Senior Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Skills

  Skills in the use of complex methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

• Skills

  Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

• Skills

  Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

• Knowledge

  Some knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

• Knowledge

  Must demonstrate knowledge of the evidence base in their practice.

• Knowledge

  Must demonstrate understanding of child development and psychosocial influences

• Knowledge

  Must demonstrate a working understanding of systemic, psychodynamic and cognitive theories along with recognition of when each approach is appropriate.

• Knowledge

  Must demonstrate knowledge of audit and evaluation methodology.

• Knowledge

  Must demonstrate knowledge of research methodology.

• Knowledge

  Must demonstrate an understanding of current government initiatives underpinning service developments. Must demonstrate strong organisational skills.

• Knowledge

  Must be able to demonstrate the ability to manage aspects of service development in line with government initiatives

• Experience

  Experience of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.

• Experience

  Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team

• Experience

  Working collaboratively with other agencies in a variety of venues.

• Experience

  Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.

• Experience

  Must be experienced in providing risk assessment of self harming behaviour

• Experience

  Must be experienced in analysing presenting problems and able to demonstrate ability to work autonomously utilising a range of therapeutic perspectives and modalities, depending on the needs of the client.

• Experience

  Must be experienced in and able to demonstrate ability to provide case management supervision for lower banded CAMHS Workers, students and other service group/team professionals as required.

• Experience

  Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately. Must be able to demonstrate ability to develop and evaluate consultation and training to other professionals and to staff groups.

• Qualifications & Training

  Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy or Recognised degree level broad based health & social care qualification which will require completion of The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Knowledge Skills and Attributes

• Qualifications & Training

  Accredited therapeutic training