CAMHS Practitioner

Job overview

North Tyneside Specialist CAMHS seeking a compassionate, skilled, and motivated Complex Care Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with children, young people, and their families who present with highly complex mental health needs requiring coordinated, intensive, and person-centred care.

The postholder will act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, ensuring effective coordination of services and multidisciplinary input. The post holder will also act as the lead practitioner for a defined caseload, undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments, developing collaborative care plans, coordinating interventions across agencies, and ensuring continuity of care for young people with significant emotional, behavioural, and psychological difficulties.

Working closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, nurses, social care, education, and voluntary sector partners, you will play a key role in reducing risk, improving outcomes, preventing unnecessary admissions, and supporting recovery through evidence-based and trauma-informed practice.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• Hold and manage a caseload of children and young people with complex and enduring mental health presentations.
• Undertake comprehensive biopsychosocial and risk assessments.
• Develop, implement, and regularly review personalised care plans in partnership with young people and their families.
• Act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, ensuring effective coordination of services and multidisciplinary input.
• Provide therapeutic interventions within the scope of professional competence.
• Coordinate multi-agency meetings and contribute to safeguarding, Child Protection, and Child in Need processes.
• Monitor and manage clinical risk, responding appropriately to crises and escalating concerns when necessary.
• Liaise effectively with education, social care, paediatric services, community organisations, and inpatient services to ensure seamless care.
• Support transitions between services, including transfer to Adult Mental Health Services where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to service evaluation, quality improvement, and clinical governance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsible for the assessment and interpretation mental health needs of children, adolescents and their families in conjunction with other multi disciplinary team members.

To participate in the assessment of children and young people involved in deliberate self harm.

Responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic interventions in consultation with other multi disciplinary team members.

To carry and maintain personal key worker and joint caseworker responsibilities for children and young people Working within multidisciplinary and departmental supervision systems.

To participate in supervision systems, which currently operate within CAMHS, keeping your line manager informed of all matters directly related to the post holders area of responsibility and accountability.

To provide specialist advice to children, young people their families and staff external to the department on the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness.

To participate in the establishment, organisation, delivery and evaluation of clinics within the department alongside members of the Multi Disciplinary Team.

To record and interpret clients physical observations when indicated in conjunction with members of the multidisciplinary team.

Ensure all children and families receive a high quality, effective service, offering a broad range of interventions.

Risk Management - to deliver the quality standards and targets outlined in the Trust’s Risk Management Strategy and local operational policies.

Undertake liaison with other agencies to ensure that child/young persons needs are managed at right level of service provision based on clinical need.

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.