Job Description
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.Job overviewRisk Support Liaison Worker – Permanent- Full time 37.5 hours per weekLancashire & South Cumbria CYPMH East services.This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our CYPMH Team, together with our partners across Lancashire & South Cumbria as we move towards mobilising the Risk Support Model in response to transforming Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services as part of the iTHRIVE transformation programme.The Risk Support Model is a Lancashire and South Cumbria (L&SC) wide programme and we are looking to recruit our Risk Support Liaison Practitioner, who will be integral in fulfilling the Risk Support approach that has been developed through the CAMHS Redesign Co-production work.The post holder will be part of the Lancashire & South Cumbria innovative and exciting new approach to Risk Support across the integrated care system footprint, yet with a very strong local focus on working across a range of partner organisations including local CAMHS teams, Children's Social Care, education and voluntary sector partners to establish a coordinated, effective, efficient, high quality and consistent approach to Risk Support across Lancashire and South Cumbria.Main duties of the jobWhilst the post holder will be based within local Child and Young People’s Mental Health teams, colocation within other partner organisations in particular Children's Social Care Teams will form part of the working week, to help embed a culture of shared risk and collaborative working arrangements in which young people, parents, carers and professionals feel supported. The post holder must be comfortable with complexity and risk, be reflexive, resilient and have experience of sitting within times of considerable uncertainty, where anxieties amongst others can be high.
As part of the Risk Support approach the post holder will also be a key member of the AMBIT Community across Lancashire & South Cumbria and should feel confident in modelling the AMBIT approach across the children's and young people's workforce including education, social care and health professionals, as well as delivering training to partner organisation within their footprint.Working for our organisationLSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing.
We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesFor more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification. Person specificationQualificationsEssential criteria- Core profession (HCPC, Social Care, Nursing) or recognised degree level broad based health & social care qualification OR IAPT qualificationKnowledgeEssential criteria- Evidence of knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.- Evidence of knowledge of the evidence base in their practice.- Evidence of understanding of child development and psychosocial influences- Evidence of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.ExperienceEssential criteria- Evidence of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.- Evidence of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.- Evidence of experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received.
If you are not invited to interview within four weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.Please note that further communication from LSCFT will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCFT to contact them.Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document. If you use AI to assist with your application, you must declare this.
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