Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS (UCAT), Weston-Super-Mare

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization is seeking a Band 6 CAMHS clinician to join their Urgent Care and Assessment Team in North Somerset. The role involves providing urgent assessments and interventions for young people experiencing mental health crises. Ideal candidates will have a child-focused approach and experience in collaborative settings. This position requires shift work covering Monday to Sunday, 8am to 10pm.

Qualifications

• Experience in assessment and management of mental health crises.
• Ability to work collaboratively with external agencies.
• Experience with therapeutic approaches like DBT and family therapy.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent assessment and brief intervention to young people in crisis.
• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and external agencies.
• Maintain positive relations to support transitions between services.

Skills

Assessment and management of complex risks

Collaborative work across health, education and social care

Child-focused approach

Education

Professional registration as a Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job overview

We are looking for a Band 6 CAMHS clinician to join our Urgent Care and Assessment Team (UCAT) in North Somerset. This post is open to Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and clinicians who hold suitable professional registration.

If you are unsure whether your registration is applicable please contact us before applying.

UCAT are a growing, specialist team who are co-located with the wider North Somerset CAMHS service and closely linked to the CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team (CIOT), our partners who cover Bristol and South Gloucestershire. UCAT provide urgent assessment and brief crisis intervention to under 18s in North Somerset through two primary pathways - Hospital assessment and Intensive Outreach.

We are looking for passionate and child-focussed clinicians with experience in assessment and management of complex risks. The ideal candidate will have experience working collaboratively across health, education and social care settings in order to promote the safety of young people on our caseload.

This role will require working shifts which cover Monday - Sunday, 8am - 10pm.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide urgent assessment and brief intervention to young people in North Somerset who present to A&E in crisis. UCAT provides hospital-based assessments within Weston General Hospital (WGH), and urgent follow-ups to NS young people presenting to hospitals out of area.

The team is co-located with the wider North Somerset CAMHS team and works closely with them to provide Intensive Outreach to young people identified of being at-risk of requiring in-patient admission.

The team utilises a number of therapeutic approaches to engage, assess, and offer brief intervention to young people experiencing mental health crisis - DBT, Systemic family therapy, NVR.

The post holder will work collaboratively with young people, families and external agencies to promote the safety of young people, including escalation of safeguarding concerns.

The post holder will offer short-term mental health assessment and intervention to young people in a setting suitable to their needs, including home visits, schools/colleges, and community and clinic room settings.

The post holder will maintain positive working relations with external agencies in order to promote the transitions of young people between services, including transition to AMHS and signposting to appropriate non-NHS services.

The post holder will be supervised by the Team Lead and/or Clinical Lead, and may be required to provide supervision to B4 equivalent colleagues.