Senior CAMHS Clinician- Bright Futures

Overview

We are recruiting a Senior CAMHS Clinician who is passionate about integrated multi-agency working, sharing psychological knowledge and skills with practitioners from a range of backgrounds supporting families from a trauma informed, motivational practice model. The post-holder will be a proactive, highly skilled individual who is committed to improving health and wellbeing outcomes for CYP with some of the most vulnerable families in the borough. Islington CAMHS has a well-established history of working collaboratively with Islington Early Help including the Bright Futures Service. This post is connected to a CAMHS in LBI team overseen by the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager. Bright Futures is part of LBI Early Help offer for families of five- to 19-year-olds. The service comprises a targeted family support case holding offer and an outreach support offer working with families alongside universal services. The Bright Futures service is delivered by outreach workers, family and senior practitioners, deputy and team managers. There are three Bright Futures locality teams in the North, Central and South of the borough. The clinical offer to Bright Futures incorporates CAMHS and Adult Mental Health input via the Psychologically Informed Consultation & Training (PICT) team. The post-holder will therefore work closely with PICT to provide a \”whole family\” mental health offer. This innovative way of working has gained a lot of positive recognition within the borough.

Responsibilities

• Provide responsive and accessible specialist CAMHS clinical input through a range of clinical activities integrated with local authority workforce to achieve good social, emotional and mental health outcomes for CYP 5-19 (25 SEND) years and their families. Integrated service delivery as part of multi-agency \’team around the worker\’ to improve educational attendance.
• Provide an interface between the CAMHS service, allocated social worker and mental health services.
• Provide opportunities for local authority practitioners to reflect on and acknowledge the impact of the work, to support staff well-being.

Teaching, training and supervision

• To provide training and workshops for Bright Futures practitioners on CYP mental health, emotional wellbeing and development. This will include identification of CYP mental health difficulties and evidence-based approaches to parenting and working with parents. Training will often be developed and delivered in conjunction with PICT colleagues in collaboration with LBI workforce development.
• To offer clinical supervision to more junior CAMHS clinicians including Band 7 and Band 4 CAMHS clinicians if required.

Management, policy and service development

• To undertake and complete monitoring of clinical outcomes and own activity data in accordance with the agreed protocol for the CAMHS in LBI Team outcomes framework.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the CAMHS in LBI team\’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To advise the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager on those aspects of the Bright Futures service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• To contribute to the integration and development of user participation, outcomes measures, and evidence-based intervention approaches in line with both the local authority and wider CAMHS strategy for service improvement.

Research and service evaluation

• To contribute to the evaluation of the CAMHS in Bright Futures service and model, as required by the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager.
• To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues with the CAMHS in LBI team and Bright Futures to help develop and evaluate service provision as required.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

Safeguarding

To comply with the Trust\’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Application and process

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• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
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• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a \”selfie\” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided.

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