Band 7 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol

To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions, and to be responsible for the management of your own caseload from referral to discharge. To carry out specialist urgent assessments of a young person's mental health needs and associated risks when required, including deliberate self-harm assessments.

To work collaboratively with young people, carers and the wider system to develop safety plans to reduce risk and enable young people to access support in the community. To hold an anti-oppressive approach at the heart of your practice and challenge oppressive and/or discriminatory issues. To work with children, young people and their families, promoting opportunities for their engagement and involvement in formulations, care plans and evaluation of the service they receive.

To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children, young people and their families. When appropriate, to engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with the CAMHS Services Manager. To develop effective liaison with referrers and those contributing to referrals to CAMHS, and to guide referrers to appropriate resources for children and young people with mental health needs.

To attend CAMHS meetings and case discussions as appropriate. To practise within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004), and local guidelines. To assess child safeguarding issues for each case, to practise within local safeguarding guidelines, to share and directly refer concerns when appropriate, and to participate in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.

To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate. To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of your professional body. To comply with necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality. To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings.

To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the child's home. To be IT literate. To lead and provide clinical supervision to identified professionals and trainees/students where indicated. To participate in clinical and management supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively. To keep records and provide clinical reports on interventions and outcomes.

To develop and sustain links and working relationships with the different community-based CAMHS teams. To work within relevant legal and professional frameworks such as the Children Act and professional body guidelines. To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing NHS Trust policies.

To ensure that, as far as possible, practice is evidence-based, keeping informed of current practice by undertaking training as appropriate and as required by professional guidelines (e.g., NMC training requirements or Primary Mental Health Work standards and training). To explore, research and develop innovative ways to promote positive mental health.

To inform and influence system-wide child mental health practice, including the development of joint-agency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships. To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young people's mental health. To participate in obtaining service users' views and involve service users in the design and delivery of accessible mental health provision in the community.

To participate in audit, evaluation, teaching and research as agreed with the line manager.