Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Outreach & DBT Service CAMHS

Job overview

Are you looking to make a real difference in the lives of children, young people, and vulnerable adults? Are you a trained DBT practitioner?

Buckinghamshire Children and Young Person's Mental Health team are looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent) team to work across the Outreach and DBT caseload.

The OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent) is a specialised element within the Buckinghamshire CAMHS service. The Buckinghamshire CAMHS service is based on the iThrive model, and includes a number of pathways delivering the full range of assessments and interventions to young people with mental health needs.

Our service has 3 main elements (DBT, Crisis & Intensive Home Treatment (IHTT) and Outreach) the post holder will be expected to work across DBT & Outreach elements.

If you are looking for a role where you can provide expert clinical care, leadership, and support across multiple teams, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Join us and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to making a positive impact on the community!

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within CAMHS
• The post holder will have Keyworker responsibility for an agreed case load of young people
• To undertake relevant training and to support in the delivery of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy within the OSCA Team as per service need and alongside the DBT Lead.
• Develop risk management plans, regularly review risk plans, identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the client, community team and client’s carers/ relatives/ significant others
• Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation.
• Exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy
• Make critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job
• Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply
• Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision and practice
• Make and receive referrals
• Complete advanced history taking, and physical examinations as required with patient group
• Regularly undertake clinical supervision

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

We spoke with the team and here's what they said about working in CAMHS:

"I am incredibly proud to work for our Trust and to work with so many people who are so committed to helping to support young people and their families. CAMHS feels like one big family, and it is a great place to be where everyone works collaboratively and helps support each other in the quest to trying to provide the best care to our patients."

Job description subject to evaluation. Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.