Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a mental health practitioner with a keen interest in working with young people whose difficulties are sometimes described by the term ‘personality disorder’. To apply you will need to be a qualified Nurse, Social Work or Occupational Therapist, with post qualification experience.
The service has a proven track record in providing effective services to individuals with a history of trauma, self-harm and interpersonal difficulties. The service has now been adapted to better meet the needs of young people aged 18-25. EMERGE Leeds provides a range of interventions for people with complex emotional and relational difficulties including care coordination, Youth Work, Housing, Peer Support, Occupational Therapy, Psychotherapy and Creative Therapies.Senior Mental Health Practitioners sit at the heart of our established service providing case management and care coordination in the context of the multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Senior Mental Health Practitioners in the service manage a caseload and provide care coordination as part of a psychologically informed service, alongside colleagues from range of disciplines and partner organisations. The successful applicant will be expected to develop positive and meaningful therapeutic relationships with individuals who experience emotional distress and interpersonal difficulties, and to provide effective interventions and case management.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Provide effective case management to caseload in the community.
- Develop a therapeutic working relationship with service users whose difficulties have historically been described by the term ‘personality disorder’, and facilitate focussed treatment interventions as appropriate.
- Collaborate with service users, carers and other service providers to develop effective care plans taking responsibility for implementation and regular reviews.
- Ensure effective care co-ordination and communication within care teams, the wider Network and others involved.
- Ensure that crisis plans are in place, up to date and circulated.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management.
- Offer psychologically informed assessment to young people referred for care coordination.
- Undertake regular office duty
- Attend monthly clinical supervision
- Attend monthly management supervision
- Attend weekly clinical meeting
- Attend monthly Team Development sessions
- Contribute to the collection of outcomes measures and take part in service evaluation
The service actively maintains a reflective, supportive and learning culture to support the work it does. Opportunities are provided to develop experience and skills and staff are supported to develop within their professional roles. Team members are provided with training and access to both regular clinical and managerial supervision.
You will be required to travel by car within Leeds on a regular basis.
Please contact Kate Lynn if you would like to know more about the service or the role on 0113 8557950
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Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Relevant core professional qualification and associated registration.
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with service users with personality disorder/s and/or complex emotional and interpersonal difficulties
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Understanding of effective case management in mental health context and knowledge of Care Programme Approach
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work.Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.