Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - North Somerset CAMHS

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in the UK seeks a clinician for their child and adolescent mental health team in Weston-super-Mare. The role involves providing assessments and treatments for young people with complex mental health needs. Ideal candidates will be skilled in risk assessment and evidence-based interventions, and have opportunities for professional development and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Comprehensive in-house training programme

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing self-injurious behaviour.
• Ability to develop and implement risk management plans collaboratively.
• Ability to tailor therapeutic interventions to service users' needs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and treatment for young people with mental health difficulties.
• Manage caseloads and provide interventions based on NICE guidance.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care.

Skills

Clinical risk assessment

Evidence-based interventions

Autonomous practitioner

Education

Accredited CBT/EMDR/Family Therapist

Job description

Job overview

WSM & Clevedon are thriving seaside towns within commuting distance to Bristol and Taunton. The M5 motorway within easy access.

WSM is a growing multi-cultural area with numerous amenities and has access to the beautiful coastline & also the Mendip Hills.

The area is ideal for those who like an active lifestyle but also who want to be within reach of Bristol and Taunton.

North Somerset child and adolescent mental health team is a well-established multi-disciplinary team, which is, continuing to grow due to new investment. (CAMHS). The team currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme.

We offer flexible working patterns and have the benefit of working across 2 sites in Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon.

The team also provides Eating Disorder & Learning Disability Services and so have the potential to offer development opportunities.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary, working as part of the leadership team to provide assessment, treatments for children, adolescents & their families with complex mental health needs.

We particularly welcome applications from accredited CBT/EMDR/Family Therapist or those who are coming up to accreditation.

We welcome calls/visits from prospective candidate to discuss in more detail, this opportunity, & what the team can offer.

Main duties of the job

• To carry out assessments and provide treatment for young people presenting with significant mental health difficulties in the community.
• To be highly skilled in clinical risk assessment and management in relation to children and young people including experience of managing self-injurious behaviour. To be able to develop and to implement and review risk management and safety plans collaboratively.
• To be able to offer evidence based interventions to children, young people and families according to NICE guidance and local pathways of care.
• To hold and to manage a case load and using resources creatively to provide excellent intervention for children, young people and families; uniquely tailoring therapeutic interventions to meet the needs of service users.
• To be able to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as with the wider team and partner agencies within the North Somerset Team and the wider systems within a collaborative care model approach.
• To work and provide leadership in the assessment and treatment 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.
• To work with the team and the wider care system to deliver care which can positively impact on the welfare of the child.