Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol

• Work across the CAMHS Getting Advice Team and Community Locality Teams, supporting Children in Care and Care Experienced Children and Young People across BNSSG.
• Triage referrals and undertake specialist mental health and risk assessments to ensure timely access to appropriate support.
• Manage a specialist caseload, providing formulation, care planning, evidence-based interventions and ongoing risk management.
• Deliver trauma-informed, child-centred care in partnership with children, young people, carers, families and multi-agency professionals.
• Provide consultation, advice and specialist mental health expertise to colleagues and partner agencies.
• Contribute to safeguarding processes and promote effective risk assessment and management.
• Support transitions between services, including transition to adult mental health services where appropriate.
• Provide clinical supervision, consultation and support to Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners and wider colleagues.
• Share specialist knowledge of trauma, attachment, mental health and the needs of Children in Care to support workforce development.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives and the ongoing enhancement of the specialist Children in Care pathway within BNSSG CAMHS.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and work in line with professional, organisational and statutory requirements.

Essential

• Relevant completed professional qualification (e.g. clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy, occupational therapy, accredited CBT, psychotherapy)
• Maintenance of appropriate professional registration (i.e. HCPC, UKCP,NME)

Desirable

• Additional training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS
• Experience in a community Adult Mental Health/Young Person service

Essential

• Knowledge of national and local guidelines/policy regarding provision of public sector services to children/young people and their families
• Experience of risk assessment and management appropriate to children and young people. Including young people who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments, Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines

Desirable

• Experience in a community CAMHS service

Essential

• Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds
• Ability to organise and prioritise client caseload
• Ability to be flexible about where the child and family are seen e.g. clinic, school or home
• Ability to be sensitive to complex emotional issues
• Ability to write concise reports for referrers, families and other agencies
• Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their carers
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within the team