Mental Health Practitioner

As a Mental Health Practitioner in The Core Team within

Wakefield CAMHS, the main duties would be as follows:

Hold and manage a caseload independently.

Provide thorough risk assessments and care

planning.

Provide therapeutic intervention through both

1:1 work and group work with young people in the locality.

Provide urgent assessments when required.

Work in a trauma-informed way.

Work with other agencies; schools, social care

etc.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to

have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

At the time of advertising,

this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to

sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your

application.

Provide assessment and treatment to children

and young people with mental health needs;

Work autonomously and collaboratively within

the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals;

Promote the safeguarding and welfare of

children and young people.

provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a

wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to

specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from

a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall

framework of the teams policies and procedures.

1

To support the

ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.

2

To provide

assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most

severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who

are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families

as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in

a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the

CAPA model.

3

To apply a sound

knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.

4

To be committed

to a quality approach for patient care.

5

The

post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained

effort in assessment of complex family issues.

6

manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual

need.

7

To operate within the clinical and case management

supervision framework.

8

To provide training, consultation and supervision to

other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as

required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and

families.

9

To participate in the development, audit and

review of this extension to existing service provision.

10

To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow

specialist CAMHS practitioners.

11

To work collaboratively with all services to provide

coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young

people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and

relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and

targeted groups.

12

To use a range of Information Technology systems

(including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept

securely and confidentially

are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health

and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,

Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are

the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is

to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this

by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ

staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a

difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage

and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value

diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being

a foundation Trust means were accountable to our

members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people

(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join

us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving

the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and

help each year.

are committed

to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and

vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this

commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Training

Desirable: - Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS; - Experience of delivering training to others

Special Knowledge/Skills

Qualifications

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of community settings; - Experience of working in different cultural contexts; - Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.

Personal Attributes

Physical Attributes