Mental Health Practitioner

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. Work as part of CAMHS first on-call rota. 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: To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system. 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. To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work. To be committed to a quality approach for patient care. The post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues. To manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need. To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework. 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. To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision. To work as part of the CAMHS on call rota when required and to work in a flexible manner (24/7). For full job description, please see attached supporting documents