Specialist Practitioner (CAMHS Children in Care)
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 July 2025 |
| Location: | Grimsby, DN34 4GB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9816-500-1 |
Summary
To provide specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions for young people who are looked after by the local authority, and to care leavers, including children and young people living in residential childrens homes and foster placements. To contribute to complex decision making around the childs emotional wellbeing and mental health needs within their placement. To provide regular consultations to the team of professionals around the child to ensure the childs psychological needs are well understood and to support others in meeting the childs needs. To provide psychological support to children and families who are experiencing (or have experienced) serious emotional trauma, bereavement, relationship difficulties or placement disruption, and also to provide support to parents, carers and staff working with such clients. To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to other agencies/ professionals such as local authority social workers. To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting looked after children and care leavers. To provide written summaries and reports to the multidisciplinary team around the child following assessment and consultation. To provide ad-hoc support and advice to local authority staff and carers. Be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated. To contribute to service development work. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to less experienced staff. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To provide general advice to other professionals on risk assessment and management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care.