Child and Social Care (CSC) Mental Health Practitioner

We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner with excellent assessment skills to join a newly established and innovative multi-agency team led by Lewisham Children's Social Care.

This team will provide integrated mental health, substance misuse and family support for parents of children on statutory Child in Need Plans.

The overall aim of this team is to improve the safety and wellbeing of children affected by the substance use and mental health needs of their parents and carers. This will be achieved through providing support to parents to ensure that substance misuse no longer impacts on their ability to care for their child, and to improve their mental health and wellbeing, including

This is a borough based role and is a fixed term post until 30.4.26 and is a unique opportunity to provide a multi agency approach for this client group.

Main duties of the job

To work collaboratively with a multi agency team to provide expert mental health assessments to parents with mental health and substance misuse issues.

to contribute to mental health care planning and provide interventions to support sustainable recover.

To identify and support care pathways as required with primary and secondary care.

to provide complex case management and addressing Safeguarding for a small group of individuals who cannot be supported by third sector,

To attend and contribute to any social care of mental health meetings to support recovery

About us

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes

Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars

Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites

NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services

Wellbeing events

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Childcare vouchers

We look forward to receiving your application.

Job description
Job responsibilities

The overall aim of this team is to improve the safety and wellbeing of children affected by the substance use and mental health needs of their parents and carers. This will be achieved through providing support to parents to ensure that substance misuse no longer impacts on their ability to care for their child, and to improve their mental health and wellbeing, including by addressing the underlying trauma that may be contributing to their substance misuse.

The successful candidate will have a key role in this team through providing expert mental health assessments, care planning and evidenced based health and psychosocial care interventions to parents within the caseload. We are looking for an individual with a particular interest in working with adults also impacted by drug and/or alcohol misuse.

As this role will be working in partnership between SLAM and Lewisham children's social care, there is an expectation for joint working. This will include attending relevant meetings within the scope of practise with London borough of Lewisham council. The post holder will receive supervision from both social care colleagues and SLaM. The post holder will be based with the social care team and provide specialist mental health assessments and interventions as required. The successful candidate will support identification of pathway into secondary care services if required.