CAMH Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Psychologist with experience of working with young people and their families to work in Tri-borough CAMHS. This is a full-time Band 7 permanent post in the CAMHS Alliance service.

The Alliance Crisis Care Team is an evolving service which aims to provide brief interventions and outreach work to children and young people presenting with acute psychological and mental health problems where intensive support is required to prevent admission to general and psychiatric hospitals. The role offers the opportunity to complete front line crisis assessments and interventions, in addition to working on their soft clinical skills by working on a CAMHS Helpline.

We acknowledge that all staff have their own skills set, therefore will consider how staff can be supported and nurtured to achieve their full potential. Ideally you are someone who has the ability to be creative, flexible, dynamic and have confidence in your ability to problem-solve, make decisions and can grow from this opportunity!

We would be delighted to hear from Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who have some experience working in CAMHS and are interested in this role.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work alongside other psychologists in the team in addition to holding an individual caseload. You will receive regular clinical, professional, and management supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist in the team.

Main duties of the job

The Alliance Crisis Team serves 3 key pathways:

• Acute Trust and out of hours’ service •    Intensive community support/ Home Treatment service & Post A&E Review •    Intensive community support/Home Treatment + service with Tier 3 CAMHs interface and Tier 4 diversion/Tier 4 step down

The post holders will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, holding a clinical caseload and undertaking the comprehensive assessment of children and young people with mental health needs (including risk assessment and the development of risk management plans) who present in crisis to CAMH Services, hospitals and sites covered by the Alliance Crisis Care.

In addition to providing direct work to families and young people, the post holders will also assist the CAMHS and/or paediatrics team with treatment planning and provide consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the young person.

The post holder will participate in delivering the provision of specialist mental health services to children and young people and their families and carers across the West London NHS Trust 3 Boroughs CAMH Service and crisis pathway.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.