Mental Health Practitioner - MelkshaminMelkshaminMelkshamPUBLISHED WED 2 APR 2025
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In this fulfilling position, you'll provide comprehensive mental health support to children, young individuals, and their families facing challenges. Our team is known for its warmth and support, and we champion continuous learning and growth through tailored training opportunities. You'll play a vital role in conducting assessments, delivering recovery-focused interventions, and collaborating with local services to ensure every young person receives the right care at the right time. Join us in making a meaningful difference while advancing your career in an environment that prioritises your professional development.
*Open to newly qualified and experienced practitioners *
If you are a Mental Health, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, and you are passionate about child and adolescent mental health, then we would love to hear from you!
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Melksham, and make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances.
In this role, you will work in Melksham CAMHS teams to deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children, young people and their families who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
We're a welcoming and supportive team, and we offer a number of training and development opportunities.
Please note that we are conducting interviews on a face to face basis and we will need you to be available to interview on site for this role.
As a Mental Health Practitioner you will be responsible for initial assessment, delivery and evaluation of care and provide psycho-educational advice and practical support to young people and their families by drawing on evidence- based interventions and using a collaborative, recovery focused approach. Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role.
We predominantly offer short term, goal- based interventions for young people who need more support than that available from first line services, such as school nurses or school counsellors.
You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the i-Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills.Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children's Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Services and Police is central to the role.
About us
In BSW we have a strong commitment to staff development and progression. Over the last year we have developed a comprehensive CAMHS specific training programme for all staff at all levels. Our training programme includes multiple internal trainings relevant to CAMHS, it also links with external trainings funded through HEE.
Managers work closely with all staff to ensure they have the right training to enable them to confidently and competently deliver high standard interventions to children and young people.
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