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This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Mental Health Practitioner to join the Liverpool Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
They will be a member of the specialist, multi-disciplinary service and will have case management responsibility for their case load and provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need.
The post holder may be required to provide support, advice and consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person.
We are looking for individuals who have an interest and experience in working with children in care, early years and learning disabilities.
We are also looking for individuals who have skills and experience in engaging families who are from communities that may be at increased risk of social exclusion or marginalisation.
To provide highly specialised CAMHS assessment and therapeutic interventions and to offer advice and consultation to other professionals across a range of agencies including: primary care, social care, and education.
The post holder will have clinical responsibility for complex therapeutic and risk management work with children and young people who have been assessed to require specialist CAMHS Intervention.
The services comprise of five multi-disciplinary teams including staff from varied backgrounds, including psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing and psychotherapy. In addition, our team members are trained in a wealth of different therapeutic interventions and approaches, making the teams truly multi-disciplinary.
Alder Hey has already earned our place as one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, thanks to innovation and pioneering medical work. We treat 250,000 young patients a year and have a broad range of hospital and community services, serving the local population of children, as well as being a tertiary referral centre for children from across Merseyside, Cheshire and parts of Lancashire, Shropshire and North Wales.
We would welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as our ambition is that our workforce is fully reflective of the communities that we serve. Alder Hey is signed up to the disability confident scheme.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sam Coppard Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: sam.coppard@alderhey.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 293 3662
