Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner
1 month ago
Key Result Areas
Clinical Responsibilities
To carry out assessments of a child or young person's mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.
To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.
To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
When appropriate within the role to engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with line manager.
As required, contribute to the triage of CAMHS referrals.
To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their professional body.
To comply with any necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality.
To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend CAMHS case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate.
To work to a job plan agreed with your manager.
Professional Responsibilities
To participate in suitable personal clinical and management supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively.
To keep records and to provide clinical reports on interventions and outcomes.
To develop and sustain links and working relationships with the different community based CAMH teams.
To practice within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the Safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004) and local guidelines.
To work within relevant Professional Body guidelines.
To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing NHS Trust policies.
To ensure that, as far as possible, practice is evidence based, keeping informed of current practice by undertaking training as appropriate and as required by professional guidelines (e.g. NMC training requirements).
To explore, research and develop further innovative ways to promote positive mental health Research and Development
To inform and influence child mental health strategy including the development of joint agency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships.
To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young people's mental health.
To participate in obtaining service users' views and to involve service users in the design and delivery of accessible CAMH provision in the community.
Management
To contribute to placements for students/trainees, as appropriate in discussion with Line Manager.
Other
To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the child's home To be computer literate.
Person specificationQualifications/ registration
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
- To maintain professional registration
Desirable criteria
- Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents
- Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people. Including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
- Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their relatives.
- Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds
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