Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

To provide care-coordination within Core CAMHS, including assessment, care planning and case management of children/young people with moderate to severe mental health concerns.

To contribute and participate in consultation, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team who provide care and treatment.

Our current MDT includes SALT, social work, CBT trained therapists, EMDR trained therapist as well as psychologist, medics NMP’s, providing a wide range of knowledge, experience and support to ensure that the service users receive outstanding quality of treatment.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological intervention within the specialism.

To work within the designated Team, according to the Team practices, ethos and responsibilities.

To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a child/young person’s mental health problems, based upon the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.

To provide specialist mental health assessment of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and interrogation of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interview with clients, family members and others involved in the child/young person’s care

To implement appropriate psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining formulations drawing up on different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions regarding treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical developmental processes, for example Trauma that have shaped the individual.

To utilise analytical skills for assessing and interpreting complex facts. ie. suicide risk/child protection, and to take appropriate action, following the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.



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