Senior Mental Health Practitioner (CAMHS)

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service is looking for clinicians to provide mental health support to children and young people in schools. In this role, you will deliver interventions, supervise EMHPs, and collaborate with educational staff. Your clinical expertise will contribute to the well-being of students, ensuring effective care and safeguarding.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health settings working with children and young people.
• Transferable clinical skills required.
• Ability to consult with educational staff about mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mental health interventions within school settings.
• Provide case management supervision for EMHPs.
• Consult with teachers to identify and support children with emerging mental health needs.

Skills

Clinical skills

Child and adolescent mental health

Consultation skills

Supervision

Safeguarding

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 case management supervision to both qualified and trainee EMHPs within the Mental Health Support Team
• 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 and school staff 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 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.