CYPMHS Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent Band 7 CAMHS Practitioner within our East CYPMHS Service. We are an enthusiastic and supportive team, motivated to work collaboratively with young people and their families experiencing moderate to severe mental health needs across East Hertfordshire.,

• To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment & consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
• To work as a member of the MDT providing high quality mental health services to children and young people.
• To work sensitively and appropriately for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties.
• To undertake risk assessment and management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client's care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration.
  
  East CYPMHS is part of HPFT CYPMHS, a service at the forefront of national developments in CAMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT. We pride ourselves on delivering a high-quality, responsive service through strong multidisciplinary teamwork. The service continues to expand in line with the evolving needs of young people across Hertfordshire., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout