Overview
Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Complex Care, Wisbech
Salary Up to £45,000 depending on experience
Hours: Full time
Location: Covering across Wisbech
If you've got excellent assessment skills and strong therapeutic consultation experiences gained in a Residential setting or working with Looked After Children, we can offer you a rewarding role with a difference.
Our teams are fully committed to Cambian's vision. They understand the challenges and rewards of working with our young people and know that every day they will achieve things that really matter.
This is no ordinary role. The pace is fast. There's lots of variety. And you'll need to be able to provide a therapeutic service to young people placed within community residential settings.
Offering lots of autonomy, your role will involve assessing and identifying the needs to our young people and staff by meeting them through consultation/training and reflective practice.
Supporting our teams across the residential homes, you'll spend most of your time out in the field, providing specialist assessments of children and young people within the residential setting. So, you will formulate and implement plans of therapeutic intervention/management of our children and young people's presentations to embed a trauma-informed approaches and psychological understanding the difficulties within the current evidence-based practice this will be in conjunction with the wider MDT.
About us, The Cambian Group, part of the CareTech family of companies, is one of the largest providers of specialist Education and Care services for children and young people in the UK, delivering across Special Education Schools and Colleges, Residential Care Homes and a Therapeutic Fostering Service.
Responsibilities
* Provide therapeutic service to young people in community residential settings and support the wider MDT through consultation and reflective practice.
* Assess and identify needs of young people and staff; develop and implement plans of therapeutic intervention with trauma-informed approaches.
* Deliver training and staff support across residential homes; contribute to evidence-based practice.
* Maintain professional standards and accurate records throughout services.
Qualifications and Experience
* Registered with the relevant professional body (HCPC, NMC, SWE, BABCP).
* A higher-level qualification in a relevant subject such as therapeutic support, social work, nursing or psychotherapy.
* Experience of working with vulnerable young people in a therapeutic or counselling setting.
* Excellent communication, organisational and time management skills; able to plan and implement therapeutic and trauma-informed approaches.
* Understanding of social, emotional and mental health difficulties and the complex needs of vulnerable young people in school and home environments.
* Ability to work under pressure, assess and mitigate risk, work autonomously and as part of a team, and establish clear boundaries between personal and professional responsibility.
* High level of accuracy and ability to maintain records; willing to undertake all training relevant to the role.
* Full clean driving licence; travel throughout the county may be required.
About Cambian
Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care.
All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and safer recruitment reference checks.
Cambian is an equal opportunities employer.
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