Mental Health Practitioner - Tameside CAMHS

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 6 CAMHS practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team across CAMHS services in the region. The post involves triage of referrals, assessment of children and young people aged 5–18, and developing initial care plans within a structured service transformation.

The role offers regular supervision, opportunities for professional development, and flexible working arrangements to support staff wellbeing and service improvement within the CAMHS

Qualifications

• Senior CAMHS practitioner role within multidisciplinary teams.
• Triage of new referrals and assessment for children and young people aged 5-18.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality mental health assessments for children and young people and families.
• Triaging new referrals into CAMHS, urgent and routine psychosocial assessments and initial care planning.
• Offer consultation and training to a range of agencies.

Job description

Open to B4 staff due to qualify as B5

Open to B4 staff due to qualify as B5

ARE YOU READY for your next NEW CHALLENGE? We are seeking to employ a number of highly motivated and skilled senior practitioners to join and expand our dynamic, friendly and diverse multi-disciplinary teams. This is a real chance be a part of the CAMHS transformation long term plan which will improve the mental health outcome for children and young people.

We have opportunities for new fulltime Band 6 CAMHS practitioner posts in Tameside and Glossop CAMHS, Open to B4 staff due to qualify as B5. This post are based within Single point of entry and assessment team CAMHS, This role will include triage of new referrals and assessment for children and young people referred for community CAMHS aged 5-18 .

CAMHS offers a wide range of mental health assessments and evidence-based interventions including family therapy, CBT, DBT interpersonal therapy, EMDR, and psychotherapy for children and young people aged 5 to 18 years. CAMHS also has close links with community services which work with children and young people to offer an early help and bespoke packages of care. There are plenty of opportunities to work in a true multi agency way to help deliver a whole system offer that communicates that all children and young people matter and that their emotional wellbeing and mental health needs are understood and supported with kindness, compassion and high quality and safe care.

These posts will be responsible for providing high quality mental health assessments for children and young people and families using evidence-based assessments.

To be responsible for triaging new referrals into CAMHS, Urgent and routine Psychosocial assessment and safety assessments and formulation of initial care plans .

Providing consultation, advice, and training to a wide range of agencies.

As a service we prioritise staff wellbeing and are active in ensuring that our team values are demonstrated in practice and are a vital part of our working culture. Working hours are generally Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, though there is plenty of opportunity to work flexibly as we are looking to expand our opening hours as part of our service transformation plans and work around your unique needs as an employee.

We are always interested in hearing new ideas and creative ways of working to meet the needs of our service users and support quality improvements, therefore your voice does matter and will be included in key service developments.

The roles available are extremely varied and as a service we are interested in playing to your clinical strengths and developing your clinical interests and skills. You will receive ongoing support through regular monthly clinical supervision and separate line management support. You will also be actively encouraged to be part of peer supervision and will have the opportunity in your job plan to attend specialist treatment modality consultations. As part of your professional development, you will be supported in pursuing and attending relevant in-house training and will have external opportunities to embark on further professional qualifications relevant to the post.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Shannon Langdale Job title: Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 716 3600

If you still remain unsure and feel like you need further information or indeed would like an informal visit/chat please contact Shannon Langdale 0161 716 3600

Open to B4 staff due to qualify as B5