Mental Health Practitioner

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.

Hounslow was one of the first sites to benefit from significant investment to develop a trailblazer MHST, as outlined in the Young People's Mental Health Green Paper 2016. Hundreds of children and young people have now accessed guided self-help; awareness raising and early intervention support, with encouraging feedback and improved clinical outcomes.

West London NHS Trust is committed to eliminating discrimination for all groups and achieving equality of opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief and sexuality. We aim to create a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve at all levels of seniority within the Trust. We are therefore particularly interested in receiving applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds.
All new employees are provided with a comprehensive induction at Trust and Team level, the necessary equipment and training to meet the job requirement.
For further info: https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk/work-for-us