CAMHS Specialist Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Castleford, Wakefield, United Kingdom South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and confident Mental Health Practitioner to join our CAMHS team. The successful candidate will have significant experience of working with young people and their families/carers/networks, particularly Children in Care, who can often present with a range of complex mental health needs.

The post-holder will provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs, working autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals. They will promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people, and provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.
  • Provide assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need.
  • Apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.
  • Be committed to a quality approach for patient care.
  • Manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need.
  • Operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework.
  • Provide training, consultation and supervision to other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families.
  • Participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision.
  • Undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
  • Commitment to multi-agency approach.
  • Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
  • Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
  • Clarity of decision making.
  • Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
  • Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
  • Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
  • To demonstrate good self care and encourage the same in team members.
  • A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

Training

Desirable

  • Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS.
  • Experience of delivering training to others.

Experience

Essential

  • Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting.
  • Multidisciplinary team working.
  • Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
  • Experience of supervising/mentoring junior staff.
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Childrens act, Education Act, Working Together, Childrens NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
  • Clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
  • Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice.
  • Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
  • Experience of safeguarding children and young people.

Desirable

  • Experience of community settings.
  • Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
  • Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.

Special Knowledge/Skills

Essential

  • Good verbal and communication skills.
  • Ability to manage own caseload.
  • Good negotiation skills, and problem solving skills.
  • Customer service orientation.
  • Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
  • IT skills.
  • Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.

Physical Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification, nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
  • Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
  • Membership of professional body.

Desirable

  • Post Registration qualification degree.
  • Post graduate qualification in mental health (CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
  • A teaching and assessing qualification.

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