Camhs Practitioner

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 CAMHS Practitioner to join our Core CAMHS Team.

We work with and support young people with or without a mental health diagnosis.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with with mental health issues then we want to hear from you.

In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.

To provide an evidence-based therapy service to children and adolescents anywhere in the Children’s Division Primary Care CAMHS. Patients will be managed on an outpatient basis; providing a CAMHS assessment and evidence based therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patient’s mental health care to colleagues and partner agencies and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Community Team
- Provide comprehensive mental health assessments demonstrating the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care., a range of direct work and evidence-based therapeutic intervention.
- To have the ability to utilize specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young person’s mental health needs.