Opportunity to make a significant impact on the mental health of children and young people in a diverse community.
Access to a large and vibrant multidisciplinary team, fostering collaboration and comprehensive care.
Involvement in innovative and flexible service delivery, helping to address complex mental health needs.
Role includes clinical supervision and line management, enhancing career development and leadership skills.
Engagement in pathway development, allowing for influence in shaping mental health services.
Chance to conduct Front Door Triage Assessments and provide brief interventions, directly impacting patient care.
The East London NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with experience in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to join the Newham CAMHS Front Door Team. This role involves providing specialist mental health assessments, clinical interventions, and consultation, as well as coordinating referrals and facilitating triage assessments. The successful candidate will also engage in clinical and line management supervision and help develop care pathways in collaboration with leadership.
Newham CAMHS is a dynamic service renowned for its commitment to meeting the diverse mental health needs of children and families in the area. The team is multidisciplinary, working closely with various agencies and undertaking extensive outreach to provide comprehensive care. Candidates should embody the trust's core values of care, respect, and inclusivity, as they will be integral in enhancing the quality of life for the community they serve.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and creative Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with CAMHS
experience to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Newham.
This post will include the provision of specialist CAMHS advice/consultation and mental health assessment, specialised clinical interventions and liaison with other agencies.
The role is to assist with the coordination of the Newham CAMHS Front Door Team, which will include Clinical Supervision, Line management Supervision, referral management, pathway development in partnership with the leads of this pathway, and conduct Front Door Triage Assessments. There will also be an opportunity to provide brief interventions and co-facilitate Psychoeducational/therapeutic Groups.
Newham CAMHS is a large and vibrant specialist child and adolescent mental health service with a reputation for innovation and flexibility in meeting the complex mental health support needs of Newham's children, young people and families. It is centrally located on one site in Plaistow, Newham, and provides an extensive and growing range of services including multi-disciplinary specialist teams such as the Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Adolescent Mental Health Team, Paediatric Liaison Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, Looked After Children Team and Social Care/Families First Team. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines (approximately 50 whole time equivalent clinical staff) and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. The service undertakes considerable outreach and consultation work and runs a rolling training programme for Tier 1 workers.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Key Relationships
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Clinical Team Leads, FDT
Children, young people and their families
General Manager CAMHS
CAMHS Senior Management Group
Multidisciplinary colleagues in CAMHS
Other professionals working with children and young people in social services, health, education, youth justice system and the voluntary sector
Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T etc
This advert closes on Friday 17 Jan 2025