An opportunity has arisen for a mental health practitioner skilled and experienced with children, young people and families to take on the role of Band 7 CAMHS Primary Mental Health Specialist located in the Local Authority South Bristol Social Care Team.
As a fully registered CAMHS Specialist in this team you will show excellent clinical, therapeutic, and communication skills with the Family Help team. You will facilitate and provide mental health assessments of children and young people open to the team and you will lead multi agency meetings and consultations with frontline Family Help staff. You will engage in direct therapeutic work with children and carers/parents and will self-manage a caseload. You will design and deliver presentations and training events for other professionals and carers/parents as required.
If you are keen to improve the outcomes for children and families who are participating in support from our Local Authority South Bristol Social Care team and you meet the application criteria, we look forward to receiving your application.
Assess the mental health, emotional and psychological needs of children and young people who are involved with the Family Help team.
Provide consultation and training to Family Help team.
To be a link and a bridge between CAMHS and Family Help team.
Providing referral guidance, signposting and consultation.
Providing mental health training to the Family Help team.
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Assess mental health need and risks (for example self-harm and serious mental illness) in children and young people and to develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions (including brief interventions).
Offer individual and family therapeutic work, with children, young people and their families.
Provide consultation in multi-agency settings.
Deliver training to professionals/parent/careers.
Work independently and manage own caseload.
Work in multi settings e.g. CAMHS, Social Care, schools.
Contribute to wider CAMHS referral and triage processes.
Other Duties
The postholder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description for the post. The particular duties and responsibilities attached to posts may vary from time to time without
changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibilities entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and would not of themselves justify the re-evaluation of a post. In cases, however, where a permanent and substantial change in the duties and responsibilities of a post occurs, consistent with a higher level of responsibility, then the post would be eligible for re-evaluation.
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