Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

To improve children and young people’s timely access to CAMHS as part of a newly developed service:
Working within the i-Thrive framework
Working within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
Holding a caseload of young people from the point of triage to assessment offering evidence-based intervention and through to discharge
Working with and supporting the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.
Working within Getting Advice (the CAMHS front door) and across defined locality teams
Contributing on a rota basis to CAMHS Triage and Getting Advice within Bristol and South Glos and North Somerset.
Working with children, young people and families in an accessible/flexible approach using an outreach model
We would welcome applicants who have recently completed the PGDip in Psychological therapies or CAPS training.
The team are a new part of the CAMHS service helping to transform access for young people. They are a dynamic team who are passionate about young people’s mental health and working across CAMHS and our partner agencies. The team are committed to continuous staff development and CPD, including reflective space and have a strong focus on staff wellbeing. If you wish to be part of developing this team and are passionate about young people’s mental health please get in touch.
To carry out assessments of a child or young person’s mental health needs and associated risk
To develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
To provide a comprehensive formulation of needs and appropriate onwards signposting
To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend CAMHS case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
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.
To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.
To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
To inform and influence child mental health strategy including the development of joint agency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships.
To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young people’s mental health.
To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
When appropriate within the role to engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with line manager.
As required, contribute to the triage of CAMHS referrals and other tasks within Getting Advice such as providing advice to families/carers and professionals via the Advice Line
To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their professional body.
To comply with any necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentialit

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