Overview
Would you like a protected caseload (maximum of 15), without care coordination responsibilities, so you can focus on providing collaborative psychosocial interventions? This permanent full-time Mental Health Practitioner role is based in Lancashire and open to those with a recognised core mental health professional qualification (e.g., RMN, SW, OT).
The Family Safeguarding Service collaborates with families to safeguard children and provide specialist assessment and treatment for parents with mental health difficulties. The integrated service operates at primary care level, offering preventative early intervention.
Main duties
* Completing mental health needs and risk screening assessments
* Signposting service users to relevant services or referrals to Clinical Psychologists within the Family Safeguarding Service
* Consulting on mental health issues to teams within the Family Safeguarding Service
* Attending team meetings and group supervisions as needed in the Family Safeguarding team
* Assisting the service user to engage in relevant adult mental health services and contributing to the development and implementation of service evaluation measures
* Undertaking short-term supportive, psychologically informed intervention work with parents who have anxiety and other mental health difficulties that impact their engagement with the Family Safeguarding Service
* Co-facilitating training, workshops, and disseminating knowledge of mental health difficulties across the team
About Us
The Family Safeguarding Service is based within Lancashire County Council (LCC); the Mental Health Team within Family Safeguarding is employed by Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) and seconded to LCC. LSCFT provides a range of mental health services, including secondary mental health care. The Trust also provides physical health and well-being services in the community, with flexible working patterns encouraged.
Job Details
Band: Band 6
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time (flexible working options available)
Location: Locality satellite offices across Lancashire
Reference: 351-BAY837-JD
Qualifications
* Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (e.g. RMN, SW, OT)
Knowledge
* Detailed knowledge of the impact of risk and protective factors that affect people with mental health problems
* In-depth knowledge of mental health problems
Experience
* Post-qualification experience of clinical work with service users experiencing a range of mental health problems
* Experience of delivering evidence-based psychosocial interventions in a time-limited framework
* Evidence of assessment across a broad range of mental health problems
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