CAMHS Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

This role offers you the chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such includes both clinical and supervisory duties. The main focus is to:

• Lead on and directly providing comprehensive assessment, risk management and interventions for children and young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties.
• Offer one to one and group interventions
• Offer Clinical Supervision to team members including Band 4 Education Mental Health Practitioner trainees
• Work with school staff and cultures to develop school environments that are more conducive to supporting better emotional health and wellbeing.
• Work with parents/carers to raise awareness of the mental and emotional wellbeing needs of children and young people and strategies to protect and promote these.

If you are interested in working with schools and want to help shape new models of evidence-based support for children and young people, this job could be for you!

We are looking for a CAMHS Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with CBT skills and training to join a highly-regarded MHST in Hounslow. It is essential you hold a relevant clinical qualification and have previous experience of working in a CAMHS team. The role involves carrying out assessments and holding your own caseload for individual and group interventions; training and consulting to education colleagues, and support for parents/carers.

You will be supported to maintain your professional registration and will have access to support/supervision from colleagues from within your discipline. Experience of working in education would be a bonus. The post holders will offer supervision to Band 4 Trainee Education Wellbeing Practitioners and successful candidates will be supported to attend the CYP IAPT PG Cert training in supervising low intensity interventions where necessary.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation. Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs.

The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m. The Trust is rated as 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'. The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board.

The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.