CAMHS Practitioner

Job summary

Previous applicants need not apply.

We are currently looking to recruit enthusiastic and creative Band 6 CAMHS Practitioners to join our Core CAMHS Team.

We are a multi-disciplinary team offering a diverse range of professional approaches, including Family Therapy, Nursing, Occupational therapy. Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Social work, and Mental health Practitioners. We work with young people with who are experiencing moderate to severe emotional, behavioural, or mental health difficulties. As a team we believe that service user participation and feedback is an integral part of the development and delivery of services and supports care which is person centred and inclusive.

You will have a strong team work ethic, the ability to work autonomously, hold personal accountability and work well under pressure. You will have access to regular individual and group clinical supervision, CPD opportunities within and outside of the service, and the support of a robust and supportive multidisciplinary team. You will also be required to support the team to ensure the smooth running and organisation of the service, contributing towards research, evaluation, and service development, to ensure care is responsive, effective, and equitable.

Main duties of the job

As a CAMHS practitioner, you will be mainly working within a clinical setting in our out-patient clinic although in order meet the needs of our children and young people you may also be required to provide support within other environments such as home, education or community settings.

Your role will be to deliver excellent quality care which empowers children and young people, supports them in their recovery journey and enables them to contribute towards the development of services and care planning. You will work as an integral member for the CAMHS locality team, providing assessments, interventions and care coordination to children, young people, families, and carers. You will have a positive approach to the delivery of care which values working creatively and flexibly in partnership with service users, their networks and the wider professional networks.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team who is striving to make a difference for the children, young people, and families we support, then we would love to hear from you, and for you to be part of our friendly and supportive team. In return we will provide the necessary support and guidance to ensure your development within your role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

-To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Community Team, providing mental health assessments and formulations, through information gathering and analysis, including the use of routine outcome measures and within bio-psychosocial models of mental health.
-To utilise specialist knowledge and evidence-based models of mental health to make decisions about a child or young persons mental health needs.
-To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.
-To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based interventions for individuals and groups to children, young people, families and carers.
-To evaluate and care plan in collaboration with the CAMHS Community Team, and wider CAMHS services, and considering individual, contextual and social factors.
-To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice and care planning.
-To utilise individual, group and peer supervision to support assessments, care planning and decision making.
-To participate in the teams use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS.
-To involve children and young people and family/carers, and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to their assessments and care planning.
-To involve children, young people and families/carers in the development of service provision through co-production, participation and service user evaluation.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential
A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.

Desirable
Post-graduate training in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention

Experience

Essential
Post-qualification experience of assessments, care planning and interventions with children, young people, families or carers.
Experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
Experience of undertaking mental health risk assessments and risk management with children and young people
Demonstrates high standards in written communication

Desirable
Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Working towards agreed targets, demonstrating clinical outcomes.
Experience of working with children with developmental needs.
Lived experience of mental health.

Skills & Abilities

Essential
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to maintain professional boundaries. Willingness and ability to participate as an independent practitioner in assessments.
Ability to teach, train and supervise
Evidence of ability to exercise a high level of judgement and decision making.

Desirable
Ability to assess and treat children and young people with developmental disorder, making reasonable adjustments where needed.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential
Knowledge and understanding of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Knowledge and understanding of child development
Knowledge and understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Knowledge of the Trust's and Local Safeguarding policy and procedures

Other

Desirable
Ability to travel across the county and to various locations on short notice