CAMHS Practitioner / Clinician - Band 7

CAMHS Advanced Mental Health Practitioner - Band 7 (Adolescent Crisis Team) We are looking to appoint a qualified and experienced CAMHS Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to the post based in the newly commissioned Adolescent Crisis Team (ACT). CAMHS in Barnet is facing a key point in its development. We are taking the opportunity to embrace new evidenced based models for delivering mental health care and treatment to the children and young people of Barnet, as well as supporting their families, at the right time and responsive to need. The team is committed to an inclusive approach to these changes in order to get the best and most effective help for the most vulnerable young people in Barnet. The ACT will offer outreach work to families with specific emphasis on children and young people with acute and complex mental health problems and who present with high risk to themselves and/or others. Home visits and outreach work comprise the main part of the work. The team will provide a rapid response to children and young people who require short-term, intensive outreach in order to act as an alternative to paediatric ward admission, Tier 4 hospital admission and to support safe and early discharge from hospital. Applicants must have: * A qualification at degree level or equivalent and registration with relevant professional body with a core profession (e.g. clinical/counselling psychology, psychotherapy, systemic family psychotherapy social work, nursing, occupational therapy) * Experience of working clinically with children and young people with acute and/or complex mental health issues and risk in NHS settings; * Be confident to work independently both in community clinic based and outreach environments; * Experience of working with the professional network around the young person; * Be able to use own initiative and also to work as part of a team; For further details / informal visits contact: Ian Pritchard ian.pritchard@nhs.net, 020 8702 4500 Employment Type: FULL_TIME