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CAMHS Practitioner | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 October 2024 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 0HG |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6638084/319-6638084KD |
Summary
Applications are invited for a Children's and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Practitioner to work within North Tyneside, predominantly into the multidisciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment team.
The duties of the post will include contributing to specialist assessment to help those around the child make sense of their difficulties (all aspects of assessment, including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, learning, systemic factors, the role of trauma). We are looking for someone with an interest and experience in neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD, ASC and mental health.
Essential previous experience will include: working in mental health services (or equivalent) with children and their families is essential, preferably in CAMHS; experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions; and specifically, assessment within a diagnostic context of such conditions.
The main duties include:
To play a key role in the provision of an highly specialist service to Children, Young People and their families accessing North Tyneside Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. To offer community based and out patient mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and their families.
Working into the neurodevelopmental specialty within CAMHS although may be required to work across locality CAMHS Teams as required.
Flexibility of working pattern to meet the needs of service users.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Working across locality CAMHS Teams as required.
Working with children from birth to eighteen and their families.
Participation in daily duty rota.
Flexibility of working pattern to meet the needs of service users.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Monday 7 Oct 2024
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