Mental Health Practitioner (12 month fixed term)

NHS Jobs; Castleford; In loco; GBP 30.000 - 42.000; Tempo pieno

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NHS Jobs is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner for a 12-month fixed-term post in CAMHS. The role involves assessing and treating children and young people with emotional and psychological needs, working autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team, and providing consultation to other services.

A strong focus on safeguarding and high-quality patient care is essential. The post supports a comprehensive CAMHS system and may require extended hours alongside fellow specialists, with supervision

Competenze

• Provides assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs.
• Works autonomously and with the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies.
• Applies safeguarding and welfare principles for children and young people.
• Committed to high quality patient care and continual professional development.

Mansioni

• Assess and treat children and young people with mental health needs across CAMHS.
• Work within MDT and provide consultation to partner agencies.
• Apply safeguarding guidelines in clinical work and promote welfare of young people.
• Provide training, supervision, and support within the CAMHS extension as required.
• Participate in ongoing service development, audits, and extended hours as needed.

Conoscenze

Autonomous practice

Team collaboration

Assessment & treatment

safeguarding knowledge

Strumenti

CAPA model

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Mental Health Practitioner (12 month fixed term)

JOB SUMMARY The post-holder will: Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs; Work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals; Promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people. To provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. KEY RESULT AREAS: 1 To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system. 2 To provide assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the CAPA model. 3 To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work. 4 To be committed to a quality approach for patient care. 5 The post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues. 6 To manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need. 7 To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework. 8 To provide training, consultation and supervision to other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families. 9 To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision. 10 To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners. For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.