Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Children's Crisis Service

Job overview

Are you passionate about improving the lives of vulnerable young people with mental health needs?Are you dynamic, innovative and have a desire to be part of creative, supportive, and high quality mental health service?

Child and Family Health Devon CAMHS crisis services has undergone a vital expansion, transforming our urgent care services for children and young people who experience mental health crisis across Devon.

We are seeking Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join our existing award winning team in North Devon. We are focused on ensuring children and young people get the right help, when they need it the most. You will have a shared commitment to learning and development, we look forward to you incorporating your own CAMHS clinical experience into practice, but we are also committed to enhancing this, with training opportunities to support our care delivery in AMBIT and DBT, to name but a few.

Main duties of the job

The team currently offer urgent assessments in hospital, or in the community, with a drive to ensure there is no health without mental health. We are proud to offer intensive support at home, with the people young people care about around them, actively working with our partners preventing children and young people being admitted into hospital. We operate shifts between 9am-10pm, 7 days per week, on a rota basis, so that our service is accessible and flexible.

The teams are based across Devon, which is beautiful and diverse, from quaint harbour villages, to the hustle and bustle of vibrant towns, within this amazing landscape, we are very much part of the wider CAMHS and child and family health service, so that children and young people are central to their care and recovery and have all their holistic needs met.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and evidence-based treatment for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties and their parents/carers. Collaborative working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role.

The post holder will contribute to the multi-disciplinary approach of the team, providing integrated healthcare for children across Children and Family Health Devon. Bringing professional expertise, skills and knowledge to multi-disciplinary teamwork, the post holder will work with, and offer supervision/consultation/advice to others. With a focus on providing high quality, safe and compassionate care to children/young people the post holder will engage in team and service development including participating in audit, evaluation and review.

Please refer to the job description attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment and evidence-based treatment for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties and their parents/carers. Collaborative working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role.

The post holder will contribute to the multi-disciplinary approach of the team, providing integrated healthcare for children across Children and Family Health Devon. Bringing professional expertise, skills and knowledge to multi-disciplinary teamwork, the post holder will work with, and offer supervision/consultation/advice to others. With a focus on providing high quality, safe and compassionate care to children/young people the post holder will engage in team and service development including participating in audit, evaluation and review.