Overview
The post holder will provide leadership as a Specialist Community Co-Occurring Practitioner working closely with both Child and Adolescent Mental Health Teams (CAMHS) and Children and the area Young People Substance Misuse Services (CYPSMS) to develop the Co-Occurring pathway in local County based services. They will work with the MDT to lead the implementation, monitoring and management of the Co-Occurring Framework Pathway across both CAMHS and CYP Substance Misuse services. The post holder will have responsibility to maintain a clinical caseload and will include setting and maintaining clinical standards within the governance framework, motivation and leadership of team members from both CAMHS and SMS services in reaching specific clinical, health and Co-Occurring framework targets. There will be protected time given in CYPSMS services, ensuring flexibility across both services to address need and demand. This will be a common sense approach involving a split of 50/50 or 60/40 across the services. This will be agreed locally and reviewed as required.
Responsibilities
* Lead the implementation, monitoring and management of the Co-Occurring Framework Pathway across CAMHS and CYP Substance Misuse services.
* Maintain a clinical caseload and set/maintain clinical standards within the governance framework.
* Provide motivation and leadership of team members from both CAMHS and SMS services to reach clinical, health and Co-Occurring framework targets.
* Coordinate protected time across CYPSMS services with a split of 50/50 or 60/40 across the services, as agreed locally and reviewed as required.
Qualifications and experience
* Band 6 Co-Occurring Practitioner CAMHS Practitioner posts; skilled in mental health assessment, risk assessment, and delivering interventions to support emotional wellbeing and mental health.
* Experience of working within children and young people would be advantageous.
* Must be a healthcare professional, accredited therapist or Social Worker with experience supporting emotional wellbeing.
* All employees are offered a structured induction and development plan to support clinicians to develop their skills to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
* The ability to speak Welsh is desirable; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Organisation and location
In North Wales we are growing our CAMHS Services. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales. Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and \'Proud to Lead\' competence framework.
Equality, diversity and recruitment notes
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the "Disability Confident Employer" scheme.
Applications and language
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form. Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
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