Band 7 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos

NHS; Bristol; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a motivated Band 7 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the South Gloucestershire team. This role involves providing expert assessment and treatment for children and young people facing complex mental health challenges. As a key member of a multi-disciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive environment, with flexible working hours to accommodate diverse needs.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in clinical psychology, mental health nursing, or equivalent.
• Maintenance of professional registration required.
• Experience with Eating Disorders is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, treatment, and consultation services for children and families.
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to address serious mental health difficulties.
• Maintain own case management from referral to discharge.

Skills

Ability to work autonomously

Clinical supervision/consultation

Ability to engage with diverse communities

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Job description

Band 7 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos

We are looking for a motivated clinician to join our South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team based at Kingswood Hub and Patchway Hubs. You will have relevant qualification, core profession registration and experience of working with children and young people, preferably within a community CAMHS service.

We are a supportive, experienced and creative multi-disciplinary team. We offer individual, family, specialist and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need. You will have the opportunity to utilise your existing skills within core work and/or specialist clinics ideally within our Eating Disorder clinic. Also to further develop your skills and experience with support from our experienced team and our training opportunities.

22.5 hours per week, flexible working pattern considered for suitable candidate, must be available on Tuesdays.

South Gloucestershire CAMHS is a supportive, experienced and progressive multi-disciplinary team. We offer individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need. We have radically transformed in recent years including improved staff retention, fantastic team skill mix and opportunities for innovative practice.

Main duties of the job

To work individually and jointly with the team to provide assessment, treatment and consultation service to children, adolescents and their families within the South Gloucestershire CAMHS team and to work with the wider care systems which impact on the welfare of the child.

To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge
• To carry out specialist urgent assessments of a young persons mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.
• To work with children, young people and their families promoting opportunities for their maximum engagement and involvement in formulations or care plans and evaluation of the service they receive.
• To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families
• When appropriate, engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with CAMH services manager
• To develop effective liaisons with referrers, and those contributing to referrals, to specialist
• CAMHS and to guide referrers to appropriate resources for children and young people with mental health needs
• To attend CAMHS meetings and case discussions as appropriate
• To work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team.
• To practice within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the Safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004) and local guidelines.
• To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
• To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate.
• To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their professional body.
• To comply with any necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality.
• To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings.
• To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the childs home.
• To be computer literate.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Relevant completed professional qualification (e.g. clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy, occupational therapy, accredited CBT, psychotherapy)
• Maintenance of appropriate professional registration

Experience

• Post qualification of delivering evidence based therapies to young people and families in CAMHS
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and ability to contribute to team meetings and processes.
• Experience in a community CAMHS service
• Interest and experience in working with Eating Disorders

Skills

• Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds.
• Ability to work autonomously, and organise and prioritise workload.
• Experience of Clinical supervision/consultation - junior colleagues or other staff.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearpro rata (pay award pending)