Mental Health Practitioner (Band 5-6 Development Post)

Are you a Band 5 clinician who is looking to make the next step in your career?

We are keen to hear from enthusiastic and passionate professionals (including RMN/RN/Social worker/OT) and are able to offer an exciting opportunity for a development 5-6 post within a well established Crisis Team within Wakefield CAMHS.

The team was developed to promote our focus on supporting the most vulnerable and at risk young people, improving their access to services, and our response to young people in crisis.

The successful candidates will work both autonomously and as a part of an MDT providing timely access to specialist services for children and young people that present in crisis or who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and /or others.

The post will be based in Castleford, however requires an ability to travel to different areas of the Wakefield district. The team operates 8am-8pm 7 days a week.

Main duties of the job

You will manage your own caseload, providing high quality care appropriate to the young persons needs, including risk assessment and management.

You will work through the development competency framework supported by senior colleagues and management.

You will need to develop good working relationships with key professionals across the district; therefore excellent communication and engagement skills are essential.

A commitment to improving service delivery and developing new ways of supporting children, young people and families experiences is crucial to work within the wider CAMHS team.

This is a fast paced role and requires a can do attitude towards tasks.

The team offer outreach to those that are difficult to engage, providing intensive support to prevent admission to inpatient provision.

The team also support discharge from inpatient provision.

You will also offer clinical supervision to colleagues.

If you would like to be part of the developing ReACH Team we would love to hear from you!

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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.