Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS

Job summary

Why Solent? Well why not!

Portsmouth CAMHS are a vibrant and skilled team who are looking for someone who will bring their passion and dedication to working in Children and Adolescents Mental Health. We are one of the only CAMHS services that are fully accredited with the QNCC (Quality Network for Community CAMHS) in the country. Now you're interested!

Working with a diverse population, we provide a specialist mental health service to children aged 0-18 with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs along with their families to improve their day to day lives. As a multi-agency team, we have strong relationships within the region to ensure our young people receive the right care, by the right professional, at the right time.

You could be a registered nurse, social worker or occupational therapist with experience of working with children and their families. No experience? No problem! We can offer you an extensive training period to ensure you have the skills to do the role comfortably. Ultimately, we just want you to be you; a good communicator, a great listener and a non-judgemental individual to allow the relationships to build with our young people and support them through their challenges.

We are looking to recruit to a band 6 role, however we would also consider a band 5 development opportunity for someone who needs the time and support to grow into the role.

Still not sure? Pop us a message and come and meet the team so we can tell you just why we love working here!

Main duties of the job

* To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for assessments, formulation of systemic, evidenced based treatment, reviews and discharge summaries and be accountable for professional actions and policies.

* To be responsible for delivering specialist child and adolescent intervention in a way that is integrated with the work of other disciplines with in the team and wider Children and Family Service.

* To be responsible where appropriate to liaise closely and integrate the work of specialist CAMHS with the work of other agencies.

* To provide guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to individual programmes of care.

* To attend Core Group meetings and Team Around the Child meetings and other relevant meetings as required.

* To ensure children, young people and their carers/significant others are included in planning, implementation and evaluation of care.

* To ensure care is delivered in a person-centred manner ensuring the gender, ethnic cultural and spiritual needs of service users inform practice.

* To act in accordance with legal requirements contained within the Mental Health Act 1983, the Children's Act 1994 and other legislation

* To participate in regular supervision systems and the Individual Appraisal Review and Continuing Professional Development.

* To participate in the Single Point of Access (SPA) rota as required

* To offer and support group work as required

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.