CAMHS Practitioner

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £37,563 (Level one) rising to £40,444 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location: Multiple Nottingham City Locations, predominantly Loxley House and Bulwell Riverside.

We've got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you've been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham.

So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

We are looking for a compassionate, skilled and resilient CAMHS Practitioner to join our Citywide Targeted CAMHS Team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children, young people and families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. Working within a trauma-informed and relationship-based framework, you will support children and young people to understand their experiences, build resilience and achieve positive outcomes.

As part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, you will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, develop collaborative formulations and deliver short term, evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families. While many referrals present with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, practitioners must also be confident in working with complexity, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, emotional dysregulation, safeguarding concerns and contextual risks.

The successful candidate will be able to assess, manage and communicate risk effectively whilst maintaining a child-centred, compassionate and strengths-based approach.

The role involves providing individual, family and group interventions, contributing to the CAMHS Single Point of Access, and working closely with partners across education, health, social care and the voluntary sector to ensure children receive the right support at the right time. You will play an important role in safeguarding children and promoting their emotional wellbeing through effective multi-agency collaboration and care planning.

Joining our team means becoming part of a service committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based and trauma-informed mental health care and Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation principles. We offer a supportive working environment, regular clinical and management supervision, opportunities for professional development and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

Qualifications

• A relevant professional qualification in Social Work, Nursing, Teaching or a related discipline at Degree level or above, supported by substantial post-qualification experience in the assessment and treatment of children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties.
• Specialist training, accreditation or qualification in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention, with the ability to integrate therapeutic knowledge into assessment, formulation and intervention planning for children, young people and families presenting with a range of mental health needs and complexities
• Demonstrable experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families across a diverse range of mental health presentations and levels of complexity, utilising assessment and formulation to inform intervention planning and outcomes.
• Extensive experience of assessing and managing significant clinical and safeguarding risk, including self-harm, suicidality, child protection concerns and environmental adversity, whilst working effectively within complex multi-agency systems and contributing to shared decision-making regarding care and risk management.
• Advanced knowledge of child and adolescent mental health presentations, including complexity arising from trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodiversity, self-harm, suicidality and emotional…