Senior CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

NHS
Full Time
Huddersfield
46148.00 - 52809.00 a year
Posted 1 weeks ago

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Job Description

Job summary

37.5 hours per week

Calderdale and Kirklees Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has an exciting opportunity to recruit to the Eating Disorder team.

The successful candidate will be a part of the pathway and will support the team in developing and driving this intervention within the Eating Disorders service. This will include supporting service development based on best practice guidelines and existing research and evidence. Further requirements can be found within the person specification and job description. You will deliver high quality interventions following care planning, treatment and regular reviews (CPA) from the qualified practitioners in your team for children and young people who meet the criteria of the pathway.

Many eating disorders, such as Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, are well-known even among non-medical professionals. This is largely thanks to ongoing media attention and education efforts, however we need to ensure we engage effectively with the family to better support young people.

By identifying children and young people earlier and providing the right support, we can work with families to provide a dedicated treatment plan to be able to, prevent escalation and reduce long term difficulties and decrease the pressures in the ED and acute services.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone highly motivated and enthusiastic who has an interest and understanding of Eating Disorders. The service welcome professionals to join our existing multi disciplinary team. If you are unsure if you would be able to apply please contact to discuss further.

Support is offered both from the team and wider service with regular team meetings, service wide development mornings, team development mornings, regular clinical and managerial supervision and peer support/supervision.

The service supports professional development. Calderdale and Kirklees CAMHS also offers the opportunity to work as part of a community, to build links within and across teams and other services within the trust. We take pride in working together to maintain a supportive and friendly workplace that enables our staff to thrive and influence positive change to the lives of the young people and families who have the support of our service.

Calderdale and Kirklees CAMHS has an existing and well-established Eating Disorder Team that the successful candidate would join, with the support of the Team Manager and Lead Clinicians. You will also link closely with colleagues from other teams where appropriate.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

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 and 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

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 emphatic 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.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

Person Specification

Physical Attributes

Essential

Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).