This practitioner post sits within KC CAMHS and its Youth Justice Service. The work centres on co-ordinating care for young people in the youth justice system, holding a caseload and delivering direct clinical interventions. Working from KC CAMHS or the youth justice service for at least 80% of time, with out-of-hours work expected, the role links the two services. Fit depends on a postgraduate health or social care qualification and current registration with a regulated body.
What the job involves
- Co-ordinate care and manage cases for children and young people in the youth justice system
- Co-work with Youth Justice Service staff and co-hold risks to young people known to the service
- Deliver direct clinical interventions to young people and their families
- Provide assessment, early intervention and referral to primary and secondary health services
- Link CAMHS and the youth justice service, keeping both the CAMHS perspective and the youth offending context
- Manage expectations of service delivery with Youth Justice Service colleagues in the local authority
- Develop systems so that young people entering the youth justice system have their mental health needs addressed
- Build assessment and health planning systems for a whole-systems approach to healthcare for this client group
- Ensure young people in contact with the youth justice system have the same access to mental and physical health services as other young people
- Work with local agencies and private and voluntary sector partners
- Complete clinical work within CAMHS and contribute to wider CAMHS initiatives
What’s required
Qualifications
- Postgraduate-level professional health or social care qualification
- Clinical supervisor qualification
- Formal postgraduate learning in a CYPS or CAMHS setting
Registration & licences
- Current registration with a regulated professional body (eg HCPC, NMC)
Experience
- Extensive post-qualification experience of specialist, evidence-based clinical interventions
- Extensive CAMHS care co-ordination for highly vulnerable young people with complex, multi-agency needs
- Assessing and managing high clinical risk, including risk assessments and safety planning
- Delivering clinical supervision, consultation and clinical leadership to staff
- Working with young people involved in the youth offending system
Skills & knowledge
- Detailed knowledge of legislation and national policy on mental health, youth offending and learning disability
- Multi-agency therapeutic working, safeguarding and joint care planning
- Specialist knowledge of parental mental health or learning disability issues
- Routine outcome measurement and evaluation against expected outcomes
- Knowledge of equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
- Excellent verbal and written communication, report writing and multidisciplinary working
Other
- Flexible, out-of-hours and unpredictable working as CAMHS management requires, and attendance at mandatory and statutory training
Nice to have
- CYP IAPT training
- Post-qualification training in teaching and supervision
- Recent safeguarding children training
- Robust clinical knowledge of adult mental health problems
- Theoretical and practical knowledge significantly beyond expected professional core levels
- Lived experience of the justice system
- Valid UK driving licence and use of own transport for business purposes
What’s offered
- Training and development given high priority
- Supervision from supervisors in both CAMHS and the Youth Justice Service
- Established and supportive team
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
