Mental Health Practitioner - Single Point of Access Team

Job summary

Are you a clinical professional looking for a new challenge?

We are looking for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Single Point of Access Team! In this diverse role you will develop and deliver a specialist mental health service under the guidance of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).

We are looking for someone to offer a mental health perspective to the multi-agency teams through therapeutic work, joint work and participation in network meetings.

As a member of a multi-disciplinary team you will hold a caseload and provide direct clinical work. All children are seen in the context of their family and as such you would demonstrate a high level of skill in treating the clients system, where families have severe, multi-complex long standing difficulties.

If this sounds like the role for you then get in touch today!

Main duties of the job

• To support staff within the wider service and partner agencies from a specialist mental health perspective.
• To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for assessments, formulation of systemic treatment, reviews and discharge summaries and be accountable for professional actions and policies.
• To participate in the development of a high quality, responsive service for children, young people and their families/carers/friends where appropriate. This may include professionally advising and managing those aspects of the service where psychiatric and/or organisational issues need addressing
• To share responsibility for and to provide a Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service within Specialist CAMHS.
• To be responsible for delivering specialist child and adolescent psychiatry in a way that is integrated with the work of other disciplines within the team and wider Children and Family Service.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.