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CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS TrustGlasshoughton, Castleford
30+ days ago
Salary
£35,392.00–£42,618.00 yearly
Job type
  • Permanent
Job description

Job summary

Are youpassionate about helping young people with mental health problems? Do you haveexperience of working with Children in Care and their extended networks and arecommitted to getting the best outcomes for them? If you answer yes to thesequestions, then Wakefield CAMHS is for you!

We are lookingfor an experienced and confident Mental Health Practitioner who is able to workwithin a busy multidisciplinary team during this exciting period of growth anddevelopment. You must have significant and demonstrable experience of workingwith young people and their families / carers / networks, particularly Children inCare, who can often present with a range of complex mental health needs.

You must have arange of skills and knowledge to deliver the clinical aspects of the role. Youmust be able to work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practiceguidelines and a structured supervision framework.

Enquires arestrongly encouraged. Please call 01977 735866 and speak with Team Manager Charlie Hindle.

Please be awarethat you must meet all the essential qualification requirements of the role (asdescribed in the person specification) to be considered for interview. You willneed to be a registered with a core profession.

Main duties of the job

Hold a caseload of young people with complexmental health concerns

  • Attend MDT meetings
  • Liaise with other agencies, such as Social CareDirect, on a regular basis
  • Ensuring documentation and relevant paperworkis up to date and accurate
  • Conduct risk assessments and support youngpeople, carers / parents to manage the risks identified
  • Offer therapeutic intervention to young peopleon your caseload

Support with the dutyworker rota (within working hours)

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants areusing AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We stronglydiscourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selectingcandidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance yourapplication, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide assessment and treatment to childrenand young people with mental health needs.

Work autonomously and collaboratively withinthe MDT, providing consultation for other agencies / professionals.

Promote the safeguarding and welfare ofchildren and young people.

Toprovide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with awide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred tospecialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision froma senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overallframework of the teams policies and procedures.

To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.

Toprovide assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with themost severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those whoare severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, familiesas both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in avariety of settings to address need. This will include working with the CAPAmodel.

Toapply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinicalwork.

Tobe committed to a quality approach for patient care.

A ll employees of the Trust are stronglyencouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification, nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
  • Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
  • Membership of professional body.

    • Desirable

  • Post Registration qualification degree.
  • Post graduate qualification in mental health ( CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
  • A teaching and assessing qualification.

    • Physical Attributes

    Essential

  • Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and / or pregnancy).

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting.
  • Multidisciplinary team working.
  • Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
  • Experience of supervising / mentoring junior staff.
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Childrens act, Education Act, Working Together, Childrens NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
  • Clinical / therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
  • Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice.
  • Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
  • Experience of safeguarding children and young people.

    • Desirable

  • Experience of community settings.
  • Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
  • Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.

    • Training

    Desirable

  • Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS.
  • Experience of delivering training to others.

    • Special Knowledge and Skills

    Essential

  • Good verbal and communication skills.
  • Ability to manage own caseload.
  • Good negotiation skills, and problem solving skills.
  • Customer service orientation.
  • Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
  • IT skills.
  • Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.

    • Personal Attributes

    Essential

  • Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
  • Commitment to multi-agency approach.
  • Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
  • Calm, confident, innovative, creative
  • and assertive.
  • Clarity of decision making.
  • Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
  • Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
  • Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
  • To demonstrate good self care and encourage the same in team members.
  • A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).