CAMHS Practitioner

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for a Children’s and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Practitioner to work within North Tyneside, predominantly into the multidisciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment team.
The duties of the post will include contributing to specialist assessment to help those around the child make sense of their difficulties (all aspects of assessment, including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, learning, systemic factors, the role of trauma). We are looking for someone with an interest and experience in neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD, ASC and mental health.
Essential previous experience will include: working in mental health services (or equivalent) with children and their families is essential, preferably in CAMHS; experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions; and specifically, assessment within a diagnostic context of such conditions.

To play a key role in the provision of an highly specialist service to Children, Young People and their families accessing North Tyneside Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. To offer community based and out patient mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and their families.
Working into the neurodevelopmental specialty within CAMHS although may be required to work across locality CAMHS Teams as required.
Flexibility of working pattern to meet the needs of service users.
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Working across locality CAMHS Teams as required.
Working with children from birth to eighteen and their families.
Participation in daily duty rota.
Flexibility of working pattern to meet the needs of service users.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries