CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

Essential

• Professional degree or equivalent qualification in nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or other relevant profession with related CAMHS experience.
• Applicants must hold current registration with the relevant professional regulator, such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Social Work England or the Health and Care Professions Council. Applicants from a psychotherapy profession must hold appropriate registration with an accredited professional register.

Desirable

• Previous experience of specialist mental health assessment or treatment of children and young people and their families or carers within a multidisciplinary team in a community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting
• Experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their families/carers across the whole range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Post qualifying experience of working as a specialistmental health working within a mental health setting
• Experience of teaching and or training other professionals

Essential

• Skills in being able to communication effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and or clinically sensitive information to clients their families and or clinically sensitive information to clients their families or carers and other professionals colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Willingness to develop skills in complex mental health assessment through training and supervision
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across a range of agencies
• Ability to provide a therapeutic environment which contributes to children's healthy development
• Highly dependable and able to meet deadlines
• Ability to work as part of a close-knit team
• Proactive and motivated, with the ability to organise a varied workload
• Being flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities
• Interest and ability to contribute to service development
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Educational Structures, National policies and frameworks
• A knowledge of and commitment to Equal opportunities and promoting diversity

Desirable

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Skills in delivering training to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the relevant professional body
• Car driver to enable delivery of service in community settings
• Good knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term child and adolescent mental health, development and psychiatry and its application to a specialist area
• Advanced knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies
• Good level of specialist CAMHS knowledge which is evidence based