CAMHS Practitioner

To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures. To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy. To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to the multi-agency network. To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources. To gate keep all referrals to inpatient services to test their suitability for home treatment as an alternative to admission. To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed. To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives