LD CAMHS Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity for an LD CAMHS Practitioner in our Children's Learning Disabilities and Autism team, in Southampton City. The post sits within the wider Solent Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and is supported by a multi-disciplinary team that works as part of the CAMHS offer overall.

You would be joining a newly redesigned service and will be integral to the continued development of the team and the service offer. We are a team that are based in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, and are aligned with the Children with Disabilities Social Work team in Southampton City Council that supports children with Learning Disability as well as children with Neurodiversity/ Autism needs as well. As a dynamic team we are committed to finding creative ways of providing timely, locally delivered, high quality and effective interventions that maximise mental health and maintain children and young people within their home and educational environment., As a member of the team, you will be supporting children and young people on an individual basis as well as having an opportunity to contribute to the service development and the implementation of local services and care delivery pathways. You will have responsibilities for service development and supporting and supervising staff to deliver evidence based interventions to children and young people, and their families. Good organisational skills and clinical assessment/problem solving skills are also required. Collaborative working with a range of professionals is an important part of this post and it is essential you can work as part of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams. The ability to work both within individual and group-based therapeutic programs of care is also essential.

There is peer support, regular team supervision meetings, group and individual clinical supervision and regular line management meetings. This post will involve work across the SEND 0-25 team based at the Civic Offices in Southampton City Centre and community-based work.

If you enjoy being a part of a team, are creative, seeking a new challenge and want to make a positive difference to the lives of children & young people and their families, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence