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About
Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
The Trust’s purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: - We Care, We Listen, We Deliver
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 09-Jun-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 09-Jun-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Mobile - Fieldhead Bradford, Hillbrook, Keighley, Home
- Town
- Keighley or Bradford
- Postcode
- BD7 1LG
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time 37.5 per week)
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 £35,392- £42618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health
- Interview date
- 17/06/2024
Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.
Job overview
CAMHS Crisis team support young people who are experiencing a mental health crisis or are in acute psychological or emotional distress, presenting with an increased risk to self and or others. We work in partnership with young people and their families as well as other professionals to complete risk assessments and formulate safety and care plans, offering short term CBT and DBT informed intervention to stabilise their mental health and prevent escalation requiring admission to hospital. The crisis team also conduit between tier 4 services and community services by supporting young people who are ready to come home from hospital. The CAMHS crisis team promotes agile and flexible working in the community, delivering the service across the Bradford & Airedale district. Colleagues are autonomous in their practice culminating in rewarding practice. The Crisis team has psychological support and embedded support for colleagues through regular supervision. This includes one to one clinical supervision whilst also having access to team formulation groups.
Closing Date: 9th June 2024
Short Listing Date: 10th June 2024
Interview Date: 17th June 2024
Posts:
1x CAMHS Generic Mental Health Practitioner - CORE Team.
3x CAMHS Crisis Mental Health Practitioner - Crisis Team
Full time, permanent posts, with the opportunity to work flexibly/part time hours.
We would welcome applications from:
- Occupational Therapists
- Nurses
- Social Workers
Advert
To provide a high standard of care through clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning to young people presenting in the Accident and Emergency Departments who are in mental health crisis.
Working within the community, providing a range of face-to-face brief solution focused interventions empowering service users, carers and their families in decision making and signpost to a range of health and social care resources for support.
The is opportunity to work alongside the Intensive Intervention Team and alongside other CAMHS pathways to facilitate appropriate intervention and care for clients and their families
Working for our organisation
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more information about this role.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker
Desirable criteria
- EMB 998 or equivalent - mentor or students
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years post qualification experience within a MH setting
Desirable criteria
- Experience of child and adolescent Mental Health
Documents
- CAMHS Crisis Team JD and Spec B6 MH Practitioner (PDF, 208.4KB)
- CAMHS CORE Team JD and Spec B6 MH Practitioner (PDF, 232.4KB)
- NHS Candidate Guide (PDF, 814.4KB)
- Useful Links (PDF, 174.2KB)
- Wellbeing Flyer (PDF, 290.4KB)
- Staff Childcare and Carers Support (PDF, 800.2KB)
- Organisational Strategy (PDF, 366.1KB)
- ID Guidance (PDF, 486.4KB)
- How we use your information (PDF, 30.0KB)
- Candidate Guide (PDF, 6.5MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Keiron Cassidy
- Job title
- CAMHS Core Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01274 723241
- Additional information
Job Overview Continued-
Do you want to make a difference? Do you have a ‘can do’ attitude, enthusiastic, motivated, and ready for a challenge? Do you possess excellent communication and organisational skills? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen to work within Bradford's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
We are seeking to recruit a number of professionally qualified practitioners to further develop and grow our multi-disciplinary CAMHS team.
You will be working in a community based multi-disciplinary team delivering a service to children in a rich and diverse community, young people and their families in a supportive and lively team, where different professions are respected and valued. You will have the opportunity to play a significant role in the leadership delivery of a modernised and comprehensive service.
The post requires enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who are willing to make a real change. Do you have a ‘can do’ attitude and are you quality focused? Are you enthusiastic, motivated and ready for a challenge, possess excellent communication and organisational skills?
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