Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join our Family Safeguarding Service as a Mental Health Practitioner based in Lancashire on a permanent full-time basis (flexible working options are available). This post is open to those with a Recognised Core Mental Health Professional Qualification (RMN, SW, OT). We are looking for an organised, compassionate, and reflective individual who is passionate about working collaboratively with families to safeguard children. Are you an energetic, skilled mental health professional? Are you somebody that relishes change and service development? Do you see the opportunity to positively influence a person's emotional health and well-being as a privilege? If so, we want you to join us on our journey to be the best we can be for our families.

The service is funded by Lancashire County Council to provide specialist assessment and treatment for parents of children open to the Family Safeguarding Service who have identified mental health difficulties which are impacting upon their ability to safeguard their children. The integrated service is positioned at the primary care level, offering preventative early intervention.

Responsibilities

• Completing mental health needs and risk screening assessments.
• Signposting service users to relevant services or referrals to Clinical Psychologists within Family Safeguarding Service.
• Consulting on mental health issues to teams within the Family Safeguarding Service.
• Attending team meetings and group supervisions as needed in Family Safeguarding team.
• Assisting the service user to engage in relevant adult mental health services and contributing to the development and implementation of service evaluation measures.
• Undertaking short-term supportive, psychologically informed intervention work with parents who have anxiety and other mental health difficulties that impacts upon their ability to engage with the Family Safeguarding Service.
• Co-facilitating training, workshops, and disseminating knowledge of mental health difficulties across the team/s.

About the Service and Partnerships

The Family Safeguarding Service is based within Lancashire County Council (LCC) and the Mental Health Team within Family Safeguarding is employed by Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) and seconded to LCC. We therefore work closely with both organisations. LSCFT provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

What we offer

Would you like a protected caseload (maximum of 15), without care coordination responsibilities, so you can focus on providing collaborative psychosocial interventions? Look no further. This could be the job you've been looking for!

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as: term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.