Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Coventry and Warwickshire - Rise Specialist Mental Health Service for Children and Young People
Band 7 Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
Full time post with North Warwickshire Team (Nuneaton & Rugby).
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join our North Warwickshire Specialist Mental Health Team working with the specialist CAMHS service.
Substantial knowledge and understanding in Young People's Mental Health is essential and additional CAMHS experience would be desirable. You will hold a caseload of young people with complex mental health needs and will take responsibility for providing evidence-based assessments and therapeutic treatment for these individuals.
We as a service are looking for professional staff to have proven skills, knowledge, passion and expertise in working with Children and Young People. If you have skills in Mental Health assessments and treatment, groups, CBT, DDP, EMDR, an interest in Neurodevelopment, Children in Care, Child and Family Holistic assessments and other vulnerable groups then this vacancy will apply to yourself.
About us
You will have a proven ability to liaise with and work in collaboration with other relevant agencies according to the needs of the young person. This exciting post is a real opportunity to demonstrate multi-agency working holding the needs of the child and young people at the centre working across the Specialist MH Teams.
As a senior practitioner you will within your role have responsibility for providing both direct and non-direct work to support the work across Rise - Specialist MH Team.
As a service working with Children and Young People, we welcome people to apply who have a clear passion to want to make a difference, are motivated and enthused with the core belief of prevention and resilience. We are a service that is known for being creative and responsive to the needs of our Children and Young People who no matter what level of need to support their emotional wellbeing.
In our partnership with CW Mind, we will be changing culture and influencing the system to see emotional wellbeing and mental health as everyone's business. This will be bringing together expertise from all areas, to ensure that resource is placed solely on the child without tiers or boundaries.
We are part of the CYP IAPT initiative and work in partnership with Reading University. Embedded in our model are pathways that are built upon evidence-based practice and ensure a supportive supervision structure that allows for effective care delivery as well as the development of staff skills and knowledge.
Job responsibilities
The post would be suitable for professionals with mental health related training, such as nursing, occupational therapy, social work etc.
Please see Job description for more details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualified allied health professional, such as Social Worker, Nurse, Occupational Therapist. Registered with the appropriate body eg. NMC, HCPC, SW England, UKCP
Experience
* Significant experience as a clinician in Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
* Experience of collaborative multidisciplinary and multi-agency work
Other
* Ability to travel independently in a timely manner
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
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