The Parental Mental Health Team is an innovative early intervention nurse-led service working with parents of children under age 5 experiencing mental distress. We provide mental health assessments, including family strengths and difficulties, offering a range of support in the home and groups in the community. We work closely with Family Early Help, Children's Social Care, Children’s Centres and CAMHS.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, flexible and experienced Mental Health Nurse or Allied Health Professional who is keen to strengthen knowledge and expertise in parental mental health and to use a ‘Think Family’ approach.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop skills and experience of working in a unique community team carrying out a range of group and individual interventions. They will carry out mental health and risk assessments, including risk factors involving adults and children. An awareness of the impact of parental mental health on family relationships and parenting, and knowledge of child safeguarding procedures is essential.
Excellent interpersonal skills will be required to address sensitive issues with families, as well as commitment to providing a high standard quality of care.
We actively encourage applicants from black and ethnic minority groups.
This is a full-time post with a working shift pattern of Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Staff are expected to carry out home visits; lone work across Southwark and may need to hot-desk.
You will contribute to the provision of services to meet the needs of adults experiencing mental health difficulties who have children in the 0-5 age range.
You will have responsibility for the provision of mental health assessments and assessments of family strengths and difficulties.
You will deliver a broad range of AMH evidence-based individual and group interventions as well as supporting the service user as a parent.
You will work with other AMH practitioners from all disciplines.
You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively to support the needs of the family.
You will be required to assess and manage risk within your case load and make appropriate referrals.
You will work under the supervision of senior clinicians and will manage your own caseload.
You may be required to supervise, manage or advise trainees of the team.
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some Of Our Benefits Are Highlighted Here
* Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
* Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
* Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
* Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
* Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
* NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other Benefits Include
* Counselling services
* Wellbeing events
* Long service awards
* Cycle to work scheme
* Season ticket loan
* Childcare vouchers
* Staff restaurants
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Tidnam Job title: Team Manager Email address: kate.tidnam@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07583 742 365 #J-18808-Ljbffr