CAMHS Practitioner for Children in Care Team

We are excited to offer an opportunity to someone who is passionate and skilled with working with children and young people in care that have experienced significant trauma and have needs pertaining to their attachment, to join our developing Children in Care team at Wolverhampton CAMHS., Your role in the Children in Care team will be:

To provide a specialist clinical service for Looked after Children, young people and their carers..

To provide advice and consultation to colleagues from other agencies and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within your professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

To participate in audit, policy and service development within the specialist area of the Children and Young People in Care team .

To be an important member of the Looked after Children team whose therapeutic approach integrates attachment, systemic, cognitive and psychoanalytical traditions and practice.

The post is a band 6 post and is open to any professional who has a qualification and experience in a mental health related field such as a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Creative Therapist etc.

You will need to be appropriately qualified and registered with your professional body i.e. RCN, HCPC, SWE, BABCP or an equivalent body, and be adhering to the relevant code of ethics and practice.

We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidence based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment. The team is embedded within the Specialist CAMHS team which is one of four CAMHS teams in the Trust. Each CAMHS team is a large, dynamic and successful service comprising of a broad spectrum of disciplines and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. Each of the four teams also has a specialist Children in Care Team.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an organisation that cares for their staff. There are various offers to encourage staff to look after their emotional wellbeing and mental health.

There is a monthly CPD training event offered to all CAMHS practitioners and an opportunity to attend case discussions and reflective practice. CPD and training is recognised as an important part of professional development and this is considered in a yearly Performance Development Conversation.