Specialist Mental Health Practitioner - CFHD

• Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments, working collaboratively with children, young people, and their families to develop care plans tailored to their needs.
• Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions, such as CBT, DBT-informed approaches, and systemic family work, ensuring alignment with best practice guidelines.
• Manage a caseload of children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, providing high-quality, person-centred care.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team, liaising with professionals across health, education, and social care to ensure a holistic approach to care.
• Assess and manage risk effectively, implementing safeguarding procedures where necessary.
• Provide supervision and support to junior staff, trainees, and multi-disciplinary colleagues, fostering professional growth within the team.
• Contribute to service development, participating in audits, quality improvement initiatives, and shaping the future of mental health services for children and young people in North Devon.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and uphold professional and organisational standards in all aspects of care.

Essential

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
• Experience of undertaking specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions for in the area of childrens mental health, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments

Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to Masters level with a relevant core professional training e.g. Psychological profession, Nursing, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy
• Training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach
• Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP, BABCP
• Training in supervision and/or leadership skills or willing to work towards
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development