Band 6 CAMHS Practitioner

Role Overview

The post holder will provide high-quality assessment for patients referred into Solar, playing a key 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).

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload and offer 1:1 therapeutic intervention within the service.
• Work with partner agencies (statutory and third sector) to ensure a coordinated approach to managing the care of children and young people in Solihull.
• Ensure the most relevant care pathway and care plan is devised and where needed, provide seamless transition into other Solar teams and practitioners.
• Contribute to a reduction in avoidable presentations to A&E departments.

Detailed Duties

• 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 includes:
  • Providing highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments/risk management.
  • Promoting recovery and inclusion and ensuring coproduction with service users, families, carers, and 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.
• Participate in the development of the service, setting quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring, and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Promote carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with service users, and the implementation of evidence-based therapeutic interventions.