Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Are you dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people?

Do you thrive in environments where you can help to deliver impactful, short-term interventions?

We're looking for an enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS), embedded within the Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), based in Swindon.

We work closely alongside and liaise with the Getting More Help Teams on supporting children, young people (CYP) and their families experiencing complex mental health needs. Our CYP might be at risk of inpatient hospital admission or transitioning out of inpatient care; our role is to provide intensive, short-term support within the community. No two days are the same, with plenty of variety in this role and lots of opportunities for learning.

In CAHTS, we're committed to delivering a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children, young people and their families who are experiencing additional mental health needs.

Children and young people within our service are often experiencing an increased level of mental health needs, including exhibiting increased risk behaviours. Whilst this can sometimes feel daunting, we have a strong multi-disciplinary leadership team who are responsive to the needs of the team.

• Support CYP and their families with psycho-social education
• Provide practical support, drawing upon evidence-based interventions
• Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children's Social Care, Education and many more
• Be responsible for initial assessments and delivery of time-limited, short-term interventions to address emotional and mental health needs of young people in crisis, with the aim of reducing longer-term mental health problems

We'll need you to participate in a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday-Sunday and Bank Holidays.

You will also participate in covering the service's 24 hour on-call service on a rota basis.

The role will involve offering emotional support to adolescents and/or their parents who are in mental health crisis or are being supported to leave psychiatric inpatient care.

We can offer you a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.

If you have any questions about the role or the team, and you'd like to find out more, please contact Clare Fry on  or .

• RMN/Social Worker/OT/other relevant professional qualification
• Registered to practice in the UK
• Knowledge of DBT and CBT

• Caseload management / complex conditions & cases
• Experience of care coordination / lead professional
• Evidence based, reflective practice & clinical reasoning skills in assessment & treatment
• Experience of working with children and/or young people with mental health difficulties
• Experience of being a care co-ordinator or managing a case load

• Effective communicator with patients, carers & staff
• Organisational skills for own & others workload

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours