Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join their CAMHS Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
JOB PURPOSE
The post holder will deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children, young people and their families experiencing mental health difficulties. The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, treatment and evaluation of care and provide psycho-educational advice and practical support to young people and their families by drawing on psychosocial evidence based interventions and using a collaborative, recovery focused approach. Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an essential part of the role.
The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other team members as agreed with the Team Manager and participate in the team service development and evaluation.
Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS and Children services colleagues and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Services and Police is also central to the role.
Monday to Friday and weekend working options available. Flexible working across 7 days
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Responsibilities
Undertake a care co-ordinator role for children and young people open to the team and work collaboratively with young people, their families and wider care team in the context of their environment.
Providing effective assessment, planning and review of care needs using the CPA process.
Establishing, maintaining and ending purposeful, therapeutic relationships with children and young people experiencing severe mental health difficulties. Practice will be creative and underpinned by specialist knowledge of, and skills in, evidence based and psychosocial interventions.
Using knowledge of psychological therapies, for example CBT, DBT and Solution Focused approaches.
Providing time-limited intervention, identifying appropriate discharge goals and working positively with risk using own professional judgment and team processes.
Assessing risk in collaboration with children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties, significant others and other workers/professionals, alongside use of own professional judgment and team processes. This involves exploring individual’s risk of harm to themselves and/or others and may involve working with challenging, hostile and distressing behaviour.
Identifying and agreeing Recovery Care Plans and risk management plans with individuals and other relevant people and share these appropriately.
To pro-actively provide health education and advice to promote a reduction in risk taking behaviour among young people.
Communicating highly complex information to a range of people and professionals with a wide range of levels of understanding. Identifying barriers to understanding and using creative methods to overcome them.
Communicating highly complex information between mental health practitioners and other professionals in wider agencies.
Providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information in relation to Safeguarding and Child Protection work and taking appropriate action. This includes identifying and appropriately reporting concerns to Children’s Social Care while using communication skills in order to maintain a professional working relationship with parents and significant others in often hostile and highly emotive situations.
Providing and receiving information from carers, significant others and members of the community.
Using a systemic approach to working with individuals, their families and significant others. Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with carers and significant others.
Identifying and engaging with practitioners with specialist knowledge, for example by requesting specialist knowledge or clinical supervision sessions where appropriate.
Working without direct supervision and being accountable for own actions.
Skilled and constructive use of own supervision sessions, engagement in reflective practice, commitment to continuously develop self-awareness and work appropriately within professional boundaries.