UCARMHSS Mental Health Practitioner | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking an experienced, innovative, and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioners to join our exciting new Universities of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Mental Health Student Service (UCARMHSS) pilot which is set to launch in 2025.

This new service will offer multiple pathways: psychiatry, psychology, and care coordination, allowing students to access tailored interventions. The goal is to improve access to support for students' mental health, inform about available support, and guide them in managing their mental health.

• A focus on student needs rather than diagnosis, with every referral undergoing thorough triage and, where necessary, formulation assessments.
• Proactive support to help students succeed academically and socially at university.
• Flexible access to services, with face-to-face, telephone, video, and other online options available to meet individual preferences.
• Comprehensive care coordination, encompassing assessment, case management, self-management support, and liaison with university services.

To provide evidence-based, specialist interventions to university students attached to Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

1. To work as an integral member of the UCARMHSS Team, providing mental health assessments and formulations, through information gathering and analysis, including the use of routine outcome measures and within bio-psychosocial models of mental health.
2. To provide support to a diverse population that can present with complex mental health needs whilst maintaining high functioning.
3. To actively liaise with students’ supports which may be outside of the CPFT catchment area.
4. To utilise specialist knowledge and evidence-based models of mental health to make decisions about a student’s mental health needs.
5. To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in students referred to the service.
6. To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based interventions.
7. To evaluate and care plan, considering individual, contextual and social factors.
8. To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice and care planning.
9. To utilise individual, group and peer supervision to support assessments, care planning and decision making.
10. To participate in the team’s use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across the directorate.

The service operates on the 3rdfloor of the building, alongside theMental Health Advice Service (MHAS),theUniversity Counselling Service (UCS), thePostgraduate Wellbeing Service (PWS)and theHarassment and Violence Support Service (HVSS).

This advert closes on Monday 10 Feb 2025