* Band: 6 CYPMH Practitioner
* Full Time: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
* Location: Chester
* Team: CYP 0-18 West Cheshire
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Consult with young people and their parents/carers by telephone or face to face.
2. Undertake an initial comprehensive CYPMHS mental health assessment of new referrals, gathering relevant information from child, parents/carers, and other agencies.
3. Communicate and engage with children and young people of various ages, language, and developmental abilities.
4. Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate programmes of therapeutic care for young people suffering from complex mental health difficulties, including acute or severe & enduring mental illness and enduring pervasive developmental disorders.
5. Undertake care planning and subsequent reviews in collaboration with a young person, their parents/carer, and as necessary, other team members.
6. Complete self-injury assessments of young people and formulate a therapeutic risk management plan, effectively communicating this plan to a wide audience.
7. Work as a member of the emergency/duty rota, being initially responsible for activating a priority clinical response where necessary.
8. Undertake the screening of routine and urgent referrals, offering frontline clinical intervention when necessary, providing a clinical formulation and risk management plan.
9. Collaborate with young people and their parents/carers regarding care planning and the management of risk.
10. Hold case management responsibilities for a defined caseload of young people with complex severe & enduring mental health needs.
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