CAMHS Practitioner- Youth Justice Service Liaison in London

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Job overview: KC CAMHS have an exciting opportunity to work within CAMHS services to support CYP involved in the Youth Offending system accessing CAMHS services. We are recruiting a dedicated CAMHS Practitioner with experience in working with young people involved in the youth offending system to support and improve mental health outcomes for young people and their families within KC CAMHS Youth Justice Service (YJS).

The postholder will ensure that this cohort is well co-ordinated, taking on case management and co-working with the YJS service, as well as providing direct intervention for the young people. In addition, the postholder might collaborate with wider CAMHS initiatives and complete clinical work within the CAMHS service.

Main duties of the job: The post holder will be jointly responsible for maintaining a collaborative and productive relationship with YJS colleagues within the local authority, managing expectations of service delivery and co-hold risks to the young people known to the service.

We are looking for a highly motivated professional with previous experience of working with young people. You will take a lead role in working with local agencies, the private sector and the voluntary sector. We would welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of the justice system.

Working for our organisation: KC CAMHS team is staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including behavioural, systemic, psycho-dynamic, group and multi-family work as well as neuro-developmental approaches.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: The purpose of the role is to provide a CAMHS service to the Youth Justice Service as required by Crime and Disorder act 1998, to ensure children and young people in contact with youth justice service are provided with mental health services.

The YJS worker will complement an existing coordinated approach by developing and supporting systems to ensure that when a young person enters the youth justice system, the JYS has within it the skill and capacity to ensure that their mental health needs are taken into consideration and addressed effectively.

The post holder will provide assessment, early intervention and referral to a range of primary and secondary health care services and target service users with a view to developing robust assessment and health planning systems with a view to establishing a whole systems approach to healthcare and treatment for this often difficult to reach client group.

Person specification:

• Training and Qualifications: Professional Health or Social Care qualification at postgraduate level; Hold current registration with a regulated professional body/organisation eg HCP, NMC; Evidence of formal post graduate learning within a relevant CYPS/CAMHS setting; CYP IAPT Training; Post-qualification training in teaching & supervision.

• Experience: Level of expected specialist clinical skills, competency and knowledge base will be directly related to post qualification clinical experience; Demonstrate extensive, post qualification experience of providing highly specialist and profession based as well as evidence-based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting; Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise in delivering the above related to working with children and young people with needs and in relation to placements; Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise and be able to take a lead role on the provision of a high-quality specialist service (including consultation, assessment and therapeutic intervention); Demonstrate extensive experience and high levels of competency regarding CAMHS care coordination, including managing highly vulnerable children and young people with complex, multi-agency needs; Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs, including undertaking risk assessments and safety planning; Demonstrate experience and specialist professional and clinical practice; Contribute to service to demonstrate experience and specialist professional consultancy and training to partner agencies development initiatives; Demonstrate experience and expertise regarding delivering CAMHS clinical supervision and consultation to a range of staff.

• Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge: Level of expected specialist clinical skills, competency and knowledge base will be directly related to post qualification clinical experience; Demonstrate specialist knowledge and reasoning regarding a range of evidenced-based professional interventions, including current best practice related to a CAMHS setting; Demonstrate experience and clinical expertise regarding multi-agency therapeutic safeguarding; Demonstrate detailed and expert knowledge of relevant legislation and national policies/guidance in relation to mental health issues, youth offending and learning disability needs with children and young people; Demonstrate knowledge of issues related to equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice; Demonstrate specialist knowledge of working with parental mental health or learning disability issues and the impact when working with children and young people; Demonstrate specialist knowledge of using routine outcome measurements including evaluating service experience against expected outcomes; Robust clinical knowledge of adult mental health problems; Gained theoretical and practical knowledge (specific to the relevant area of work) that is significantly beyond expected professional core levels.

• Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes: Commitment to extend specialist CAMHS related clinical skills as required through reflective practice, CPD opportunities and other initiatives; Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting; Demonstrate effective clinical leadership skills and commitment and take an active role within CAMHS continuous improvement cycles and implementing learning across the service; Excellent standard of verbal, written communication and report writing skills; Ability to operate within an unpredictable work pattern.

• Other: Ability to work flexible hours/out of hours as requested by CAMHS Management to meet needs of service; Able to attend and participate in all mandatory and statutory training events; This is a community based post and therefore a valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is desirable.