CAMHS Practitioner

Nottingham City Council; Nottingham; Presencial; GBP 38 000 - 48 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Nottingham City Council is seeking a compassionate CAMHS Practitioner to join the Citywide Targeted CAMHS Team. You will conduct comprehensive mental health assessments, develop formulations and deliver short-term, evidence-based interventions for children, young people and families.

You will work within multi-disciplinary teams, manage safeguarding risk, contribute to single point of access, and collaborate with education, health and social care partners to ensure timely, person-centred support.

Qualificações

• Degree-level qualification in Social Work, Nursing or Teaching with relevant post-qualification experience.
• Specialist training in evidence-based therapies for children and young people.
• Extensive experience delivering interventions and formulating care for diverse mental health presentations.
• Strong ability to assess and manage safeguarding risks in complex, multi-agency settings.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments and develop collaborative formulations.
• Deliver short-term, evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families.
• Assess, manage and communicate risk effectively with a child-centred approach.
• Provide multi-disciplinary support and contribute to the CAMHS Single Point of Access.
• Collaborate with education, health, social care and voluntary sector partners for timely support.

Formação académica

Degree-level qualification in Social Work, Nursing or Teaching

Specialist training in evidence-based therapeutic intervention

Experience delivering interventions for children and families

Extensive risk assessment and safeguarding experience

Advanced knowledge of child and adolescent mental health

Expert safeguarding and multi-agency risk management

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We are looking for a compassionate, skilled and resilient CAMHS Practitioner to join our Citywide Targeted CAMHS Team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children, young people and families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. Working within a trauma-informed and relationship-based framework, you will support children and young people to understand their experiences, build resilience and achieve positive outcomes.

As part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, you will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, develop collaborative formulations and deliver short term, evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families. While many referrals present with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, practitioners must also be confident in working with complexity, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, emotional dysregulation, safeguarding concerns and contextual risks. The successful candidate will be able to assess, manage and communicate risk effectively whilst maintaining a child-centred, compassionate and strengths-based approach.

The role involves providing individual, family and group interventions, contributing to the CAMHS Single Point of Access, and working closely with partners across education, health, social care and the voluntary sector to ensure children receive the right support at the right time. You will play an important role in safeguarding children and promoting their emotional wellbeing through effective multi-agency collaboration and care planning.

Joining our team means becoming part of a service committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based and trauma-informed mental health care and Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation principles. We offer a supportive working environment, regular clinical and management supervision, opportunities for professional development and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

Qualifications

• A relevant professional qualification in Social Work, Nursing, Teaching or a related discipline at Degree level or above, supported by substantial post-qualification experience in the assessment and treatment of children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties.
• Specialist training, accreditation or qualification in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention, with the ability to integrate therapeutic knowledge into assessment, formulation and intervention planning for children, young people and families presenting with a range of mental health needs and complexities
• Demonstrable experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families across a diverse range of mental health presentations and levels of complexity, utilising assessment and formulation to inform intervention planning and outcomes.
• Extensive experience of assessing and managing significant clinical and safeguarding risk, including self-harm, suicidality, child protection concerns and environmental adversity, whilst working effectively within complex multi-agency systems and contributing to shared decision-making regarding care and risk management.
• Advanced knowledge of child and adolescent mental health presentations, including complexity arising from trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodiversity, self-harm, suicidality and emotional dysregulation, with the ability to apply evidence-based therapeutic models to assessment, formulation and intervention.
• Expert knowledge of safeguarding, risk assessment and risk management within children's services, including the application of professional curiosity, contextual safeguarding and effective multi-agency decision-making to manage complex and high-risk situations.

Essential Skills and Competencies

• Highly developed assessment and formulation skills, with the ability to integrate information from multiple sources, analyse complexity and deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties, trauma histories and contextual challenges.
• Ability to exercise professional judgement and autonomous decision-making when managing significant clinical and safeguarding risk, including self-harm and suicidal presentations, whilst influencing and contributing effectively to multi-agency planning and risk management processes.