Senior Mental Health Practitioner

2 weeks ago


AshtonUnderLyne, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We currently very excited to be recruiting to the position of Senior Mental Health Practitioner (wte).

FITS is a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team embedded within Children's Social Care with an emphasis currently on training and consultation to promote trauma informed practice across the workforce. We are looking for a senior mental health practitioner with experience of working in a CAMHS setting to join our team. The role will include direct clinical work with children, young people and families, consultation, training, supervision of other staff. There will be an opportunity to develop your own therapeutic skills with access to quality training and clinical supervision as part of the role.

Tameside and Glossop Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children's Social Care (CSC) and the Third Sector and as a locality is striving to fully align to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services.

Tameside and Glossop Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children's Social Care (CSC) and the Third Sector and is well on the way to being fully aligned to the Thrive approach. We are fully committed to supporting our staff with great access to CPD opportunities, robust clinical and management supervision, and access to an induction training program covering key areas of clinical practice.

T&G CAMHS is extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. Recent investment has supported the establishment of a highly innovative relationship-focussed and trauma-informed therapeutic service co-located within Children's Social Care working at all levels of the Child Protection Framework.

This is a really exciting time to become part of our service, as we seek to substantially expand and develop our team. As such we are delighted to be actively seeking to recruit a range of new staff who will be joining our already well established, highly skilled and supportive staff team here in Tameside and Glossop.

If you think you might be interested in this post, we would love to hear from you

**Key Responsibilities of the Post**:
Key responsibilities will include raising awareness of ACES and the impact of developmental trauma within the Childrens Service workforce through training and consultation to embed the consideration of developmental trauma and attachment theory in approaches to working with families. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality therapeutic support input to FITS. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families and to supervise that provided by other staff within the multi-disciplinary team. To contribute to the provision of risk assessment and management as part of the core CAMHS duty offer. To offer training and consultation both internally and externally to our partner agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.

**Key Requirements of the Person Specification**:



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