CAMHS PractitionerinGreenwichinGreenwichPUBLISHED TUE 18 MAR 2025
Oxleas NHS Foundation TrustrGNKMGB5
In this role, you'll collaborate within a supportive multi-disciplinary team, drawing upon your skills to enhance the well-being of children experiencing adversity, neurodiversity, and learning disabilities. You’ll take the lead in coordinating personalised care packages, carrying out impactful psychosocial assessments, and establishing crisis management plans. If you’re eager to develop your clinical expertise in a rewarding environment and make a difference in the community, we’d love to hear from you! Your compassion and experience can truly enhance the lives of those who need it most.
We are pleased to advertise an exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate to join our dynamic and energetic CAMHS services as a band 6 CAMHS Practitioner within Learning Disability and Neurodiversity Team, located within the heart of the London Borough of Greenwich.
We are a service committed to evolve to adapt new challenges and place growth and opportunities for service users and for our staff at the heart of these developments. We are passionate about working with children, young people and their families/carers, and are dedicated to providing high-quality and caring community mental healthcare services that improve outcomes and build resilience in community relationships.
As a CAMHS Practitioner you will join a vibrant and experienced multi-disciplinary team and draw on your professional training, skills and experience in providing assessments and a variety of evidence-based interventions for children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties, and their carers and networks. Most of the children and young people we work with have had experiences of adversity and trauma which impact their development, mental health and relationships. We work with children who have a diagnosis of Neurodiversity and learning disability You will need to have an interest in working with this group and an understanding of the impact of Neurodiversity at home and in school setting. You will have a key role in supporting the work of the team in the assessments of children and young people referred, working with carers and young people offering therapeutic and risk management interventions, contribute to our care-coordination and duty emergency system, deliver consultation and training for other professionals working with children and young people in other settings. You will have rewarding opportunities to develop your clinical skills and experience.
About us
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To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
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To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
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To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to the multi-agency network.
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To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
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To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
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To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individuals psychological stability.
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To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
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To provide phone advice to people in crisis.
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To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
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To carry out assessments of mental capacity as required to do so.
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To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
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To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.
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To work extended hours within a two shift system over seven days per week.
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