Camhs Specialist Mental Health Practitioners

This is an exciting opportunity to work within an innovative, dynamic and growing multi-disciplinary Community CAMHS based in Nottingham.The children & young people who access our services present with a wide range of emotional and mental health difficulties ranging from mild to severe.

You would be joining an established, supportive and hardworking team who are passionate about improving the outcomes for the children, young people and their families/carers. As aCommunity CAMHS Specialist Mental Health Practitioner you will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team offering consultation, assessment and evidence-based interventions to children and young people we serve.

You must be a Registered Nurse, Dip SW or equivalent social work qualification (CSS, CQSW, degree in social work), Allied Health Professional registered with the HCPC and accredited by a HCPC recognised body e.g. UKCP/BACP.

Main duties of the Community CAMHS Specialist Mental Health Practitioner include:

- Providing mental health assessments and formulations
- Building therapeutic relationships with children and young people and delivering evidence based interventions (including group treatment)
- Care co-ordinating an agreed caseload
- Liaising with and offering consultation to other agencies
- Participating in the enquiries rota
- Contributing to all aspects of positive team functioning
- Contributing to ongoing service innovations and development

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

This post may also be offered as a band 5 progressing to band 6 role on successful completion of a competency framework where applicants have less than the required level of experience.

The Community CAMHS teams are welcoming, friendly and dedicated to supporting the children & young people accessing our services. The teams are busy, supportive and encouraging of new and creative ways to innovate and improve the service we deliver.
- To contribute to the CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) and CAMHS enquiries rota by receiving and reviewing new referrals where required, identifying and managing risk, liaising with other

professionals and providing timely responses
- Observe and adhere to the Community CAMHS Service

Specification, vision, aims and objectives
- Offer clinical assessment and evidence-based intervention

whilst observing current best practice, legislation and
guidance
- Working within the Choice And Partnership Approach

(CAPA) and Children and Young People’s Improved
Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT)
frameworks and principles
- Aim to be innovative and creative in the delivery of

therapeutic intervention/care bundle, and offer psycho education to children, young people and families
- Manage a caseload whilst considering and adhering to

safeguarding policy and procedure and national and local
legislation
- Offer support and supervision to junior colleagues
- Plan and successfully manage smooth transitions where

they are clinically indicated
- Seek support from the Clinical and Operational Leads

where needed, as well as accessing regular clinical and
managerial supervision as per trust policy and professional
registration requirements
- Support peers and colleagues and promote a team working environment
- Ensure suitable risk management and care plans are

formulated for all clinical cases
- Maintain contemporaneous records in alignment with Trust

policy
- Work in partnership with other teams within the

Nottinghamshire and bordering CAMHS Services
- To offer consultation through a range of initiatives to

professionals with an aim of enhancing workforce skills,
knowledge and capacity in recognising emotional/mental
health and well-being needs and undertaking interventions
with children and families to achieve positive outcomes
- To participate in the delivery of a range of training

programmes to multi agency staff in conjunction with the
CAMHS Training Lead
- Support colleagues and stakeholders in tackling stigma

relating to mental health
- Be willing to undertake training relating to the CYP IAPT

agenda and other areas of