Band 7 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos

Job overview

We are looking for a motivated clinician to join our South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team based at Kingswood Hub and Patchway Hubs. You will have relevant qualification, core profession registration and experience of working with children and young people, preferably within a community CAMHS service. This role is full-time (37.5 hours per week)

We are a supportive, experienced and creative multi-disciplinary team. We offer individual, family, specialist and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need. You will have the opportunity to utilise your existing skills within core work and/or specialist clinics ideally within our Eating Disorder clinic. Also to further develop your skills and experience with support from our experienced team and our training opportunities.

South Gloucestershire CAMHS is a supportive, experienced and progressive multi-disciplinary team. We offer individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need. We have radically transformed in recent years including improved staff retention, fantastic team skill mix and opportunities for innovative practice.

Main duties of the job

To work individually and jointly with the team to provide assessment, treatment and consultation service to children, adolescents and their families within the South Gloucestershire CAMHS team and to work with the wider care systems which impact on the welfare of the child.

To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge

To carry out specialist urgent assessments of a young person’s mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.

To work with children, young people and their families promoting opportunities for their maximum engagement and involvement in formulations or care plans and evaluation of the service they receive.

To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families

When appropriate, engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with CAMH services manager

To develop effective liaisons with referrers, and those contributing to referrals, to specialist

CAMHS and to guide referrers to appropriate resources for children and young people with mental health needs

To attend CAMHS meetings and case discussions as appropriate

To work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team.

To practice within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the Safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004) and local guidelines.

To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.

To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate.

To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their professional body.

To comply with any necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality.

To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings.

To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the child’s home.

To be computer literate.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.