Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner - BANES CAMHS

Job overview

Are you a qualified Social Worker looking to develop your leadership skills and offer an excellent service to children and young people?

We're looking for an experienced Social Worker to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team on a full-time basis. With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health, there has never been a better time to join and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.

As the Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner, you will act in a lead role for the liaison service, jointly with a Liaison Lead Practitioner colleague,  at the district general hospital in RUH Bath. Alongside Liaison Lead colleagues, you'll participate in the delivery and on-going development of the service. As joint lead, you'll provide daily leadership & clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service and ensure a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.

You'll be able to make a meaningful contribution to our service modernisation, ensuring children & young people get the right support from individuals with the right skills.

We offer a full induction, shadowing opportunities, ongoing in-house training, access to external courses, and regular managerial, professional, peer, clinical and safeguarding supervision to support your confidence, competence and development.

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Main duties of the job

In this role, you will undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Bath and supervise and support colleagues in Band 6 roles and support work to assess and plan for care following admission to hospital .

You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, provide supervision for other team members and develop an area of clinical leadership within BANES Community CAMHS

• Assessment of deliberate self-harm
• Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
• Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
• Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified
• Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues)

Within the team, we work on a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays.  The flexible working patterns allows team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week.  You will participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis. There is a robust system of support available from on call colleagues  including the manager, consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact us.