Senior Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

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Sefton CAMHS are looking for an experienced Senior Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist to join our service.

Sefton CAMHS is seeking to appoint an experienced specialist mental health practitioner or clinical psychologist to join this dynamic team.  At Sefton CAMHS we work with children and young people with a range of mental health support needs.  This role will be integral to ensuring that children and young people can access the right support for them to help them build the skills they need to manage their own mental health needs in the future.

The successful applicant will contribute to clinical work and  case management responsibility for their workload. Provision of supervision to lower banded team members, trainees and other internal professionals as required.

We are particularly seeking candidates who have substantial experience of working within complex systems, providing case consultation, multi-agency formulations and working with families indirectly via wider professional involvement

Main duties of the job

The post holder will undertake appropriate mental health assessment of children and young people referred to CAMHS  and provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need.

The post holder will provide support, advice and consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details about duties and responsibilities.