CAMHS Connect Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 October 2025 |
| Location: | Northampton, NN1 3EB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9270-25-0685 |
Summary
To work within the designated Team, according to the Team practices, ethos and responsibilities.To provide specialist psychological assessment of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and interrogation of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interview with clients, family members and others involved in the child/young persons careTo implement appropriate psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining formulations drawing up on different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.To evaluate and make decisions regarding treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical developmental processes, for example Trauma that have shaped the individual.To utilise analytical skills for assessing and interpreting complex facts. ie. suicide risk/child protection, and to take appropriate action, following the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.To plan and organise a broad range of psychotherapeutic activities or programmes, some of which are on-going, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies.To support the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic care plans by other team members, and share clinical responsibility for their delivery.To make judgements on an individual basis involving highly sensitive and complex information and/or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and the comparison of a range of options, and to provide support to other team members regarding their clinical decision making and risk assessment.To carry a complex case load, using advanced clinical skills.To monitor outcomes using accepted outcome measures, and ensure these outcomes are fed back to children/young people and their families/carers appropriately.Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adults health procedure and local guidelines.To support and foster a workforce that works within Integrated Specialist Pathways, through a treatment package, structured but supportive approach.This post may require lengthy periods of sitting at a desk, or in consultation with young people and their families.This post requires the ability to drive and access to a vehicle.This post requires standard keyboard skills.This post has frequent requirement for periods of prolonged concentration, particularly when completing clinical care plans, risk assessments and treatment outcome letters and reports.This post will involve frequent exposure to children/young people who may have experienced significant abuse or trauma.This post includes working in a variety of settings, and may include exposure to verbal, or even occasional physical aggression.