Job Description

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 Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, or Therapists to join us as a Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Worker (PMHW) in our Under 18 Wellbeing team on a full time 12 month fixed term contract. There may be potential for a full time role at the end of this period although it is initially advertised as cover for a secondment.



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



The roles will be based in our East and Central localities.



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



Present webinars on children's mental health



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.



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 & 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



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 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, click APPLY!



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