Mental Health Practitioner

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

1

To support the

ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.

2

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.

3

To apply a sound

knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.

4

To be committed

to a quality approach for patient care.

5

The

post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained

effort in assessment of complex family issues.

6

To

manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual

need.

7

To operate within the clinical and case management

supervision framework.

8

• 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.

9

To participate in the development, audit and

review of this extension to existing service provision.

10

To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow

specialist CAMHS practitioners.

11

• 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.

12

To use a range of Information Technology systems

(including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept

securely and confidentially

13

To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme

for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical

incidents are reported.

14

To comply with both clinical and corporate governance

frameworks.

15

• 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.

16

To actively promote user/carer involvement in all

aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities

and wishes of the individuals concerned.

17

To work in an innovative and

child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous

improvement and learning.

18

Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of

aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations.

19

• To maintain relevant professional registration
• 20
• To identify and communicate any concerns through the
• relevant management processes.

21

To demonstrate continued practice development and

engage in annual appraisal.

For full job description, please see attached supporting

documents.

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