Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol

• To carry out assessments of a child or young person's mental health needs and associated risk
• To develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
• To provide a comprehensive formulation of needs and appropriate onwards signposting
• To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend CAMHS case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate

• To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.
• To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
• To inform and influence child mental health strategy including the development of joint agency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships.
• To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young peoples mental health.
• To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
• When appropriate within the role to engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with line manager.
• As required, contribute to the triage of CAMHS referrals and other tasks within Getting Advice such as providing advice to families/carers and professionals via the Advice Line
• To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their professional body.
• To comply with any necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality

Essential

• Current registration with the NMC, Allied Health Professional with HCPC registration or UKCP registration and commitment to CPD or relevant professional registration and/or accreditation

Desirable

• Relevant post-registration qualifications relevant to children's and adolescent mental health and systemic therapeutic skills.

Essential

• Experience of using assessment skills of mental illness and risk in children and young people
• Working knowledge of how specialist child and adolescent mental health services are organised and operate; where and how they fit into the health and social care community
• Demonstrates experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies with young people

Desirable

• Experience gained in working mental health with children young people and families
• Experience of specialist training in delivering evidence-based intervention to children, young people and families

Essential

• Good verbal communication skills, able to engage effectively with young people, families and carers as well as professionals from a wide range of services
• Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.