Family Safeguarding Mental Health Practitioner
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or OT to join our Family Safeguarding Service as a Mental Health Practitioner based in Bury.
This is a unique role with feedback from other pilot sites stating that social workers and adult specialist staff say it improves engagement and outcomes for families. DfE published evaluation in 2020.
We are looking for an organised, compassionate, and reflective individual who is passionate about working collaboratively with families to safeguard children.
We are seeking a skilled mental health practitioner who is eager to work in a multidisciplinary team to benefit families in Bury. You would provide specialist assessment and interventions for parents of children open to the Family Safeguarding Team who have identified mental health issues impacting their ability to safeguard their children.
The integrated service offers preventative early intervention. The overall aim is to provide families with the right mental health support, at the right time, with the aim of keeping families together when it is safe to do so.
This post is funded on an annual basis by the Department of Education. If funding is discontinued, we will support you to find an alternative role in Pennine Care through the redeployment process.
You will join a team of practitioners to provide high quality safe and effective care for our service users. You will receive regular clinical supervision from one of the Clinical Psychologists in the team and there is a strong emphasis on reflective supervision.
Key Responsibilities
* Completing mental health needs and risk screening assessments.
* Signposting service users to relevant services.
* Consulting on mental health issues to teams within the Family Safeguarding Service.
* Attending team meetings and group supervision 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 ability to engage with the Family Safeguarding Service.
* Co-facilitating training, workshops, and disseminating knowledge of mental health difficulties across the team.
The Family Safeguarding Service is based within Bury Council (BC) and the Mental Health Practitioners within Family Safeguarding are employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust (PCNFT) and seconded to BC. PCFT provides a range of services including secondary mental health care, NHS Talking Therapies in Bury, and child/adolescent services. Flexible working options include term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. Applicants are encouraged to state any requested patterns on their application and discuss options at interview.
For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Sam Noble
Email: samantha.noble@nhs.net
Telephone: 0161 716 1182
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Part-time
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* Health Care Provider
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