CAMHS level 3 - Systemic Family Practitioner

You will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, deliver systemic interventions to children, young people and families, and contribute to screening and Single Point of Access activity. The role requires confidence in managing complexity, undertaking risk assessments and working with families where there may be significant safeguarding concerns, conflict, uncertainty or risk. You will contribute to multi-agency planning and decision-making, ensuring children and young people receive timely and appropriate support.

As a senior practitioner within the team, you will hold a caseload of complex cases involving a range of mental health presentations, often alongside safeguarding concerns, family adversity, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, emotional dysregulation and multiple interacting risks. You will utilise systemic formulation to understand the child or young person's difficulties within the context of their relationships, family dynamics, community and wider professional systems, ensuring interventions are collaborative, culturally responsive and outcome focused.

You will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, deliver systemic interventions to children, young people and families, and contribute to screening and Single Point of Access activity. The role requires confidence in managing complexity, undertaking risk assessments and working with families where there may be significant safeguarding concerns, conflict, uncertainty or risk. You will contribute to multi-agency planning and decision-making, ensuring children and young people receive timely and appropriate support.

A key aspect of the role will be using systemic principles to influence the professional networks around children and families. You will provide consultation, mentoring and reflective support to colleagues, helping to develop systemic thinking across the service and supporting practitioners to understand and respond effectively to complex family and professional dynamics.

You will work closely with health, education, social care and voluntary sector partners, contributing to training, service development and partnership working. As a Level 3 practitioner, you will be expected to take a lead role in supporting colleagues with complex case discussions, contributing specialist systemic expertise whilst promoting high-quality, trauma-informed and relationship-based practice across the service.

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