Specialist CAMHS Practitioner - Band 7

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 experienced clinician to join our South Warwickshire Specialist Mental Health team working with the Specialist CAMHS service., You will have a proven ability to liaise with and work in collaboration with other relevant agencies according to the needs of the young person. This exciting post is a real opportunity to demonstrate multi agency working holding the needs of the child and young people at the centre working across the Specialist Mental Health teams.
As a senior practitioner you will within your role have responsibility for providing both direct and non-direct work to support the work across Rise - Specialist Mental Health team.
As a service working with Children and Young People we welcome people to apply who have a clear passion to want to make a difference, are motivated and enthused with the core belief of prevention and resilience. We are a service that is known for being creative and responsive to the needs of our Children and Young People who no matter what level of need to support their emotional wellbeing.
In our partnership with CW Mind we will be changing culture and influencing the system to see emotional wellbeing and mental health as everyone's business-bringing together expertise from all areas to ensure that resource is placed into the child without tiers or boundaries.
We are part of the CYP IAPT initiative and work in partnership with the Reading University. Embedded in our model are pathways that are built upon Evidence practice and ensure a supportive supervision structure that allows for effective care delivery as well as the development of staff skills and knowledge.

Substantial knowledge and understanding in Young people's Mental Health is essential and additional CAMHS experience would be desirable. You will hold a caseload of young people with complex mental health needs and will take responsibility for providing evidence based assessments and therapeutic treatment for these individuals.
We as a service are looking for professional staff to have proven skills, knowledge, passion and expertise in working with Children and young People. If you have skills in Mental Health assessments and treatment, groups, CBT, DDP, EMDR, an interest in Neurodevelopment, Children in Care, Child and Family Holistic assessments and other vulnerable groups then this vacancy will apply to yourself.
Your time will be split between holding a clinical case load, and as a Band 7 there will be a leadership aspect to your role, offering supervision and supporting the Team Leader.

NHS AfC: Band 7
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services