CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner

3 months ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within our Child and Adolescent mental Health Service in Central CAMHS, Norwich.

We work with children, young people (0-14 years) and their families, with the principal objectives of providing consultation, training, mental health assessment and short-term therapeutic interventions.

It is an exciting time to join our CAMHS teams as we review our ways of working, to ensure our services our needs led, outcome informed and accessible for the young people within Norfolk and Waveney. We expect opportunities to be involved in providing specialist mental health care in a creative and innovative way, informed by overarching THRIVE principles.

Whilst experience working with children and young people would make you perfectly suited to this role, we are really open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds who have experience in other areas of mental health. We understand that you will be able to bring with you a wealth of skills and experience to the team and would welcome ways of thinking.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner who can provide assessment and goal-focussed, evidence-based interventions to young people who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health. The post holder will be required to offer mental health assessments and be part of the Duty Clinician rota for urgent response, in addition to having their own caseload.

You should have experience of risk assessment, an understanding of formulation and the ability to work collaboratively with young people and their families.

The successful candidate will work with a Multi-disciplinary team comprising of Psychology, Occupational Health, Social Work and Mental Health Nursing. We collaborate with colleagues from health, education, social care and the voluntary sector.

About us

Benefits included with this role are:

NHS pension

A comprehensive in-house and external training programme

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum (increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service, plus bank holidays)

Staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more

Job description

Job responsibilities

We want you in our team if you share our values and core beliefs. If you want to work in an environment of mutual respect, transparency, integrity, and collaborative working we are the team for you. Please see the attached job description for more detailed information regarding job role and responsibilities.

Please note we are expecting interviews to take place on 16th August 2024.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology or equivalent Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign-off Mentor

Desirable

Good to great management course, or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions

Other

Essential

Ability to travel

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