CAMHS Specialist Practitioner (N&S MCCAED – Outpatients), London

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Client:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

03c6b4207e9d

Job Views:

70

Posted:

18.02.2025

Expiry Date:

04.04.2025

Job Description:

Job overview

The post holder will be a care coordinator responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people who are referred to the team. You will carry out risk assessments with children & young people and their families routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinical supervisor to manage these situations effectively. You will be part of the daily duty rota for the service, which involves screening and managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary. You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 75% of your time is spent in clinical practice. You may clinically and/or professionally supervise, advise or manage junior members.

If you are trained in cognitive behavioural therapy, play therapy, or art therapy, you may apply for this post and your clinical skills will be an added asset for the Symbol team.

Main duties of the job

1. Assume responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents, and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk.
2. Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMH assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention. Design, write and share a copy of the care plan with children, young people and their carers. Carry out the planned intervention with minimal supervision.
3. Assess safeguarding issues for own case and refer concerns to Child Protection teams.
4. Deliver interventions for children and young people based on NICE guidelines and evidence-based practice.
5. Use individual, group work, family work, advice and supervision according to the needs of children and young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to packages of care.
6. Participate and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families and other agencies as required.
7. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.

Working for our organisation

This role is for the Symbol therapy team for children looked after, adopted children and children on special guardianship orders. Lewisham is a borough with very high social needs and high levels of mental illness in adults. The child population of Lewisham aged 0-19 years is now estimated to be 64,000. Children from black and ethnic minority groups represent 37% of the child population of 0-14 year olds. The number of children looked after by the local authority is approximately 480.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in the setting and reviewing of therapeutic aims, objectives, standards and strategies to provide a high standard of care to clients.
2. Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional requirement standards of record keeping.
3. Collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS.
4. Work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
5. To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS Teams in terms of referrals and joint work.
6. Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings.
7. Supervise junior members of the team (Band 5 – 6) or trainees from any discipline.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• All applicants will require a undergraduate degree or above qualification.
• All applicants will require professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professional’s Council (HPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
• ENB 998 or mentorship and or equivalent experience and training (Nursing only).
• Further post qualifying training and education in working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.

Experience

• Assessed supervised clinical experience working with children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs.
• Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment.
• A good understanding and some experience of the following: Group, individual and family work, multi-disciplinary work, clinical governance and audit.
• Working with Looked After Children and foster carers.

Knowledge

• A good working knowledge of mental health disorders in children and adolescents.
• Difficulties common to Looked After Children e.g. attachment difficulties.
• Key legislation relevant to CAMHS setting.
• Assessment of risk and management of risk factors.
• The principles of clinical governance and practice.
• Relevant research and its application to assessment, treatment and case management of CAMH disorders.

Skills & abilities

• Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions.
• Ability to work under pressure and take on new concepts.
• Good written and verbal presentation skills.
• Basic IT and data entry skills to enter clinical information into databases.
• Ability to work within a changing environment.
• Demonstrate an ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Skill in using a specific therapy in practice.

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