Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol
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About the Role
To improve children and young people’s timely access to CAMHS as part of a newly developed service:
- Working within the i-Thrive framework
- Working within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
- Holding a caseload of young people from the point of triage to assessment offering evidence-based intervention and through to discharge.
- Working with and supporting the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.
- Working within Getting Advice (the CAMHS front door) and across defined locality teams.
- Contributing on a rota basis to CAMHS Triage and Getting Advice within Bristol and South Glos and North Somerset.
- Working with children, young people and families in an accessible/flexible approach using an outreach model.
The team are a new part of the CAMHS service helping to transform access for young people. They are a dynamic team who are passionate about young people’s mental health and working across CAMHS and our partner agencies. The team are committed to continuous staff development and CPD, including reflective space and have a strong focus on staff wellbeing. If you wish to be part of developing this team and are passionate about young people’s mental health please get in touch.
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Key Responsibilities
- To carry out assessments of a child or young person’s mental health needs and associated risk.
- To develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible for the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
- To provide a comprehensive formulation of needs and appropriate onwards signposting.
- To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend CAMHS case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate.
About the Organisation
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
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Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Lois Richards
- Job title: CAMHS Getting Advice Team Manager
- Email address: lois.richards@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0117 340 8570
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