Senior Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Sefton CAMHS and the Sefton Enhanced Support Team are looking for an experienced Senior Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist to join our service.

The Enhanced Support Team works with children and young people with complex needs who present with high risk, high harm behaviours and high vulnerability. They are likely to have difficulties in multiple domains which are persistent, severe and are framed by family and social contexts. This may include children and young people who are involved in youth justice services, not in education employment or training, who engage in substance misuse, have multiple adverse childhood experiences, who are neurodiverse or have speech language and communication difficulties etc.  These children and young people are likely to have been referred to multiple services, but there are significant barriers to engagement

This will be a split post with Sefton CAMHS and is integrated with Children's Services including Social Care and Youth Justice.

The successful applicant will contribute to the clinical work of both teams and hold 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.