North Tyneside CAMHS are seeking a highly motivated and dynamic individuals with a keenness and ability to integrate their current skills and apply them in the role of CAMHS Practitioner. The post-holder will be joining a supportive and forward-thinking team who pride themselves on their commitment to the continual development and improvement of patient care.
Important qualities are good communication skills, working co-operatively and thinking creatively.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing assessments, formulation and evidence based interventions to children, young people and their families, who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
They will be liaising and providing advice, information and consultation to colleagues and other agencies as well as undertaking service governance activity, including audit as appropriate.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
To play a key role in the provision of an highly specialist service to Children, Young People and their families accessing North Tyneside Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. To offer community based and outpatient mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and their families.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Responsible for the assessment and interpretation mental health needs of children, adolescents and their families in conjunction with other multi disciplinary team members.
To participate in the assessment of children and young people involved in deliberate self harm.
Responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic interventions in consultation with other multi disciplinary team members.
To carry and maintain personal key worker and joint caseworker responsibilities for children and young people Working within multidisciplinary and departmental supervision systems.
To participate in supervision systems, which currently operate within CAMHS, keeping your line manager informed of all matters directly related to the post holders area of responsibility and accountability.
To provide specialist advice to children, young people their families and staff external to the department on the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental illness.
To participate in the establishment, organisation, delivery and evaluation of clinics within the department alongside members of the Multi Disciplinary Team.
To record and interpret clients physical observations when indicated in conjunction with members of the multidisciplinary team.
Ensure all children and families receive a high quality, effective service, offering a broad range of interventions.
Risk Management - to deliver the quality standards and targets outlined in the Trust’s Risk Management Strategy and local operational policies.
Undertake liaison with other agencies to ensure that child/young persons needs are managed at right level of service provision based on clinical need.
This advert closes on Monday 23 Dec 2024
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