Primary Mental Health Worker (PMHW)
Passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people? Want to work as part of our dynamic community Early Intervention CAMHS service within a friendly, supportive, and creative multi-disciplinary team? Dedicated to providing high-quality advice, support and brief interventions to children and young people under 18 experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. Do you have a professional qualification in nursing, social worker, therapy or equivalent?

Suffolk Early Intervention CAMHS is looking to recruit a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, therapist or allied health professional to join us as Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Worker (PMHW) in our Under 18 Wellbeing team on a 30 hour part time basis.

It is an exciting time to join our service as we continue transitioning to a place-based approach (3 locality teams - East, Central and West Suffolk) working closely with partners across education, health, and social care.

The role will be based in our East (based in Ipswich).

Main duties of the job
The PMHW is a diverse and interesting role, working holistically within an MDT, alongside Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), Psychological Therapists and Counsellors. PMHWs:

• Offer consultation and training for schools and professionals
• Facilitate groups for parents and support delivery of therapeutic groups for children and young people
• Undertake assessments and direct work with children, young people, and families, managing a caseload

This role provides you with many opportunities for learning about wider mental health issues for children, young and families and service pathways. You will need to have a good understanding of mental health difficulties, assessment, theoretical knowledge, and a range of therapeutic interventions.

About us
Suffolk Early Intervention CAMHS proactively seeks to provide opportunities to develop and enhance the clinical skills and practice of our team, enhancing direct work with children, young people and families. During induction, you will shadow colleagues undertaking assessments, facilitating groups, and providing consultation to schools and other agencies and professionals. Training and support will be provided to gain expertise in delivering an early intervention approach. You will also benefit from regular clinical and management supervision and in-house training on CBT and Systemic approaches.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house and external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

Job responsibilities
You will work in collaboration with colleagues from health, education, social care teams, youth offending and the voluntary sector and this could include joint assessments with other professionals.

This post requires a core profession of: Nurse, Social Worker, Health Visitor or Occupational Therapist.

These roles will be based in Suffolk in our East and Central Localities you will be the named Primary Mental Health Worker for a group of schools within your locality. There is a need to travel across Suffolk for meetings and training.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, Apply through our website.

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Essential Qualifications

• Appropriate professional qualification e.g.; Registered Nurse on Parts 1, 3, 5 or 13 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register; Social Worker; Occupational therapist or other relevant professional qualification.

Essential Experience

• Experience within Specialist CAMHS setting
• Clinical supervisory experience and willingness to provide clinical supervision

Desirable Experience

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation
• Experience of Research/ Audit/ Evaluation

Essential Knowledge

• Knowledge of child and adolescent development, child and adolescent mental health disorders and knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions within the CAMHS speciality.
• Awareness of personal and professional responsibilities in regards to safeguarding and can demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding procedures and practice guidelines.

Location: Ipswich, IP1 2GA

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.