CAMHS Youth Justice Service Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for a flexible and dynamic staff member to join our team to be the CAMHS representative within the Youth Offending Team provision. The role will consist of supporting the YOT team around MH needs, providing consultation to the network and conducting assessments and intervention where required. The post will sit within the CAMHS Specialist Trauma and Relational Therapies team and be a valuable member of the SpCAMHS MDT. The post holder will have experience in conducting MH assessments, be confident in working with partners and engaging with young people. They should also be willing to learn additional skills to fulfil the demands of the role. The post holder will be given specialist supervision and be trained in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy to at least Level 2.

The CAMHS team is a strong and supportive team and has excellent structures to offer regular supervision and support. This is a great opportunity to join our team in Solent NHS Trust Children & Families Service line to support in the delivery of high-quality children's mental health services. We are looking for exceptional individuals with the right attitude, skills and knowledge who share our passion to deliver the best quality care experience for children and their families.

DDP training will be available to the successful candidate.

Main duties of the job

The post holder would offer a mental health perspective to the multi-agency youth justice service through assessment and treatment, joint work, and participation in team meetings, whilst being supported by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health service.

The post requires the holder as a member of a multi-disciplinary agency team to maintain a caseload and provide direct clinical work that demonstrates a high level of specialist skill in treating the client system, where families have multi-complex and often long-standing difficulties. All children and young people are seen in the context of their family or support network, requiring a wide range of interventions for straightforward mental health problems to highly complex systemic areas.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.