Senior Mental Health Practitioner (CAMHS)

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in the UK is looking for clinicians to provide comprehensive mental health support to children and young people in school environments. This role involves delivering assessments, interventions, and consultations while collaborating closely with educational staff. Ideal candidates should have transferable clinical skills, a background in mental health, and a commitment to improving the wellbeing of children. The position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of young people in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience with direct work involving children and young people.
• Ability to consult with educational staff on mental health issues.
• Knowledge of clinical risk management and safeguarding procedures.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mental health interventions within school settings.
• Provide support and advice to other clinical colleagues.
• Identify and address emerging mental health needs among students.

Skills

Transferable clinical skills

Experience in children's/adult mental health settings

Consultation skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Job description

The service welcomes those clinicians who may be currently working within other children's or adult mental health settings who have the necessary transferable clinical skills and experience.

Key elements of the role are:

• Work in partnership with schools to deliver consultation, assessment of children/young people and a range of mental health interventions within school settings. This will involve direct work with children/young people as well as offering specialist consultation, signposting and advice to professional networks, including teaching staff
• To provide support to other clinical colleagues
• Be responsible and ensure the effective care co-ordination, support and advice around clinical care provided within schools, especially including consideration of safeguarding and clinical risk issues
• Consult with teachers, school staff and mental health leads in schools to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs, as part of a whole school approach. This may include supporting the EMHP's in delivering parenting support, group work, work with parents and psychoeducation within a school setting

Our service is very proud of the positive impact we make on the children and young people we work with and the encouraging feedback we receive as a service from school staff alongside children and families. We have a strong multi-disciplinary ethos in our clinical delivery and have robust clinical supervision structures.