Mental Health Practitioner – Complex Care Services

Salary: £35,000 - £38, 907, depending on experience

Permanent: Full Time/ 40 Hours

Location: Covering the North West region/Greater Manchester East & West

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.

Job Role

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.

Our teams are fully committed to Cambian’s vision. They understand the challenges and rewards of working with our young people and know that every day they will achieve things that really matter.

This is no ordinary role. The pace is fast. There’s lots of variety. 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.

Further duties are described in the attached Job Description.

 Candidate Profile

Registered with the relevant professional organisation (HCPC, NMC, BACP)
SWE 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.
Be a strong team player, with excellent communication skills
Have excellent organisational and time management skills
Ability to plan and implement therapeutic and trauma-informed approaches.
Experience of using a consultation model/approaches.
Understand the importance of reflective practice.
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.
The ability to work under pressure and remain calm in stressful and difficult situations.
Ability to assess and mitigate risk of young people.
Ability to work autonomously and make decisions and to work as part of a team.
Ability to establish and maintain clear boundaries in respect of personal and professional responsibility.
Demonstrate a high level of accuracy, attention to detail and able to maintain records throughout all services.
Passionate about working with vulnerable at-risk young people.
Non-judgemental empathetic attitude.
A willingness to undertake all training relevant to the role.
Full clean driving licence. This post may involve travelling throughout the county.

Beneficial

Previous experience in working with Looked After Children (LAC) is advantageous
Completion of trauma informed practitioner diploma
CAMHS experience
An interest in the ongoing development of The Cambian Group.

In return we offer:

Full support from a multidisciplinary team
Regular clinical supervision
Meetings and peer support
Developmental opportunities
Research opportunities & support
Internal/external training on new initiatives