Crisis Care CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

• AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment)
• Social Work and Nurse Apprenticeship
• DBT skills workshops
• STORM Skills Training (Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Mitigation)
• Risk formulation Training

Essential

• Relevant core professional qualification in mental health (nursing, social work or occupational therapy)
• Evidence of current professional registration and continued professional development
• Educated to first degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and abilities to work at this level.
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy, IT and keyboard skills
• Short courses and experience to post graduate diploma level

Desirable

• Training in one or more additional specialised areas of practice including children and young people
• Evidence of teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• Mentorship qualification

Essential

• Significant experience in either community or inpatient settings which meet the core competencies of the post
• Experience of assessment, formulation and managing complex cases and risk within a mental health service
• An extensive range of clinical experience within the speciality or within a care pathway
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for patients' care and treatment and case management
• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of supervision of less experienced practitioners within the MDT
• Effective skills to be able to communicate, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
• Experience of report writing

Desirable

• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life span and presenting with the full range of severity.
• Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate the impact of their clinical practice
• Experience of children and young peoples' inpatient mental health care
• Experience of working across professional / organisational boundaries

Essential

• Knowledge and implementation of the use of outcome measures
• Knowledge of therapeutic interventions with CYP
• Knowledge of the policy guidance and legislation specifically relating to children and young people
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health, including the Mental Health Act and issues of capacity and consent
• Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures, responsibilities and application in practice
• Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
• Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
• Research and development methodology.
• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.

Desirable

• A general understanding of evidenced based psychological therapies from a range of modalities, including systemic working
• Understanding of the acuity and demands of CYP inpatient services
• Knowledge of referral systems and general bed management procedures
• A general understanding of evidenced based psychological therapies from a range of modalities, including systemic working
• Understanding of the acuity and demands of CYP inpatient services
• Knowledge of referral systems and general bed management procedures

Essential

• Have sound assessment skills and ability to articulate outcomes to CYP, families, other clinicians, practitioners and stakeholders
• Ability to provide management and clinical supervision to the workforce
• Ability to remain motivated
• Ability to carry out therapeutic interventions with this patient group
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
• Demonstrable commitment to the focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
• Ability to work across boundaries and look for collective success, listens, involves and respects and learns from the contributions of others
• High level mental health assessment and risk assessment and formulation skills
• Case management skills focusing on the needs of the CYP and the context of their pathway in relation to all clinical and legal processes
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
• Able to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
• Good organiser, influencer and networker
• Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable children and young people and their families and carers.
• Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
• Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team
• Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
• Committed to continual quality and service improvement
• Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
• Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework