Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - North Somerset CAMHS inWeston Super Mare inWeston Super Mare PUBLISHED 28 OCT 2024
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Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon are thriving seaside towns within commuting distance to Bristol and Taunton. The M5 motorway within easy access.
Weston-super-Mare is a growing multi-cultural area with numerous amenities and has access to the beautiful coastline & also the Mendip Hills.
The area is ideal for those who like an active lifestyle but also who want to be within reach of Bristol and Taunton.
There are a number of outstanding Ofsted rated schools within the area.
North Somerset child and adolescent mental health team (CAMHS) currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme.
We offer flexible working patterns and have the benefit of working across 2 sites in Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon.
The team also provides Eating Disorder & Learning Disability Services and so have the potential to offer development opportunities.
The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary, working as part of the leadership team to provide assessment, treatments for children, adolescents & their families with complex mental health needs.
We particularly welcome applications from accredited CBT therapist or those who are coming up toaccreditation.
We welcome calls/visits from prospective candidate to discuss in more detail, this opportunity, & what the team can offer.
- To carry out assessments and provide treatment for young people presenting with significant mental health difficulties in the community.
- To be highly skilled in clinical risk assessment and management in relation to children and young people including experience of managing self-injurious behaviour. To be able to develop and to implement and review risk management and safety plans collaboratively.
- To be able to offer evidence based interventions to children, young people and families according to NICE guidance and local pathways of care.
- To hold and to manage a case load and using resources creatively to provide excellent intervention for children, young people and families; uniquely tailoring therapeutic interventions to meet the needs of service users
- To be able to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as with the wider team and partner agencies within the North Somerset Team and the wider systems within a collaborative care model approach.
- To work and provide leadership in the assessment and treatment within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
- To work with the team and the wider care system to deliver care which can positively impact on the welfare of the child.
To provide a specialist assessment, consultation and evidence based treatment service to children, their families or their professional carers, referred to CAMHS team.
To manage own caseload from referral to discharge, holding medium to high risk cases working autonomously the majority of time using highly developed specialist expertise.
To always work within Trust/best practice safeguarding guidelines and policy.
To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings.
To work to a job plan and participate in Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) in the delivery of Tier 3 CAMHS. This will include specialist assessments and evidence based treatment for children, adolescents and their families.
To work with children, young people and their families promoting opportunities for their maximum engagement and involvement in formulation, care planning and evaluation of the service they receive.
To ensure throughput of young people managing and creating regular appointment slots in work schedule.
To work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team providing leadership in an agreed area.
To liaise closely with our partnership agencies of Education, Social Services and the Voluntary Sector in order to facilitate proper coordination and development of services for children/young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health problems.
To liaise with other disciplines and agencies to ensure the best practice is shared.
To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the childs home.
To participate in suitable clinical and caseload supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively.
To engage young people and their families with suitable strategies and approaches.
To use IT and technology to maintain affective communication and clinical record keeping.
To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing AWP Trust policies.
To keep up to date with statutory mandatory training
Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon are thriving seaside towns within commuting distance to Bristol and Taunton. The M5 motorway within easy access.
Weston-super-Mare is a growing multi-cultural area with numerous amenities and has access to the beautiful coastline & also the Mendip Hills.
The area is ideal for those who like an active lifestyle but also who want to be within reach of Bristol and Taunton.
There are a number of outstanding Ofsted rated schools within the area.
North Somerset child and adolescent mental health team (CAMHS) currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme.
We offer flexible working patterns and have the benefit of working across 2 sites in Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon.
The team also provides Eating Disorder & Learning Disability Services and so have the potential to offer development opportunities.
The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary, working as part of the leadership team to provide assessment, treatments for children, adolescents & their families with complex mental health needs.
We particularly welcome applications from accredited CBT therapist or those who are coming up toaccreditation.
We welcome calls/visits from prospective candidate to discuss in more detail, this opportunity, & what the team can offer.
- To carry out assessments and provide treatment for young people presenting with significant mental health difficulties in the community.
- To be highly skilled in clinical risk assessment and management in relation to children and young people including experience of managing self-injurious behaviour. To be able to develop and to implement and review risk management and safety plans collaboratively.
- To be able to offer evidence based interventions to children, young people and families according to NICE guidance and local pathways of care.
- To hold and to manage a case load and using resources creatively to provide excellent intervention for children, young people and families; uniquely tailoring therapeutic interventions to meet the needs of service users
- To be able to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as with the wider team and partner agencies within the North Somerset Team and the wider systems within a collaborative care model approach.
- To work and provide leadership in the assessment and treatment within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
- To work with the team and the wider care system to deliver care which can positively impact on the welfare of the child.
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To provide a specialist assessment, consultation and evidence based treatment service to children, their families or their professional carers, referred to CAMHS team.
To manage own caseload from referral to discharge, holding medium to high risk cases working autonomously the majority of time using highly developed specialist expertise.
To always work within Trust/best practice safeguarding guidelines and policy.
To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings.
To work to a job plan and participate in Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA) in the delivery of Tier 3 CAMHS. This will include specialist assessments and evidence based treatment for children, adolescents and their families.
To work with children, young people and their families promoting opportunities for their maximum engagement and involvement in formulation, care planning and evaluation of the service they receive.
To ensure throughput of young people managing and creating regular appointment slots in work schedule.
To work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team providing leadership in an agreed area.
To liaise closely with our partnership agencies of Education, Social Services and the Voluntary Sector in order to facilitate proper coordination and development of services for children/young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health problems.
To liaise with other disciplines and agencies to ensure the best practice is shared.
To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the childs home.
To participate in suitable clinical and caseload supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively.
To engage young people and their families with suitable strategies and approaches.
To use IT and technology to maintain affective communication and clinical record keeping.
To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing AWP Trust policies.
To keep up to date with statutory mandatory training
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