CAMHS Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

23.25 hours per week.

The Infant Mental Health Practitioner role sits within The Infant Mental Health Pathway within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Plymouth working to a model of delivery that meets the needs of Infants, children, young people and families in the city.

We are looking to recruit an Infant Mental Health Practitioner band 6 WTE into our Infant Mental Health Pathway to work with children 0-5 years and their families. The direct work will cover the 0-5 years age range with consultations with families & professionals, providing targeted therapeutic interventions and assessments within the I-THRIVE framework. This will also include delivering bespoke training to external services.

The team is a community-based, innovative and needs-led response to infants, young children and families across the full care pathway.

"Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility"

A professional registration is required for this role.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

To work as an Infant Mental health practitioner as part of CAMHS infant mental health pathway to deliver consultation, assessment & therapeutic interventions working with infants; young children from 0-5 years old and their parents/ carers within I-THRIVE model. Co-ordination and implementation of evidence-based targeted assessments & interventions in a timely manner using outcome measures. Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources. To actively participate in line management junior members of staff. To provide consultation to parents with completing request for involvement through a self-referral process and sign-posting to other services. To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS pathways across the city. To develop and maintain relationships with providers, statutory and non-statutory. To maintain confidentiality in respect of the Infant & Families at all times. Communicate clearly with children, their families and all other health professionals. Actively participate in clinical governance & quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit. Deliver training to staff both within and external to Livewell when indicated and within scope of experience. To complete Livewell child protection supervisors training in line with the safeguarding policy and to be able to provide child protection supervision. Attend & contribute to the team meetings.

Please see job description

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.

We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.

Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:

Protected CPD time for registered staff

Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff

Leadership & mentoring programmes

Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship into Nurse Training

A Robust Preceptorship

A bespoke induction programme

Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.

Date posted

19 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,339 to £44,962 a year pa, pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

B9832-2024-NM-9451-2

Job locations

Tamar Folk Children's Centre

Victoria Road Primary School

Plymouth

PL5 1RH

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking to recruit an Infant Mental Health Practitioner into our Infant Mental Health Pathway to work with children 0-5 years and their families. The direct work will cover the 0-5 years’ age range with consultations with families & professionals and delivering training when required.

The team is a community-based, innovative and needs-led response to infants, young children and families across the full care pathway.

To work as an Infant Mental health practitioner to deliver consultation, assessment and interventions working with infants & young children from 0-5 years old and their parents/ carers.

Co-ordination and implementation of evidence-based targeted interventions incorporating outcome measures.

To co-ordinate and contribute to assessment to ensure that infants and young children access timely assessments and the appropriate targeted interventions.

Take a lead in representing CAMHS in multi-agency meetings and have oversight of mental health element of a multi-agency plan around a child.

To function as a member of the Infant Mental Health Pathway taking appropriate responsibility for the implementation of decisions made by the team.

Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources.

To actively participate in line management with senior and junior members of staff.

To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS community teams across the city.

To develop and maintain relationships with providers, statutory and non-statutory.

To maintain confidentiality in respect of the Infant, Children and Families at all times.

Communicate clearly with children and young people, their families and all other health professional groups about their mental health problems.

Actively participate in clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit, essence of care or clinical policy development.

Deliver group work to patients and/or families of patients.

Deliver training to staff both within and external to Livewell when indicated and within scope of experience

The post holder will be responsible for updating their own practice, knowledge and skills within their sphere of practice including Livewell Southwest mandatory training.
- Expert ability in receiving information, analysing and formulating professional judgments.
- The post holder will provide assessment and other interventions in the setting most appropriate to meet the children and young people’s needs.
- Ability to match children & infants need with available skills and resources.
- - Take a lead in assessments and detailed observations in nursery settings and in the home. Formulate plans for appropriate short-term intervention or to sign post to other team members or external, relevant services.
  - Making appropriate agreed referrals for longer-term treatment as appropriate.
  - Take a lead role in clinical decision-making and collaborating with other team members in the provision of infant, children and families care packages.
  - Ensure the on-going effective use of routine outcome monitoring in line with CYP IAPT.
  - Take a lead role in the identification of risk and the formulation of risk management plans.
  - Provide education to families to enhance their knowledge of infant mental health issues and management of this.
  - Promote resilience and prevention of mental health issues.
  - Maintain high standards of clinical care to infants; young children and their families.
  - To liaise and work with other CAMHS teams to ensure the needs of children and met by the right team, on the right pathway at the right time.
  - Provide support & supervision to new members of staff and students from a variety of disciplines.
  - Freedom to Act:
    - The post holder will be individually accountable for their practice in accordance with the NMC professional Code of Conduct or HCPC.
    - The post holder will actively participate in line management supervision with the Team Manager of the Team.
    - The post holder will actively participate in clinical supervision in accordance with Livewell Southwest policy.
    - The post holder will actively participate in the Livewell Southwest appraisal system.
    - The post holder will carry out other duties commensurate with the position as required.Mental Effort:
      - Accurate manual and electronic record keeping whilst coping with constant interruptions and distraction in the work place for example: telephone calls and questions from colleagues.
      - Constantly deal with sensitive, intricate and complex clinical and service decisions whilst frequently being required to change from one activity to another at a third party request, i.e. Telephone or staff interruption and be able to respond in a positive and constructive manner to emergency situations.
      - Managing to extract information from people with communication difficulties due to acute distressing
      - mental health problems, often in noisy or busy environments.
      - Home visits to multi-occupied buildings, some without lifts.
        
        Frequent driving to different areas of the city.
        
        Sitting at a computer terminal for long periods of time.
        
        To be able to sit for prolonged periods of time whilst conducting assessments
        Emotional Effort:
        
        People who are very difficult to engage within a therapeutic relationship.
        
        Ability to cope with stress generated from the constant changing priorities within the Team.
        
        Ability to make clinical decisions to meet the needs of infant, children and families in the community setting.