• Band 6 CYPMH Practitioner
• Full time Monday Friday 9am-5pm
• Chester,
• Team CYP 0-18 West Cheshire

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Clinical 1. Consult with young people and their parents/carers by telephone or face to face. 2. Undertake an initial comprehensive CYPMHS mental health assessment of new referrals gathering relevant information from child, parents/carers and from other agencies. 3. Communicate and engage with children and young people of various ages, language and developmental abilities. 4. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of therapeutic care to young people suffering from complex mental health difficulties including acute or severe & enduring mental illness and enduring pervasive developmental disorders. 5. Undertake care planning and subsequent reviews in collaboration with a young person, their parents/carer and as necessary other team members. 6. Complete self-injury assessments of young people and formulate a therapeutic risk management plan and be able to communicate this plan to a wide audience. 7. Work as a member of the emergency/duty rota being initially responsible for activating a priority clinical response where necessary. 8. Undertake the screening of routine and urgent referrals and where necessary offering a frontline clinical intervention providing a clinical formulation and risk management plan. 9. Collaborate with young people and their parents/carers with respect to care planning and the management of risk. 10. Hold case management responsibilities for a defined caseload of young people with complex severe & enduring mental health needs.