Clinical Practitioner

Responsibilities

• Report to the Service Manager and provide leadership in the development of the pathway and delivery of service.
• To provide timely assessment of children and young people who present with moderate to severe mental health needs, including deliberate self-harm assessments and provide a timely follow up appointment and signpost appropriately.
• To provide support, advice and education to the wider network including the Hub Team. To build knowledge and skills of staff within the alliance partnership in the care and treatment of children and young people. Provide specialist mental health assessments and evidence-based treatment for children and young people (CYP) presenting with moderate to severe and complex needs.
• Work autonomously and collaboratively within the Mindworks Alliance network, including Mindworks Alliance, School Based Needs, and Surrey Wellbeing Partnership.
• Manage a caseload from referral to discharge or transfer, including medium to high-risk cases.
• Participate in the Hub duty rota, responding to referrals, queries, and risk concerns from families and professionals.
• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments, including risk assessments and crisis planning.
• Lead on care planning, warm handovers, and safe discharge processes with documented safety plans.
• Provide consultation and clinical advice to multidisciplinary colleagues and partner agencies.
• Contribute to outcome monitoring, audit, research activity, and ensure interventions are evidence-based.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, mentoring, and support to junior staff and students.
• Lead on clinical standards, governance processes, and the development of guidelines and protocols.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding, child protection procedures, and relevant legislation.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.