CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner in Keighley inKeighley PUBLISHED MON 17 FEB 2025 Jump to job information section

Are you looking to support and improve the mental wellbeing of Looked After and Adopted Children/Young People who are one of the most vulnerable groups in our community. Do you have some experience or would you like to develop your skills in supporting this group via a therapeutic intervention both to the young people and their carers?

Would you like to be a part of an enthusiastic and supportive team? Then the Looked After and Adopted Team in CAMHS, Bradford is the place where we would welcome you as a practitioner and your skills/knowledge will be embraced.

Bradford District Care Foundation Trust can offer you compassionate and inclusive leadership. We are keen to hear and learn from your experience to further develop our trauma informed service. We truly respect the expertise new staff bring to our service.

If you are passionate about offering a service to Looked After and Adopted Children and keen to work collaboratively with colleagues across CAMHS and other agencies such as Children's Social Care, Child In Care Nurses and Education, then we would welcome an application from you.

If you would like further information about this role, please contact Indira Patel Team Leader LAAC or telephone number or Wendy Lewis Clinical Lead

Closing Date: 9th March 2025

Short Listing Date : 10th March 2025

Interview Date: 17th March 2025

We Would Welcome Applications From

• Nurses
• Social Workers
• Occupational Therapist
  
  

To provide a high standard of support and care to Looked After and Adopted Children and their carer's/parents.

To undertake clinical formulation alongside other professionals and make decisions about the right intervention for a child and or their carer's.

To undertake medium to long term identified therapeutic work with young people and or their carer's/ adoptive parents.

To undertake assessments, Care Plans and Risk assessment in line with the young persons needs.

To work closely with your colleagues in your team who vary from Psychologist, nurses, social workers to Assistant Psychologist.

To work collaboratively and liaise with other professionals such as Children's Social Care, Children In Care Nurses, and school staff.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Indira Patel Team Manager Job title: CAMHS Looked After and Adoption Team LAAC Email address: Telephone number:

Wendy Lewis