Band 7 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS2 8HR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9342-25-0576 |
Summary
Clinical Responsibilities To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge. To carry out specialist urgent assessments of a young persons mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments. To work collaborative with young people, carers and the wider system to develop safety plans to reduce risk and enable young people to access support in the community. To hold an anti-oppressive approach at the heart of your practice and challenge oppressive and/ or discriminatory issues. To work with children, young people and their families promoting opportunities for their engagement and involvement in formulations, care plans and evaluation of the service they receive. To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families. When appropriate, engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with CAMH services manager. To develop effective liaisons with referrers, and those contributing to referrals to CAMHS and to guide referrers to appropriate resources for children and young people with mental health needs To attend CAMHS meetings and case discussions as appropriate To practice within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the Safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004) and local guidelines. To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences. To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate. To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their professional body. To comply with any necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality. To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings. To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the childs home. To be IT literate. Professional Responsibilities To lead and provide clinical supervision to identified professionals and trainees/ students where indicated To participate in clinical and management supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively. To keep records and to provide clinical reports on interventions and outcomes. To develop and sustain links and working relationships with the different community based CAMH teams. To work within relevant legal and professional frameworks such as The Children Act and Professional Body guidelines. To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing NHS Trust policies. To ensure that, as far as possible, practice is evidence based, keeping informed of current practice by undertaking training as appropriate and as required by professional guidelines (e.g. NMC training requirements or Primary Mental Health Work standards and training). To explore, research and develop further innovative ways to promote positive mental health Research and Development To inform and influence child system-wide mental health practice including the development of joint agency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young peoples mental health. To participate in obtaining service users views and to involve service users in the design and delivery of accessible mental health provision in the community To participate in audit, evaluation, teaching and research as agreed with line manager.