Specialist CAMHS Practitioner inWembley inWembley PUBLISHED TUE 3 DEC 2024

To provide a qualified specialist service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. The primary role is to provide direct clinical assessment and treatment to clients and their families.

The post holder will provide advice and consultation to other members of the multidisciplinary teams and clinical and performance management supervision to trainees and less experienced professionals where appropriate and where identified in their Personal Development Plan.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

We are seeking for an enthusiastic and confident CAMHS Practitioner with a demonstrable track record of working within CAMHS, of providing high quality evidence-based interventions and service improvements.This role is suitable for a Mental Health Nurse, Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist or Occupational Therapist with the requisite professional registration.

Brent is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse community, and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working within the richness and complexity of multiculturally diverse context.The successful applicant will be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMHS service, located at Monks Park Health Centre, Wembley.

Your role will involve developing and delivering a wide range of interventions, projects and system changes with the aim of supporting children and young people with mental health issues or emotional disorders. In addition to providing comprehensive consultations, assessment, risk management and interventions for children and young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, the post-holder will also clinically supervise students/colleagues. Supervision training will be provided where required.

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1. To provide initial CAMHS assessments drawing on professional training and experience and clinical skills as well as appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of evidence based sources including the use of routine outcome measures, rating scales, and semi-structured interviews with clients / families.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal clinical treatment and/or management of emotional and behavioural difficulties of clients, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality and with reference to appropriate clinical guidelines and care pathways (e.g. NICE, CEG).
3. Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress using CYP-IAPT routine outcome measures and include family members where appropriate
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by standard care plans.
6. Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others for child and adolescent clients as an ongoing process.
7. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
8. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly sensitive and complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
9. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team.
10. To develop collaborative and effective working links with colleagues across all sectors including external agencies.

Teaching, training and supervision:

1. To attend and participate in regular ongoing supervision.
2. To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team in line with local Quality Improvement projects and service developments.
3. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre/post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
4. To regularly review skills and training needs using the structures of supervision, QI, appraisal and Personal Development Planning (PDP).
5. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with client groups across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Research and service evaluation:

1. Using the Trust structures of Care Quality and QI to participate in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the services operational policies and care pathways, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit for understanding and provision of high quality care as required.
2. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with others as required.
3. Within the CAMHS ED Service Line structures of Care Quality and QI, to contribute to project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families as required

General:

1. To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
2. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
3. To support the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.
4. To ensure all mandated and statutory training, professional registration / revalidation, supervision recording, appraisal and development standards are maintained as required within CNWL and the CAMHS ED Service Line.
5. To adhere to Trust and local policies regarding annual leave, sickness and absence, and codes of conduct within the workplace to maintain a safe, effective and courteous professional environment.

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This is an outline of the post holders duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of the Trust and Department.