health and children's services.
  
  Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about. Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.