Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for 2 Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join the Primary Intermediate Mental Health Team (PIMHT). These newly created roles will work into the Family Safeguarding Teams within Children's Social Care.  Day to day, the practitioners will be based within the Family Safeguarding Teams, whilst working alongside practitioners in the PIMHT to ensure specialist support mental health supervision. 

The Family Safeguarding Model is a whole family approach to working with children and families that supports parents to create sustained change for themselves and for their family.  Within Blackpool Council the core social teams will now also include different workers; social workers, family support workers,  mental health practitioners, domestic abuse and recovery workers who will work together to support families when they need it. 

Blackpool Council core principles that we developed with Blackpool families, Blackpool Families Rock, are still at the centre of the service, including the Family Safeguarding approach. These guide all practitioners to work with families in positive, respectful ways’.

Main duties of the job

• A key member of the Family Safeguarding Teams within Children’s Social Care.

• The practitioners will provide mental health support to adults who are known to the Blackpool Family Safeguarding Team and are experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, they will facilitate onwards referrals to secondary care mental health services where this is indicated.  The Practitioners will not provide urgent mental health interventions.  

• The practitioners will work as part of a co-located multi-disciplinary team of children’s social workers, family workers, domestic abuse and recovery workers to work alongside families, to offer support when they need and reduce risks to children open to the Family Safeguarding Teams. 

• The practitioners will take a multi-disciplinary approach to working with families including children and families social workers and family workers, working alongside Adult Specialist Workers to provide help and support in relation to issues associated with parental domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental ill-health.

Working for our organisation

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.

As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.