Specialist Mental Health PractitionerNHS

Job summary

The Children in Care Team are looking to recruit a full time, Band 6 Specialist Mental Health Practitioner to join their team of multi-disciplinary professionals.

The Children in Care Team offer consultation, training and intervention to children and young people and their care and professional networks where presentation relates to attachment and complex trauma.

The successful candidate will:

Work collaboratively with young people and their care networks

Offer direct therapeutic intervention, systemic practice, consultation and training to staff within the service and other agencies

Provide assessment and therapeutic interventions at Tier 3

Main duties of the job

• To ensure that care activities are research based and in keeping with changes in the field of activity.
• To contribute to the development of ideas and innovative practice and propose changes to protocols and procedures within CAMHS where required.
• To initiate and participate in departmental audit as requested by the Team Manager or Quality Improvement Lead.
• To participate in the Duty rota on a weekly basis.

Job description

Demonstrate the clear and effective use of outcome measures for all clients as dictated by the trust.

Complete evidence based assessments/consultation in partnership with the service user and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Following appropriate assessment/consultation; develop person and system related care plans to enable recovery.

To develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with children, young people and carers who may at times be in situations of emotional distress.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.