Job Description Mental Health Practitioner
Salary: £38, 907, depending on experience
Permanent: Full Time/ 40 Hours
Cambian Group, the UK’s largest provider of specialist services in children’s residential care, education, mental health rehabilitation and learning disabilities, is looking for a dedicated individual to join the company as a Mental Health Practitioner. The post will require someone with previous experience of working in residentials and CAMHS settings, specifically within Looked After Children’s services and being familiar with consultation model as service delivery.
We are seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to embed a trauma-informed approach, working across our complex care community residential services, with young people displaying social, emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.
If you’ve got excellent assessment skills and strong therapeutic consultation experiences gained in a Residential setting or working with Looked After Children, we can offer you a rewarding role with a difference.
They understand the challenges and rewards of working with our young people and know that every day they will achieve things that really matter.
You shall be spending most of your time out in the field and you’ll need to be able to provide a therapeutic service to young people placed within community residential settings. You will be providing specialist assessments of children and young people`s needs, including formulating and implementing plans of therapeutic intervention/management of our children and young people’s presentations to embed a trauma-informed approaches and psychological understanding the difficulties within the current evidence-based practice. This role will ensure our young people receive timely support to in both the school and home setting to help support them with the trauma they have experienced and to enable them to make safe, confident and independent decisions in the future.
Offering lots of autonomy, your role will involve assessing and identifying the needs to our young people and staff by meeting them through consultation/training and reflective practice.
Registered with the relevant professional organisation (HCPC, NMC, BACP)A higher-level qualification in a relevant subject such as counselling, therapeutic support, psychotherapy, Social Worker or Nursing. Experience of working with vulnerable young people in a therapeutic or counselling setting.An understanding of social, emotional and mental health difficulties.An understanding of the complex and multiple needs of vulnerable young people in both the school and home environment.Ability to assess and mitigate risk of young people.Passionate about working with vulnerable at-risk young people.A willingness to undertake all training relevant to the role.Full clean driving licence. This post may involve travelling throughout the county.
Previous experience in working with Looked After Children (LAC) is advantageousCompletion of trauma informed practitioner diplomaCAMHS experienceAn interest in the ongoing development of The Cambian Group.
Full support from a multidisciplinary teamRegular clinical supervisionMeetings and peer supportDevelopmental opportunitiesResearch opportunities & supportInternal/external training on new initiatives
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care.
All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.