Hybrid working, and a warm welcome accompany this opportunity to work creatively with Young People and their families within the Community based Youth Team in Kings Lynn, West Norfolk. We are a multi-disciplinary team promoting positive Mental Health and providing treatment interventions for Young People aged 14 to 25 years. The role is for a fixed period of 12 months, 30.00 hours per week to cover maternity leave. We strive to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated Mental Health Professionals, focussing on the needs of Young People providing a needs-led approach. We are seeking like-minded clinicians to work alongside us in supporting Young Peoples Wellbeing and Mental Health. This a great opportunity to learn, grow and develop in a supportive environment within a fantastic team dedicated to offering great care. If this sounds like the role for you and you would like to come on this exciting journey with us, then please do not hesitate to apply, The ideal candidate will have a strong desire to support young people to reach their goals and be able to demonstrate the following qualities required for the role, these are, experience, passion, resilience, empathy, great communication skills and an ability to be flexible and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Triage of new referrals
• Conducting Assessments
• Supporting and being part of the Duty system within the Team
• Individual Caseload holding and management
• Delivering evidenced based mental health treatment interventions to young people both on a one-to-one basis and in group settings both face to face and using online mediums such as Attend Anywhere, Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
• Multi‑agency working; including working alongside families, acute hospital, primary care sector, social care, education and voluntary services
• Active contribution in team meetings and reflective sessions so that the team can learn, grow, and improve the service we provide
• Within the Youth Team we pride ourselves on the care we give to both our service users and each other. You will find a positive and supportive environment with a strong team ethic. Our goals are to provide great care with great outcomes where we challenge ourselves to grow both individually as clinicians and collectively as a team, so that we can better meet the needs of the young people.

Benefits

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & 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