Counsellor - CAMHS Single point of Access Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a CAMHS clinician within the Single Point of Access (SPA) for Walsall CAMHS.

The SPA requires an experienced and dynamic professional to work across the front door to our service, providing specialist assessment and triage of referrals into CAMHS. The post holder will take on a split role between referral triage, initial assessments and brief interventions with young people and their families.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a quality specialist service to clients (and their families/carers) referred to CAMHS across all sectors of care.
• Triage referrals into CAMHS, including the assessment and prioritisation of clinical complexity and risk.
• To lead on referral and triage pathways and processes within CAMHS.
• To promote the reputation of CAMHS.
• To provide specialist assessment and intervention for complex mental health needs and to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise systematic governance of practice within CAMHS.
• Effectively assess and prioritise clinical complexity and risk.
• Liaise with referrers and professionals in relation to clinical concerns and queries.
• Be a clinical point of contact for children, young people and families.
• Effectively liaise with referrers, professionals, partners and agencies in relation to referrals and/or assessments.

Working for our organisation

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult and older adult mental health services
• Specialist learning disability services
• Mental health services for children and young people
• Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley

Person specification

Essential & Desirable Criteria

Essential criteria

• Full professional qualification as accredited by relevant professional body
• Evidence of substantial experience of assessment and intervention with children and young people with highly complex mental health (including LD) needs and their families.
• A sound knowledge of psychological, emotional and social needs of children and adolescents

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £35,392.00-£42,618.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Childcare
• Company car
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Employee mentoring programme
• Flexitime
• Free or subsidised travel
• Free parking
• Gym membership
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• assessment/intervention with young people with mental health: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• knowledge of psychological, emotional needs of children (required)
• full accredited qualification by relevant professional body (required)
• knowledge of psychological, emotional needs of adolescents (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 285-9628B-CYPF