Band 6 CAMHS Intensive Outreach MH Practitioner - Bristo

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bristol is looking for a Band 6 CAMHS clinician dedicated to supporting young people facing mental health crises. The role involves delivering high-quality, evidence-based care within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team. Candidates should have experience working with young people and be able to conduct comprehensive mental health assessments. This is an intensive outreach position offering a chance to make a positive difference in mental health care. Flexible shift patterns will be required.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people facing mental health crises.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive mental health needs assessments.
• Skilled in providing evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality care in an intensive outreach team.
• Assess young people at an acute hospital experiencing crises.
• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Mental health intervention

Assessing young people's needs

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Evidence-based practice

Education

Relevant mental health qualification

Job description

Job overview

Are you an experienced CAMHS clinician looking for a new opportunity and are passionate about working with young people and their carers. To make a positive difference with supporting our families through a mental health crisis and ensuring they have the best possible patient experience and care

Can you work with children, young people, their families and carers, providing evidence-based intervention in an intensive outreach team?

We are looking for a Band 6 CAMHS clinician to work in the Intensive Outreach team. We are looking for a suitable candidate who can bring skills, experience and enthusiasm to meet the needs of children/young people with complex social, emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental and mental health needs.

In this important role, you will use your extensive skills and experience as a mental health practitioner to deliver high quality care, developing and sustaining relationships across agencies and working as a core member of a multi-disciplinary team. Using both evidence based practice and routine outcome measures, you will use a strength-based approach to work collaboratively with service users, in line with CYP-IAPT key principles.

We are a progressive and dynamic service that work using evidence-based therapeutic treatments and approaches but also foreground anti-oppressive practice and diversity and equality as part of our daily working.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be involved in working within the CAMHS hospital team care pathway, assessing young people that present to an acute hospital and are experiencing a mental health crisis. Clinicians will be expected to undertake a comprehensive mental health needs assessment and be able to identify the forward care pathways for the young person and their carer(s).

We work across all localities including North Bristol, East & Central Bristol, South Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, and aim to build strong working relationships with all of these services. We cover a 7 day period working a number of shifts. These are 8-4pm, 12-8pm and 4pm until midnight and weekend working.

A proportion of the role will involve working in conjunction with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team to identify care and treatment options which enable service users to remain within their existing support/care pathways and maintain their community tenure, signposting to other services to meet their needs.

The post holder will maintain close working relationships with Community and specialist CAMHS services, Adult Community Mental Health Teams as well as the Acute Hospital Services. Day to day leadership on service delivery and development will be provided by the Team Manager, along with senior clinicians as will caseload and management supervision.