Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is theplace to be! We have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrenscommunity services and now looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to joinour friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

We are seeking a passionate Band 7Specialist Mental Health Practitioners to support our Integrated Neurodiversity pathway. Wewelcome hearing from practitioners who already hold the NMPqualification. The post will be based in Exeter but may be asked to supportother localities within Devon and Torbay depending on service need. Thesuccessful candidate will have significant experience of providing specialistmental health assessments, neurodevelopmental assessments and providingevidence-based therapies for children and young people who are neurodivergent.They will also hold post-registration mental health qualifications.

You will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work.

Main duties of the job

You will collaborate with children, families, and professionals to adopt a person-centred, holistic approach to care. This involves consistent monitoring of progress, adjustment of treatment plans, and participation in multidisciplinary meetings. Your expertise will contribute to complex cases, service development, and staying abreast of Neurodiversity research and advancements.

As a Specialist Mental Health Practitioner in the Neurodiversity Pathwayyou will evaluate the mental health, emotional well-being, and specificchallenges of children and young people who are neurodivergent. Throughclinical interviews, observations, and standardised assessment tools, you willcontribute to the neurodevelopmental assessment pathway in the service.

You will collaborate with children, families, andprofessionals to adopt a person-centred, holistic approach to care. Thisinvolves consistent monitoring of progress, adjustment of treatment plans, andparticipation in multidisciplinary meetings. Your expertise will contribute tocomplex cases, service development, and staying abreast of Neurodiversityresearch and advancements.

In addition to your direct clinical role, you willengage in wider service duties such as duty, screening, team support throughsupervision and mentoring, and contributing to service improvement initiatives.

About us

Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust ( )

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families / carers.

Our children and young people say

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description / Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families / carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
• Experience of working with children and young peoples mental health needs, families and parents / carers, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
• Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for in the area of childrens mental health, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments
• Experience of safeguarding children and young people and ensuring the safety of children in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential