Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Description of the Duties

Clinical Responsibilities

1. To carry out assessments of a child or young person’s mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.
2. To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible for the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
3. To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.
4. To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
5. When appropriate within the role to engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with line manager.
6. As required, contribute to the triage of CAMHS referrals.

Professional Responsibilities

1. To participate in suitable personal clinical and management supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively.
2. To keep records and to provide clinical reports on interventions and outcomes.
3. To develop and sustain links and working relationships with the different community-based CAMH teams.
4. To practice within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the Safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004) and local guidelines.
5. To work within relevant Professional Body guidelines.
6. To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing NHS Trust policies.

Research and Development

1. To inform and influence child mental health strategy including the development of joint agency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships.
2. To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young people’s mental health.
3. To participate in obtaining service users’ views and to involve service users in the design and delivery of accessible CAMH provision in the community.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Registration

Essential Criteria

• Relevant professional qualification (e.g., clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
• To maintain professional registration

Desirable Criteria

• Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.

Knowledge

Essential Criteria

• Experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents.
• Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people, including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
• Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments, Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines.

Skills

Essential Criteria

• Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their relatives.
• Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds.