Job summary
- Main area
- Triage and Assessment Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-SPS954-AT-B
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Management CYPMH Integrated
- Town
- Trust wide
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CYPMH Triage and Assessment Practitioner (£7k Incentive)
Band 6
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
- Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information about Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
This is a Trust wide vacancy in various locations - Lancaster and Morecambe, Fylde and Wyre, Preston, Chorley South Ribble and West Lancashire
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team:-
- To take a leadership role in the delivery of high quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and well-being of children and young people, their families and carers.
- Within a systemic and holistic framework undertake needs led, evidence based, highly skilled assessments and brief therapeutic interventions to children and young people, their families and carers, who present to the service, including as a result of deliberate self-harm.
- To screen referrals, signpost and offer an assessment to make sure children and young people are accessing the right services in a timely manner.
- To provide a duty function within the team where delegated.
- As part of an integrated CYPMH service, actively liaise and support robust partnership working arrangements between the CYPMH Team and community partners and other key stakeholders involved with the child across agencies in order that an integrated package of care is developed.
Main duties of the job
Join our CYPMH (CAMHS) team as a Triage Practitioner in Lancashire and South Cumbria, transforming children and young people's mental health. We're seeking 5 Triage and Assessment Practitioners to pioneer a role in our new CYPMH access hub. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality assessments, clinical interventions, and leading clinical governance and quality improvement.
With your help, we're deliver a new integrated Thrive model, which will revolutionise the CYPMH service and transform young lives.
Your Role:
· Deliver high-quality, timely, and accessible assessments, manage a clinical caseload, and provide brief clinical interventions.
· Contribute to high-quality service delivery, ensuring responsive and personalised care.
· Provide and receive clinical supervision, enhancing service quality.
· Engage in partnership building, quality improvement, and clinical governance.
· Work alongside our expert Team Leaders, Service Integration Managers, and Senior Clinical Leads.
We're Looking For:
· Passionate Registered Nurses, Social Workers, or Occupational Therapists
Join Us:
· 5 positions in various locations including Lancaster, Morecambe, Fylde, Wyre, Preston, and West Lancashire.
· Full-time roles with flexible hours, including weekends and bank holidays.
Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people and be part of this life-changing work!
Working for our organisation
£7k Welcome Bonus:
*The £7k Welcome Bonus package applies to this role. The bonus is only available for people who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in a like-for-like role; e.g. a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse role at LSCFT. Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 24 months of employment. This bonus is applicable to any successful candidate whose interview for this role is conducted prior to 30th June 2024.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:
· £3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT)
· £2,000 after 12 months
· £2,000 after 24 months
PLEASE NOTE: This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 24 months of commencing employment.
For more details, please visit our website - Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)
If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them – please contact [email protected].
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level qualification, Registered Nurse (Mental Health or Child) or Qualified Social Worker or Occupational Therapy
- Information technology skills sufficient to the undertaking of the post
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An ability to think systemically and holistically
- Demonstrable Knowledge and skills in evidence based needs led assessments, of highly complex and co-morbid presentations of children, young people, their families and carers
- Demonstrable Knowledge and skills in evidence based therapeutic interventions relevant to the needs of this client group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous months experience of working within Children and Young Peoples Mental Health
- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of Child Mental Health
- Evidence of an ability to effectively manage own workload and able to work autonomously
Personal
Essential criteria
- An ability to be flexible and innovative to adapt to the changing needs of the developing service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amin Sadik
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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