CAMHS Band 6-7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	30 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	£38,682.00 i £54,710.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£38682.00 - £54710.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	13 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	Castleford, WF10 5HW
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9378-W1335

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For full job description, please see attached supporting documents. Band 7 JOB SUMMARY This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments. To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and their families. To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies/professionals. To provider supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed for the team leader. To promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people KEY RESULT AREAS: CLINICAL To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility in accordance with the Trust Policies and procedures. The post-holder will have highly developed skills in assessing the needs of children and their carers based on the analysis of highly complex facts and situations. Interventions will be planned based on the assessment information and interpretation of this. The clinical assessment will include gathering appropriate historical information from the child and family, allied to clinical observation of family relationships and mental state of the child and other family members, and obtaining relevant information from other agencies. Offering highly specialist expertise in child and adolescent mental health, ensuring clear documentation in all appropriate case notes and sharing assessments and information with the family and all relevant professionals. To undertake highly specialist initial assessments of young people following acts of serious self-harm and attempted suicide in line with evidence based practice. To undertake highly specialised risk assessments following referral for presentations requiring urgent mental health or psychiatric assessment and plan relevant interventions. To implement intensive interventions with young people and their families, as relevant to the post-holders main clinical role, i.e. group and individual work, systemic family interventions. This will include analysis, interpretation and evaluation to reformulate plans of care. The post-holder will provide therapeutic care to emotionally demanding clients in highly emotive situations. The post-holder will develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with children and carers. This will include cases of high complexity which require more specialised levels of assessment and therapeutic skills. As part of multi-disciplinary team, the Senior Mental Health Practitioner will deliver and devise complex packages of care. Provide individual and family review/follow-up sessions to children, young people or their carers. To take a lead role in setting guidelines and standards that will ensure all young persons identified with complex problems are discharged from Specialist CAMHS with an appropriate package of care from universal services. The post-holder will have skills to communicate highly complex information regarding personal psycho-social problems in an empathic and supportive way using the highest level of interpersonal skills in situations which can be highly emotional and sometimes antagonistic. Service users and families may have difficulty or be reluctant to understand what is communicated to them. Communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information utilising highly developed interpersonal skills. Take into account issues of confidentiality and the consent of Adults and Young People. Considering and assessing a childs maturity to consent. To work with children, young people (0-18) and their families, liaising with external agencies, e.g. Education, Social Services and Paediatric Services. Presenting problems are frequently complex and require that sophisticated packages of care are negotiated and delivered. To actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities and wishes of the individuals concerned. To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work. To deputise for the team leader in his/her absence. Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations. Band 6 JOB SUMMARY The post-holder will: 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. To 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. KEY RESULT AREAS: To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system. 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. To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work. To be committed to a quality approach for patient care. The post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues. To manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need. To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework. 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. To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision. To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners. 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. To use a range of Information Technology systems (including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical incidents are reported. To comply with both clinical and corporate governance frameworks. To support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service improvement and redesign. To actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities and wishes of the individuals concerned. To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous improvement and learning. Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations. To maintain relevant professional registration. To identify and communicate any concerns through the relevant management processes. To demonstrate continued practice development and engage in annual appraisal. 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