Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

The CAMHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Crisis Home Treatment are looking to recruit four Band 7 Specialist Mental Health Practitioners on 6-month fixed term contracts

In the role you will deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children and young people with serious and enduring mental health difficulties. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on working with children and young people and their families who experience a complex range of needs and difficulties.

You will be acting as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, and will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence-based interventions using a collaborative approach and will be skilled at risk assessment and management. They will complement the multi-disciplinary working of the team, providing supervision for other team members, as agreed with the Team lead.

You will participate in team and service development and evaluation. Liaison, advice and consultation with a wide range of agencies are central to the role.

Main duties of the job

The Specialist Mental Health Practitioner will have responsibility for providing clinical leadership to colleagues in the assessment, treatment and management of children and young people with acute mental health difficulties. Providing specialist assessment and clinically proven, research-based interventions to children and young people presenting with high risk or high impact mental health difficulties. You will offer advice and consultation regarding the management of the client group to colleagues within the CYP service and in other agencies where appropriate and when required

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, outcome measures, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• Take a lead role in the development of clinical services for young people accessing CAMHS, both referred to the team and those identified as requiring additional consultation.
• Provide expert assessment, formulation and intervention and support to all children, young people and families referred to the service providing evidence based specialist interventions.
• Formulate plans of care and negotiate the implementation of such plans and the sharing of complex, sensitive, confidential and at times contentious information e.g. child protection issues.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of clinical interventions for children and young people, their carers, and families, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
• To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan

Please see job description and person specification attached for the role for Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.