Mh Practitioner

Are you an occupational therapist, social worker or mental health nurse who has experience of working with children and adolescents in a community mental health setting? Are you passionate about children, young persons and families receiving help and support when they need it most? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an able and dynamic CAMHS Specialist Community Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Nurse Specialist, to join our expanding and developing CAMHS Alliance Crisis Service.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team holding a clinical caseload and undertaking appropriate mental health assessments of children and adolescents presenting to local Hospitals, and CAMHS in crisis. The post holder will provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical and crisis interventions, informed by assessed individual need. The post holder will be working with adolescents with behavioural, emotional and mental health needs often in complex family situations displaying a range of risk type behaviours.

In addition to providing direct work to families and young people, the post holders will also assist the CAMHS and/or paediatrics team with treatment planning and provide consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the young person.

The post holders will have experience of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and adolescents with mental health problems and their families, and be comfortable supporting young people at risk of self-harm in the community.

Supervision and support will be provided and the Trust has an excellent learning and development department, to support your career development pathway.

The post holders will need to be flexible and creative and work with a diverse population across the boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow and Ealing.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

The CAMHS Alliance Crisis Service multi-disciplinary team is strongly aligned with the core values of the Trust; togetherness, responsibility, excellence, and caring. The team is committed to providing services that are accessible to everyone, and it prides itself on its creative and innovative ways of delivering high quality evidence based care for children, young people and families referred to the service.

WLT CAMHS is committed to supporting the development and progression of its staff. In addition to receiving regular supervision, all staff have access to training and development opportunities in line with their agreed development needs. Staff are also encouraged to be involved in quality improvement projects, audit and research. Our staff provide a combination of face-to-face clinical contact, and clinical contact via virtual platforms, resulting in a combination of onsite and remote working. All staff are provided with a laptop and mobile phone to support agile working.