Senior Practitioner Harm Minimisation LeadinMansfieldinMansfieldPUBLISHED TUE 17 DEC 2024
ABL Health LtdrUrYCuVR
Impactful Role, The position allows you to make a significant difference in the emotional health and resilience of children and young people, directly supporting those in need.
Diverse Work Environment, As part of a varied clinical team, you will engage in a range of activities including individual and group therapy, peer support, and risk assessment, ensuring no two days are the same.
Professional Development, The role includes managerial and clinical supervision, alongside opportunities to deliver training and contribute to clinical record audits, enhancing your professional growth.
Collaboration with Multiple Stakeholders, You will have the chance to liaise with various local services, promoting collaboration and ensuring young people receive comprehensive care and support.
Innovative and Adaptive Work, The position emphasizes co-production and ongoing innovation, allowing you to creatively develop interventions that are tailored to the needs of children and their families.
Strong Ethical Focus, Working in harm minimization, you will prioritize the safety and wellbeing of young people while advocating for their needs, contributing to a supportive and trusting environment.
Flexibility, The role involves both face-to-face and virtual interactions, providing flexibility in how you engage with children, young people, and their families.
The Senior Practitioner Harm Minimisation Lead at ABL Health Ltd in Mansfield will support a team in delivering evidence-based interventions tailored to children and young people facing mild to moderate mental health challenges. This role involves providing individual and group support, conducting assessments, and developing safety plans to manage risks related to self-harm or suicidal ideation. The practitioner will engage in proactive service development, liaise with other services, and maintain thorough records of client interactions.
Candidates must be experienced mental health practitioners capable of working in a fast-paced environment while supervising a team of counselors. The role requires strong communication skills to establish therapeutic relationships with young clients and their families, while also promoting harm minimisation strategies. Additionally, the practitioner will support training, conduct clinical record audits, and develop innovative therapeutic methods, all while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team atmosphere.
Candidates must be experienced mental health practitioners capable of working in a fast-paced environment while supervising a team of counselors. The role requires strong communication skills to establish therapeutic relationships with young clients and their families, while also promoting harm minimisation strategies. Additionally, the practitioner will support training, conduct clinical record audits, and develop innovative therapeutic methods, all while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team atmosphere.
Impactful Role, The position allows you to make a significant difference in the emotional health and resilience of children and young people, directly supporting those in need.
Diverse Work Environment, As part of a varied clinical team, you will engage in a range of activities including individual and group therapy, peer support, and risk assessment, ensuring no two days are the same.
Professional Development, The role includes managerial and clinical supervision, alongside opportunities to deliver training and contribute to clinical record audits, enhancing your professional growth.
Collaboration with Multiple Stakeholders, You will have the chance to liaise with various local services, promoting collaboration and ensuring young people receive comprehensive care and support.
Innovative and Adaptive Work, The position emphasizes co-production and ongoing innovation, allowing you to creatively develop interventions that are tailored to the needs of children and their families.
Strong Ethical Focus, Working in harm minimization, you will prioritize the safety and wellbeing of young people while advocating for their needs, contributing to a supportive and trusting environment.
Flexibility, The role involves both face-to-face and virtual interactions, providing flexibility in how you engage with children, young people, and their families.
You will support a team to deliver person centred outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties to support them to improve their emotional health and build resilience. This will include (F2f & virtual) individual, group work and peer support.
This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service at Be U Notts. Managerial and clinical supervision will be provided. You will lead on providing harm minimisation advice to young people and families where they are presenting with risk. You will be assisting with the triage and assessment of clients and delivering interventions. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you will work as part of a diverse clinical team pro-actively developing the service through co-production, delivery, and ongoing innovation.
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Main Duties and responsibilities:
- Providing detailed safety plans with CYP who are showing signs of risk to self via self-harm and/or suicidal ideation, via telephone or MS Teams
- To be able to use risk assessments to understand YP level of risk
- To be able to provide support and intervention to manage YP risk.
- To be able to escalate risk identified when working with YP appropriately to safeguard the YP.
- To escalate/signpost YP risk where appropriate to local services.
- To liaise with other services to ensure YP gains appropriate harm minimisation advice.
- Provide detailed and timely record keeping of YP risk and support given to YP.
- To support the wider staff team with day-to-day risk and clinical support where required
- Delivering professional training where required
- Supporting with clinical record audits where required
- Supporting with more information calls to YP, professionals and families where required
- Utilising analytical skills, specialist knowledge and experience provide a comprehensive assessment and formulation of the presenting problem taking into account the childs educational attainment, chronological/ developmental stage, inner world / emotional wellbeing, the mental health & wellbeing of the childs parents/carers, the family dynamics and environment, and the broader social context including school.
- Develop a planned short-term intervention utilising behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic, and systemic perspectives as indicated by the formulation, the needs of the client and the evidence base.
- To deliver one-off or short-term therapeutic interventions to children and young people, working independently which may at times mean lone working.
- To develop alternatives to one-to-one therapeutic work i.e., group work, play therapy
- To facilitate peer support with and for children and young people.
- To provide information, advice, guidance, and support as part of the single point of access function and support service with triage and assessment of CYP referrals.
- To maintain confidential case notes and records in a timely manner ensuring that these are stored securely using the specified case management systems.
- To develop links to other agencies and services and have a good understanding of local services for signposting and onward referrals
- To support/cover other senior practitioners with tasks to support the team where required.
Communication
- Be able to communicate and engage with children and young people appropriate to individual needs.
- Ensure young people feel listened to, feel in control, and are respected
- To be able to confidently liaise with parents of CYP presenting with risk to support minimisation of harm to the YP.
- The ability to communicate sensitively and compassionately with CYP and parents.
Skills & Competencies required:
- An experienced and qualified mental health practitioner supervisor used to a fast-paced environment and supporting a team of counsellors
- Experienced in working with children and young people across early intervention / mental health settings and experienced in engaging the whole family
- Confident in supporting / offering interventions to children and young people presenting mild to moderate risk behaviours
- Able to build strong therapeutic relationships in a short period of time
- Positive and proactive to achieve the highest standards and outcomes in engagement with children, young people, their parent/carers and professionals
- Adept in communication and confident communicating with CYP (Children and Young Peoples), their parents/carers and health professionals
- Open, respectful, committed to equality and inclusiveness and motivated by new ideas and perspectives
- A team player
- Be able to work independently using initiative and problem-solving skills to ensure best outcomes for CYP.
- Be able to manage own diary effectively.
- Any other duties appropriate to role
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