Senior Child and Adolescent Mental Health PractitionerNHS

Job summary

Join us in transforming Child and Adolescent Mental Health across Cornwall

We are looking for an innovative and experienced practitioner to provide community-based mental health support as part of a joined-up neighbourhood approach to care.

The CYP Practitioner is a newly created post that will work as part of the Truro Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT), sitting at the heart of a three-post child and young people mental health model developed in partnership with CAMHS, and local voluntary and community sector organisations.

This role takes a whole-family approach, recognising that a child's wellbeing is closely connected to the wellbeing of their parent or carer. The role focuses on understanding and addressing the needs of both the child and the parent, recognising that children's emotional and mental health difficulties can often be linked to unresolved trauma experienced by parents or carers. By working with the whole family, the role helps create safer, more stable relationships and improves outcomes for children and families.

The post holder will work primarily with children and young people presenting with mental health difficulties but will also consider parental needs drawing from models and frameworks of social inequalities and community psychology, for example The Power Threat Meaning Framework.

The ability and interest in developing and delivery of place based early intervention in partnership with primary care, and the voluntary sector is key for this role.

Main duties of the job

About Truro INT

An Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) brings together primary care, social care, the NHS, and voluntary and community organisations to work collaboratively in support of local people. By combining expertise and resources, the team is collectively responsible for improving the health and wellbeing of the community through holistic, person-centered care that is flexible, joined up, proactive and preventative.

Truro INT has a shared ambition to innovate and develop a sustainable model of care for the future. Working in partnership across organisations and with local communities, the team focuses on understanding the needs of the neighbourhood, building strong relationships, and communicating in ways that inspire action. Through reflection, collaboration and a focus on what matters most to residents, Truro INT is helping to improve health and care outcomes across the city.

Job description

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About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.