CAMHS Primary Practitioner

As an autonomous practitioner you will be responsible for holding a caseload of children and young people, providing holistic assessments including risk assessment and planning whilst also contributing to the delivery of the short-term individualised treatment programmes.

Within the role you will also work within CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) being responsible for supporting families and professionals through providing specialist consultation on the phone. You will be involved in the assessment of referrals into the service and deciding the appropriate treatment approach for each referral.

You would be expected to offer support and supervision to identified members of the team.

As a team we encourage Practitioners to develop specialist interests to work closely with partnership agencies.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

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Are you passionate about helping people understand mental health and learning skills to cope? Are you good at inspiring and up-skilling families and professionals to understand the mental health concerns young people face?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident Primary Practitioner with appropriate experience and skills to join our CAMHS team.

Your work will be the front line of CAMHS and therefore excellent communication, engagement and de-escalation skills are essential. A commitment to improving service delivery and developing new ways of supporting evidence-based practice. As a member of the team, you will also contribute to the wider aims of the service through participation in service development/research.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.