Band 7 Senior Practitioner - CAMHS Intensive Outeach Team

This senior practitioner position is for the Hospital Assessment Team.

Through leadership and supervision, to co-ordinate the assessment and care interventions for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties within a CAPA CAMH service framework/ caseload. This aims to help individual staff to develop increasing skill and confidence with a wide range of health social care and wellbeing needs, in setting agreed and realistic priorities with the children, young people and families we offer a service to.

To contribute to the development of a culture where the personal and positive aspirations of service users are the primary focus of the individualised care plan, while developing and maintaining individual skills in delivering a range of therapeutic interventions. This must beachieved whilst respecting the dimensions of personal choice, diversity and culture and the benefits which these bring to the therapeutic relationship., Provision of rapid access to specialist CAMHS advice and support and to enable referrers to deal more effectively with a range of mental health problems.

Management of high risk young people in the community through intensive support.

Increased detection of mental health problems/needs with improved care, treatment andpromotion of improved understanding of and confidence in the delivery of mental health care and collaboration with all agencies involved in the care of young people and families.

Provision of targeted formal and informal learning opportunities for all staff within the primary care teams to develop their knowledge and capabilities within the mental health component of holistic care.

Provision of information sign-posting and support for young people and families.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP.