BSW CAMHS In Reach- Clinical Lead Specialist (FASS) in Keynsham inKeynsham PUBLISHED TUE 25 FEB 2025 Jump to job information section

We are looking for a Lead Clinical Specialist to join our CAMHS BSW In Reach Team within the (Family Assessment and Safeguarding Service ) FASS pathway.

You will join a small, dedicated and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team committed to developing the highest standards of clinical assessment and treatment for the most vulnerable infants, children and parents. The post will involve travelling throughout Wiltshire and B&NES and working across a number of clinical bases and clients homes.

We would welcome applications from individuals who have a professional background with clinical expertise, knowledge and interest in the delivery of specialist assessment and provision of therapeutic interventions to families where there are complex mental health and safeguarding presentations. The role will involve offering consultations, assessing parents and parent-infant/child relationships, using formulation skills to guide and inform evidence-based treatment for parents and families.

As a service we offer Mentalisation Based Treatment interventions. We utilise the AMBIT (adaptive mentalisation based integrative treatment) approach when providing professional network support.

Within this post there will be ample opportunity to apply a wide range of core clinical skills within this post including: teaching, training, external and internal consultation, supervision, audit, service evaluation and research.

We are a small, specialist multidisciplinary service within Oxford Health CAMHS providing consultation, child and parenting assessments and psycho-therapeutic interventions to families where there is a high risk of severe parenting breakdown, maltreatment and/ or neglect and where there are major parent/child relationship difficulties and/or attachment disorder.

WHO WE WORK WITHFASS works with families with children in their care, from birth (or expectant parents) until the child is aged 18 years old and where there are current and severe risks in relation to parenting problems leading to child abuse and/or neglect.

A requirement is that the family are stepping up to, or subject to, Child Protection Planning and are open to a Local Authority safeguarding team.

One or more of the following issues are usually present within any one case and must be linked to severe relational breakdown between parent(s)/carer(s) and child(ren):

o parent(s)/carer(s) mental health difficulties, personality problems, and/or mild learning disabilityo parent(s)/carer(s) with unresolved childhood maltreatment and traumao families with a child(ren) who has unresolved severe traumao parent(s)/carer(s) with a history of substance misuseo parent(s)/carer(s) with a history of/current relationship difficultieso history of severe parenting breakdown

About us

• To provide a high-quality specialist therapy service to children, young people and their carers identified known to Childrens Social Care.
• To provide consultation and support to team members across Childrens Social Care who deliver assessments, care and interventions.
• To provide training to a range of staff in Childrens social care.
• To attend strategy and multi-agency meetings for young people identified open to the BaNES In- Reach team to contribute to the multi-agency planning and response.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit and contribute to research and training within the areas served by the teams and service.
• To be involved in the development of this new service as appropriate.

Please note provisional interview date for this post March 18th, 2025