CYPMHS Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent Band 7 CAMHS Practitioner within our East CYPMHS Service. We are an enthusiastic and supportive team, motivated to work collaboratively with young people and their families experiencing moderate to severe mental health needs across East Hertfordshire.

We are particularly keen to receive applications from Occupational Therapists and Social Workers, recognising the valuable skills and perspectives these professions bring to our multidisciplinary team.

East CYPMHS is part of HPFT CYPMHS, a service at the forefront of national developments in CAMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT. We pride ourselves on delivering a high-quality, responsive service through strong multidisciplinary teamwork. The service continues to expand in line with the evolving needs of young people across Hertfordshire.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment & consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
• To work as a member of the MDT providing high quality mental health services to children and young people.
• To work sensitively and appropriately for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties.
• To undertake risk assessment and management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibility

• To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
• To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.
• To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties.
• To act as a role model in the delivery of care and uphold public confidence.
• To assess, plan and implement programmes of care for individual children and young people, carers and families with complex behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
• To be responsible for a defined caseload selecting and using appropriate interventions to meet care plan objectives and goals privileging core skills as appropriate.
• To develop, implement and manage specialised interventions within the child/young person’s context, employing evidence based practice.
• To evaluate and adjust practices based on feedback.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/ professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To carry out assessments and interventions.
• To work jointly with co-workers from the multi-disciplinary teams as appropriate.
• To contribute and develop skills in Clinical Governance.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health
• To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration Educational Practice (PREP)

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

Key Relationships

• To  have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• To maintain close working relationships with colleagues from the same professional group across the county.
• To promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in all areas of the service and develop and maintain effective working relationships with other agencies and service areas
• To promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families and carers.
• To enhance public relations, taking active steps to project a positive image of service users, the service and the Trust.

This job description is an outline, which reflects the present requirements of the post and is not intended to be an inflexible or finite list of duties and responsibilities.  As these duties and responsibilities change and develop the job description will be amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder.