Band 6 CAMHS Practitioner

Role Overview

The post holder will provide high-quality assessment for patients referred into Solar, offering a role in risk assessment and management, formulation of need, information gathering, and offering advice and guidance to children and young people directly and those who support them (parents/carers, family and professional support networks e.g., school nurses, teachers, social workers).

The post holder will manage a defined caseload and offer 1:1 therapeutic intervention within the service.

The post holder will work with partner agencies (statutory and third sector) to ensure a coordinated approach is taken to manage the care of children and young people in Solihull.

The post holder will ensure the most relevant care pathway and care plan is devised and where needed provide seamless transition into other Solar teams and practitioners.

The post holder will contribute to a reduction in avoidable presentations to A&E departments.

Responsibilities

• To work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning, and care delivery for service users with moderate to severe mental health/emotional difficulties. This will include the provision of highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments/risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion, and ensuring coproduction with service users, families, and carers and the education staff.
• Responsible for the appropriate clinical risk assessment of service users, providing an effective advice, guidance, and decision-making process culminating in the coordination of any reviewed plan of care in line with the Care Programmed Approach.
• Responsible for the admission, case conference/reviews, and discharge in collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Responsible for participating in the development of the service, setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring, and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Responsible for the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision.
• Responsible for establishing therapeutic relationships with service users, and the implementation of evidence-based therapeutic interventions.