Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (FTC-12 months)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 342-CAMHS090-0724
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Woodland View
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - Woodland View
Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated clinician to work within the North Bristol CAMHS team as a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner on a 12 month fixed term contract. We invite applications from candidates looking for full-time and part-time work (minimum 22.5hrs/week) as there is flexibility in the contract.
We are a service working with children and young people with complex mental health needs. We use the CAPA model of assessment and treatment, which would involve working with a variety of clinical presentations and needs, including: suicidal thoughts, low mood, anxiety, OCD and emerging psychosis, often alongside neurodiversity. We also have a lot of referrals for young people with disordered eating and diagnosed Eating Disorders, and there are opportunities to work within this clinic if this is something you are interested in.
We are looking for a practitioner with a core professional registration (eg. with HCPC or the NMC), including registered nurses, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, art therapists and CBT therapists. You may have existing CAMHS experience, or have experience in an equivalent community team working with adults.
North Bristol is an area of significant disparities in health, wealth and access. We are committed to working in a manner which is inclusive and anti-oppressive, and invite applications from staff who share these values.
Main duties of the job
To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
To work with and support the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.
To contribute to the rota/duty system providing telephone support and advice to young people, carers and professionals who are open to North Bristol CAMHS.
You would also contribute to the CAMHS Getting Advice team to support in triaging referrals made to the wider CAMHS service, working in the team for one day per week.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To carry out assessments of a child or young person’s mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.
To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.
To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
Please see attached job description for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications/ registration
Essential criteria
- • Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
- To maintain professional registration
Desirable criteria
- • Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents
- • Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people. Including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
- Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their relatives.
- Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hazel Nash
- Job title
- North Bristol CAMHS Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 354 6800
- Additional information
We welcome potential applicants to make contact to discuss the opportunities of this role prior to submitting an application and/or if offered an interview.
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