Senior Mental Health Practitioner

The New Forest Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team are seeking a Senior Mental health Practitioner to join the already well established and supportive team. You will be a highly motivated and experienced practitioner with leadership skills and a passion for working with young people and their families.

The team is committed to providing children and young people with the best evidence-cased care to support them to improve their mental health and progress with hope for the future. We are made up of a multi-disciplinary team of innovative and dynamic practitioner who work hard to find new ways of providing clinical care to effectively work with the young people in the New Forest. We are driven to deliver high quality assessments and interventions that keep the young person and their families at the heart of what we do. Hampshire CAMHS has established care pathways which you will work across including supporting neurodevelopmental assessment and both individual and group work.

We have support structures for Social workers, AHP's and Nurses and there is robust and supportive clinical, management and professional supervision including clear governance processes to support staff to practice safely and effectively. We are supportive of clinicians professional development and provide training opportunities to enhance clinical practice and career development., You will work in partnership with children, young people (CYP) and their families to deliver high quality assessments and evidence based interventions for those presenting with complex mental health needs. Using your specialist skills, you will complete initial assessments, contribute to duty system responsibilities, develop collaborative care plans, and deliver both one to one and group interventions. You will also support neurodevelopmental assessments and contribute to the ongoing development of the team and wider service, including supervising and mentoring colleagues and students.

You will demonstrate a strong understanding of clinical interventions relevant to CYP and work closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate these effectively. At all times, you will promote the safety, wellbeing and recovery of CYP and their families.

The role involves supporting young people across a broad range of clinical pathways and working closely with clinicians from services including the Single Point of Access, Early Help, Urgent Assessment and Home Treatment (i2i), Eating Disorders, and others to ensure coordinated and high quality care.

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

£49,387 to £56,515 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata