Band 6 CAMHS Intensive Outreach MH Practitioner - Bristol

Job overview

Are you an experienced CAMHS clinician looking for a new opportunity and are passionate about working with young people and their carers.  To make a positive difference with supporting our families through a mental health crisis and ensuring they have the best possible patient experience and care.

We are looking for a two Band 6 CAMHS clinician to work in the CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team. There is one position in our hospital/crisis function, and one position within our intensive outreach function. These posts are for 12 months on a fixed term basis.

We are looking for a suitable candidate who can bring skills, experience and enthusiasm to meet the needs of children/young people with complex social, emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental and mental health needs.

In this important role, you will use your extensive skills and experience as a mental health practitioner to deliver high quality care, developing and sustaining relationships across agencies and working as a core member of a multi-disciplinary team. Using both evidence based practice and routine outcome measures, you will use a strength-based approach to work collaboratively with service users, in line with CYP-IAPT key principles.

We are a progressive and dynamic service that work using evidence-based therapeutic treatments and approaches but also foreground anti-oppressive practice and diversity and equality as part of our daily working.

Main duties of the job

Hospital Function

The post holder will be involved in working within the CAMHS hospital team care pathway, assessing young people that present to an acute hospital and are experiencing a mental health crisis.  Clinicians will be expected to undertake a comprehensive mental health needs assessment and be able to identify the forward care pathways for the young person and their carer(s).

We work across all localities including North Bristol, East & Central Bristol, South Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, and aim to build strong working relationships with all of these services.  We cover a 7 day period working a number of shifts. These are 8-4pm, 12-8pm and 4pm until midnight and weekend working.

Intensive Outreach Function

The post holder will provide Intensive Outreach to young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties, such as Anxiety, Low Mood, Emotional Dysregulation and Psychosis, covering the area of Bristol & South Glos & North Somerset. Supported by the team and OTR colleagues to provide, outreach, containment, extended community assessments and multiagency networking.  This could include appointments in the YP’s home, school and in the community.

We cover a 7 day period covering 9am-8pm. This role may also include covering the Emergency Response Line.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provision of rapid access to specialist CAMHS advice and support and to enable referrers to deal more effectively with a range of mental health problems.

Management of high risk young people in the community through intensive support.

Increased detection of mental health problems/needs with improved care, treatment and promotion of improved understanding of and confidence in the delivery of mental health care and collaboration with all agencies involved in the care of young people and families.

Provision of targeted formal and informal learning opportunities for all staff within the primary care teams to develop their knowledge and capabilities within the mental health component of holistic care

Provision of information sign-posting and support for young people and families.

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding.  All NQSW’s are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

Please see attached Job Description for further details.