CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

Job Opportunity

We are seeking a mental health nurse, social worker, psychologist or any Allied Health Professional registered with a professional body to join our CAMHS team. The post is located in our well established partnership team and you will receive regular supervision and support to develop your clinical skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a range of high quality interventions appropriate to the child or young person’s needs which will include; mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, formulation and evidence based interventions.
• Deliver clinical aspects of the role in a multi-disciplinary team setting and work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines.
• Promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services framework.
• Assume responsibility for management of a defined caseload and exercise the highest standards of professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children, young people and their families/carers using specialist knowledge and evaluation of care programmes in collaboration with children, young people and their families/carers, liaising with and referring to relevant agencies.
• Undertake assessment of children, young people including risk assessment, gathering appropriate information their family/ carers and other relevant agencies.
• Develop a formulation and plan for intervention with the child, young person and parents/carers. Communicate this to the referrer/other relevant professionals.
• Offer therapeutic, evidence-based practiced, interventions in line with NICE guidelines.
• Implement, co-ordinate and regularly review further assessment and a range of therapeutic interventions, including risk management.
• Routinely monitor effectiveness of clinical work by use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROM).
• Ensure that the perspective of children, young people and families is incorporated into all aspects of assessment and treatment.
• The role involves travel to other locations within MFT and within the local community.