CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

32 hours per week - Band 6Mental Health Practitioner

Are you looking for a newchallenge and rewarding career in Children and Young peoples Mental HealthServices within an evolvingteam? CAMHSCrisis and Home Treatment Pathwayare looking for resilient, innovative, and motivated individuals who are passionate aboutimproving the lives and mental health of our young people.

Our pathway provides crisis support and intensive home treatment to youngpeople who are experiencing mental health crisis and emotional distress. Theservice can be fast paced, and the ideal applicant will be extremely organisedand self-motivated to provide high quality assessment and formulation for theyoung people within the service. We provide evidence-based assessments andinterventions for young people keeping with the principles of the iTHRIVEmodel. The team provide a creative, trauma informed and pro-active approach in engaging young people andtheir families. The individual will be able to work independently but also workwell in a team.

Working hours will be to cover a7 day a week service including bank holidays

Main duties of the job Crisis Community

To respond to CYP who present in crisis within thecommunity that have been referred in. Clinicians will complete a psychosocialassessment, risk management and signpost.

Home Treatment

The team offer CYP an intense community approach to avoidhospital admission and provides step down support when discharged from a mentalhealth inpatient unit.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

About us Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning socialenterprise delivering integrated health and social care services acrossPlymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts ofDevon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sportscentres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values,kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, andcollaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, whileempowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, inshaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the righttime and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people leadhealthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, trainingpathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the CareCertificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorshipprograms ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from allsections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mentalhealth, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during theapplication process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

Job responsibilities 1a

To improvechildren and young peoples mental health through the delivery of anintegrated and coordinated system of community based mental health care tochildren, young people, and their families, providing safe, culturallycompetent, effective, cost efficient, timely and accessible services that arein accordance with national and local priorities and are responsive to theneeds and views of local children, young people, and their families.

2a

To supportthe delivery of consultation, liaison, and training to staff inUniversal/targeted/specialist Services. To also provide clinical input to theteam, delivering practice within best evidence and to the highest possiblestandard. The post sits within a multi-agency locality-based team within thecity offering mental health assessment and treatment interventions in linewith NICE Guidelines.

3a

Tocontribute to a positive working environment and open learning culture, whichsupports high morale and commitment within the Community Mental Health Teampromoting wellbeing, personal development, and continuous improvement in thestandards of business activities and professional practice.

4a.

To work with children/youngpeople/families and professionals working with them, to reduce the stigmaassociated with mental health and contribute to the embedding of a positivemessage about maintaining good mental health.

5a

The MentalHealth Practitioners (MHP) will be supported to develop the ability toprovide specialist and autonomous, culturally competent mental healthassessment, formulation of and implementation of specific care plans andreview for children and young people and their families/carers following arequest for involvement. The MHP willhave skills that enable them to communicate that assessment in writing to thereferrer and the General Practitioner. This information may also be requiredto be copied to any other relevant parties involved in the young personscare, with the young persons permission where appropriate.

6a

All Mental Health Practitioners (MHP)must use an evidence-based approach to develop and implement a specialist programof intervention to a defined caseload of children and young people. These interventions will be based on aclear theoretical framework and will take full account of the child or youngpersons developmental needs, gender, ethnicity, religion, race, ability, andsexual orientation. The MHP will need to develop their skills and knowledgeenabling them to draw on a range of therapeutic interventions, for exampledifferent psychotherapeutic models, non- verbal therapeutic approaches andother techniques adapted for use with children and young people. They will also need to develop an extensiveknowledge of the full range of children and family services across allagencies.

7a

Direct intervention by the MHP is undertaken according to thecompetencies of individuals. As a Band 6 clinician the expectation will bethat the clinician takes a lead role in the delivery of the service andsupervise the junior members of the team.It will be evidence based and informed by a clear theoreticalframework. The MHP will describe theplanned care within a written care plan, review, and update, which has beensigned by the child/young person and/or parent/carer.

8a

The MHP willdevelop the skills and knowledge enabling to choose an intervention anddeliver that from a range of therapeutic modalities including systemicpractice, cognitive behavioral therapy, solution focused therapy.

9a

The postholder will be expected to draw upon experience and knowledge gained throughtraining and practice relating to child development, child and adolescentmental health and adult mental health.

10a

The MHP willdemonstrate effective skills in the assessment and reassessment of risk andcommunicate concerns accurately in a timely fashion. This is inclusive of priority assessmentsand requires multi-agency responses to risk assessment and risk managementplans.

11a

The MHP will develop skills andknowledge enabling them to make an autonomous decision about the time ofdischarge, and agree with the child, young person, and family/carers as wellas multi-agency key partners.Communicate a summary of the work undertaken and how to sustainimprovements made and include correspondence to General Practitioner.

12a

The MHP isrequired to maintain high effective standards in the recording of clinicalobservations and actions, risk and risk management including child protectionin health records.

13a

The MHP will provide schools, and/orother community venues, with access to individual and small group therapeuticinterventions for those pupils who require it, including working withfamilies.

14a

All MHPswork with families at their homes, education, and community settings and atbase as appropriate/required by children/young people and their families.

15a

The MHP will strongly adhere toculturally competent and anti-discriminatory practice, promote equity of opportunity,and use their professional position to empower others and challenge powerimbalances where they are found to exist.

16a

The MHP willprovide consultation to staff in partner agencies and may be required tosupport junior staff in attendance at meetings/ EHAT/CP meetings.

Consultation is offered to allprofessionals to identify the nature and level of the childs mental healthneed so that an appropriate CAMHS response can be defined and actioned.

17a

Offer consultation and support toCAMHS wider system

18a

AllMHPs promote the mental health and emotional well-being of children andyoung people

19a

The MHP will play a major role in encouraging and co-coordinatingcollaboration between all agencies by attending multi-agency meetings such asmulti-agency EHAT meetings, child protection case conferences, educationreviews etc., to provide a mental health perspective.

20a

The MHP will be required to haveexcellent and effective communication skills, applicable to working both withyoung people, their families, and professional systems . click apply for full job details