Location: Tiverton, EX16 6TG
Salary: £29970.00 to £36483.00
Date posted: 19th May 2025
Closing date: 1st June 2025
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is delighted to advertise for a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to join our Assertive Outreach Team, part of the Urgent Care Pathway.
The Assertive Outreach Team works with children and young people who are at risk of hospital admission or stepping up into more intensive services, offering intensive community support to reduce crisis and promote emotional recovery. This is an opportunity to be part of a small, dynamic and trauma-informed team offering high-quality, evidence-based care that keeps young people safely connected to their families and communities.
The service operates between 9am and 8pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5pm on weekends and bank holidays, offering flexibility and genuine teamwork to meet the needs of the children we support.
Main duties of the job
Provide mental health assessments and risk evaluations in community settings
Deliver structured interventions and outreach care as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Work collaboratively with young people, families and professionals to reduce risk and maintain community support
Contribute to care planning, documentation, and safeguarding processes
Support a recovery-focused, person-centred approach to care
Participate in clinical meetings, supervision, and reflective practice
We Offer:
A supportive, experienced and values-led team
Opportunities for supervision, CPD and development
A role where you can make a real difference in crisis prevention and emotional wellbeing
Strong multi-agency partnerships across health, education and social care
If youre a newly qualified or experienced practitioner passionate about making a difference in urgent care for young people, wed love to hear from you.
About us
Successfulapplicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )
Children and Family Health Devon(CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improvehealth outcomes for children and young people in Devon.
CFHD provides integrated care andtreatment for children and young people across physical and mental health whichare provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon PartnershipTrust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure wedeliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of ourservices, based on the i-Thrive Framework.
CFHD works closely with our localuniversities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where wesupport students in clinical training placements and in addition support ourown staff to undertake post graduate training.
Our integrated care and treatmenthas been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and theirfamilies/carers.
Wewould like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to beunderstanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make usfeel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills andexperience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment thatis informal and without pressure.
Job responsibilities
FullVacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/PersonSpecification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supportinginformation from the role requirements or person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A professional qualification at degree level or equivalent e.g. Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy.
* Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England.
* Q3 It will be an essential requirement for newly qualified social workers to demonstrate that they have completed The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) before commencing in post or there will be a requirement to complete this within the first 12 months of employment with the Trust.
* Evidence of relevant continuing professional development
Experience
* Post graduate experience working within mental health environments or willingness to complete the DPT preceptorship programme
* Experience managing a caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
* Demonstrates sound theoretical knowledge of children and young people mental health practice
* Working within a community setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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