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Trosolwg o'r swydd

We are looking to recruit a highly skilled, motivated Practitioner with the appropriate professional qualification and experience to work in the multi-disciplinary CAMHS Targeted Team. This is a countywide post 

We are an award winning Community Team working with children and young people presenting with emotional and behavioural problems, complex trauma and attachment difficulties impacting on emotional distress and impacting on their mental health. The children we support always have a social worker who is actively supporting the family and who may be on the edge of care, Looked after by the local authority or children who have been adopted. 

CAMHS Targeted Team is a welcoming, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team who are committed to providing innovative, inclusive  high quality care.  We offer a variety of evidence based specialist therapeutic interventions  : Trauma focused CBT, work informed by Dyadic developmental psychotherapy, play therapy, reflective network spaces and we use our knowledge of trauma and attachment to support those receiving the service whether this is direct or indirect work for the child/carers and or the network. The post holder will provide a high standard of care to children, adolescents and their families/carers and to the professional networks around the child. The team work work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.
To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.