Job overview

Surrey and Borders is looking for someone is passionate about developing and providing high quality, evidence based care and treatment to young people with moderate to severe emotional and mental health problems.

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, 9AM to 5 PM

Work Location: Unither House, Curfew Bell Road, Chertsey, KT16 9FG

Job Purpose

- 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.

Main duties of the job

• Report to the Service Manager and contribute to the development of service pathways and delivery.

• Provide timely assessments for children and young people presenting with moderate to severe mental health needs, including deliberate self-harm assessments.

• Arrange appropriate follow-up appointments and ensure effective signposting to relevant services.

• Provide advice, support, and education to the wider professional network, including the Hub Team.

• Work closely with the Mindworks Alliance, School Based Needs teams, Surrey Well Being Partnership, and other partner agencies to respond to referrals.

• Conduct specialist assessments and provide treatment to children, adolescents, and their families either independently or jointly with Hub staff.

• Carry out autonomous clinical assessments for young people with complex or co-morbid mental health needs.

• Work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) providing assessment and treatment for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties.

• Manage an individual caseload from referral through to discharge or transfer, including medium to high-risk cases.

• Complete and oversee initial assessments and facilitate warm handovers or referrals to appropriate services.

• Participate in the Hub duty rota and respond to queries from families and the wider professional network.

• Develop crisis and contingency plans with young people and families, including risk assessment and positive risk-taking approaches.

Working for our organisation

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.