Camhs Specialist Practitioner, Band 7

1 month ago


Taunton, United Kingdom Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, experienced specialist practitioner, to deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for Deaf children, young people and their families experiencing mental health difficulties. We are particularly keen to hear from people with a creative therapies background, play therapy, art therapy and those qualified practitioners with psychological therapies skills. This is a fixed term, 30 hours a week post until February 2024.

The Regional Deaf CAMHS team provides a service for young people with comorbidities and complex needs including a combination of mental health neurodevelopmental and Deaf needs. The team has links with the National Deaf Teams to support supervision and ensure alignment with national thinking, best practice and training to drive ongoing development.

This is a great time to join our team as we are participating in national service development projects to develop trauma-informed service strategies, a nationwide autism pathway and pathways for young people affected by language deprivation. Training is available and encouraged both within Somerset FT and national team.

Our highly specialised service provides comprehensive evidence-based advice, consultation, assessment, treatment and training. The post holder will be responsible for highly specialised assessment and intervention and will deliver the service with the dedicated Regional Deaf CAMHS team across the South West. For some young people, this work may involve supporting young people and their families/ carers. For others, this may be providing specialist advice and consultation to those that support the young person, including education and social care teams.

The team is psychology led and operates from a Bi-lingual (Spoken English and British Sign Language) and Bi-Cultural multi-disciplinary approach with, specialist mental health practitioners, psychology, psychiatry and family support workers from both the hearing and Deaf communities. You will work collaboratively with colleagues in the team, to ensure effective implementation of best practice that places the young persons at the centre of all we do. No experience of British Sign Language is required, but a strong commitment to learning is encouraged. Training is paid for and provided in work time.

The team is based in Foundation House in Taunton and cover the whole of the South West region. Many of our team are working from home for the majority of the time, however travel to schools, colleges, and other bases across the South West is needed on a regular basis.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone

The post holder will have the responsibility to work as part of a team undertaking the following tasks:

- To provide a specialist practitioner service to the National Mental Health Service for Deaf children and young people, across the South West.
- To develop and undertake assessments, formulations and interventions with this client group.
- To care coordinate packages of care.
- To provide advice to other professionals working with Deaf children in mainstream settings.
- To liaise closely with other professionals working in specialist services for Deaf children.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines.
- To participate in service development projects as identified by the team.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
- Providing clinical supervision for staff, trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the service.
- The post holder with receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by their core profession



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