Senior Mental Health Practitioner

The job will involve, but is not limited to: * carrying out mental health assessments of young people and their families, individually or jointly with staff from other agencies * to hold an individual caseload, and work alongside other professionals for consultation/support in a greater number of other cases, as required * to provide specialist mental health advice to, and assessments with frontline workers where the needs of young people cannot be resolved within Getting Advice or Getting Help services * to individually undertake direct work with children, young people and their families where clinically indicated using evidence based therapeutic interventions, to improve mental wellbeing eg: behaviour, cognitive, family, psycho-dynamic, solution based therapies * to maintain clinical and professional responsibility for a defined caseload * to liaise with colleagues and other professionals or agencies as required, including attending case conferences, planning meetings etc. * to promote clinical effectiveness by the use of clinical protocols and clinical audit * to refer service users to alternative care where detailed assessment indicates a different level or type of service * to develop and offer training packages for multi-agency workers/professionals involved in the care of children and young people * to ensure own knowledge and skills are updated by complying with professional registration, continuing professional development programmes and Statutory/Mandatory training Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!