Band 6 CAMHS Practitioner

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Coleshill Heath; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will provide high quality assessment for patients referred into Solar, with role in risk assessment and management, formulation of need, information gathering, and offering advice to children, young people and their support networks.

The post holder will manage a defined caseload and offer 1:1 therapeutic intervention within the service, working with partner agencies to ensure coordinated care and seamless

Qualifications

• Ability to conduct high quality assessment for children and young people and families.
• Experience with risk assessment and management.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams with partner agencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with mental health/emotional difficulties.
• Participate in development of the service and quality standards, auditing and governance.

Job description

• The post holder will provide high quality assessment for patients referred into Solar, providing a role in risk assessment and management, formulation of need, information gathering, and offering advice and guidance to children and young people directly and those who support them (parents/carers, family and professional support networks e.g school nurses, teachers, social workers). The post holder will manage a defined caseload and offer 1:1 therapeutic intervention within the service The post holder will work with partner agencies (statutory and third sector) to ensure a co-ordinated approach is had to manage the care of children and young people in Solihull. The post holder will ensure the most relevant care pathway and care plan is devised and where needed provide seamless transition into other Solar teams and practitioners The post holder will contribute to a reduction in avoidable presentations to A&E departments

• To work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with moderate to severe mental health/emotional difficulties. This will include the provision of highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion and ensuring coproduction with service users, families and carers and the education staff. Responsible for the appropriate clinical risk assessment of service users, providing an effective advice, guidance and decision making process culminating in the coordination of any reviewed plan of care in line with the Care Programmed Approach. Responsible for the admission, case conference/reviews and discharge in collaboration with members of the multi-disciplinary team.

  Responsible for participating in the development of the service, setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.

  Responsible for the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision. Responsible for establishing therapeutic relationships with service users, and the implementation of evidence based therapeutic interventions.

  Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation. Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.