Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner? Do you want to join our Children and Young People's Services (CYPS) now known as Mindworks Hub East? Are you passionate about delivering excellent care to our young people and their families? If yes, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Mindworks Hub Clinical Practitioner (Social Worker, Nurse or Occupational Therapist)
The Mindworks Hub Clinical Practitioner will be a member of the multi‑disciplinary specialist team, providing services to children and young people aged 5-18 years and those in transition to adult services with mental health needs, emotional and behavioural problems.
Mindworks Hub East is a highly supportive, friendly and innovative team based across the East of Surrey in Redhill and Leatherhead. As part of our i-THRVE framework, this team is focused on Getting More Help and Risk Support to Children and Young people.
Responsibilities
* Provide timely assessments of children and young people with moderate to severe mental health needs, including deliberate self‑harm assessments, and arrange timely follow‑up appointments and appropriate referrals.
* Provide support, advice and education to the wider network, including the Hub Team, and build staff knowledge and skills within the alliance partnership in the care and treatment of children and young people.
* Work independently or jointly with Mindworks Hub staff to provide specialist assessments and treatment to children, adolescents and their families who require additional help or risk support.
* Conduct autonomous clinical assessments of children and young people who may have complex co‑morbidity, work alongside the wider network and provide consultations where necessary.
* Serve as an integral part of the Hub duty rota, responding to queries from families and the wider network, including risk support.
* Collaborate with a highly experienced multi‑disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of CYP with moderate to severe and complex mental health difficulties.
* Manage own caseload from referral to discharge or transfer, holding medium to high‑risk cases.
* Ensure that outcome measures for the team are implemented and audited.
* Contribute to relevant research and ensure that interventions on the pathway are evidence based.
* Oversee and complete initial assessments, facilitate warm handovers and referrals to other services, and discharge with a signed care plan regarding safety, all recorded on the electronic patient record.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with under‑represented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Applicants who do not identify with these characteristics will also be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible‑working organisation, we encourage you to discuss how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement, including job share, part‑time or other patterns.
About the Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neuro‑developmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well. The Trust is among the top 10 mental health, learning disability and community trusts nationwide and offers flexible working, free parking and comprehensive staff wellbeing support.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
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