CAMHS Registered Practitioner

Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are full time 37.5 per week.

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 to join our Core Child and Adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) teams.

Within Core CAMHS we offer assessments and interventions for the children and young people who are accepted into our service.

We pride ourselves on working within a strong multi-disciplinary team (MDT) including;

• Nurses
• Occupational Therapists
• Social workers
• Creative therapists
• Psychologists
• psychotherapists

Currently we are looking for a registered practitioner (mental health or LD nurse, OT, or social worker) to ensure we have a robust MDT.

We are looking for someone who has clinical experience of working within a MDT and also supporting the wider network for the child and their family.

CAMHS continue to deliver high quality specialist mental health services to children and young people up to their 18th birthday.

We are a supportive, experienced and progressive multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

You will have the opportunity to;

• Offer assessments for children, young people and families
• create formulations to aid an understanding of the child’s needs
• utilise evidence based, goal focused and effective interventions which lead to a positive discharge from our service.

We offer individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need.

The successful candidates will have the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to complete clinical assessments including sound clinical formulations and clinical risk assessments. You will be expected to demonstrate experience in providing evidence based mental health treatment interventions.

Key elements of the job:

• Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people as well as their families/ career’s who present with emotional and mental health difficulties
• Providing Care Coordinator responsibilities for a caseload of children and young people presenting with complex and high-risk mental health issues. There will be a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment, including Self Harm assessments where the Voice of the Child is embedded within personalised care planning

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What we can offer you:

• Opportunities to develop your clinical skills through training, profession specific support and development supervision and personal coaching initiatives
• The opportunity to develop specialist knowledge, experience and skills with a leading CAMHS provider
• The challenge of complex and varied work through a manageable caseload
• A variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts

The successful applicant must have the necessary professional qualification, including current registration with NMC

All CAMHS Registered Practitioners hold a generic job description, however specialist skills and responsibilities related to this role will be reflected within a personalised job plan.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We aim to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services.  It is the Trust’s view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas