Core CAMHS Practitioner

Job summary

Grantham CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) Core Team are looking for a new team member to help in providing an 'outstanding' (CQC) specialist mental health service to children, young people and their families. Are you a creative, passionate and highly motivated individual who can join us in making a difference to children, young people and their families in Lincolnshire who are experiencing mental health challenges? If so, a vacancy have arisen within the Grantham CAMHS hub for a full-time Band 5 Core Practitioner (Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist) to join our established multi-disciplinary team. We provide assessment and a range of therapeutic interventions, working alongside children, young people and their families as they learn, develop understanding and skills that establish good mental health practices.

The post is based at our main team base in Grantham but you will need to be able to travel independently throughout the County, (and occasionally further) especially Sleaford, Bourne and Stamford. You will also need to be able to contribute to our late night offer on a rota basis (Tuesday till 8:00 p.m.).

You will be supported by the Team Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead and Team and will take part in regular, high quality supervision and training so that you feel confident in your contribution to the team and children/young person's journey within CAMHS and beyond.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

• Act as Care Coordinator under the supervision of line manager.
• Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
• Empower patients and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
• Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
• Provide therapeutic interventions reflective of CYP IAPT, within relevant care pathways.
• Work within defined waiting times.
• Provide an extended hours service, as required..
• Participate in the planning and delivery of group interventions
• Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families
• To be able to travel independently and work flexibly

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.