Candidates should possess post-registration accredited skills and a passion for mental health support, with the ability to adapt to crisis situations. Responsibilities include clinical consultation, providing clear clinical perspectives during team discussions, and ensuring that high standards of care are upheld. The role emphasises maintaining confidentiality, effective communication, and offering guidance to families and external professionals, ultimately ensuring a coordinated approach to the treatment of young individuals facing complex mental health challenges.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Central London CAMHS Home Treatment Team (NCL HTT) as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This is role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality mental health care to support young people and their families in times of crisis, who has established and accredited skills, post -registration, and who is able to adapt to crisis situations as and when they arise. The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will also need to be skilled at multi-agency working.
The NCL Home Treatment Team is a new service delivering high quality co-ordinated care to young people aged 13 up to 18th birthday and their families in mental health crisis across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. The service provides 12 weeks of intensive evidence-based support to prevent admission or facilitate safe early discharge from Tier 4 inpatient units. The team works in close collaboration with CAMHS Assertive Outreach Teams, Tier 4 inpatient units, local authorities, and emergency services. The post holder will work shifts to cover the service hours - 09:00-20:00 weekdays and 12pm-8pm weekends. The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service.
o The post-holder will be expected to deliver flexible, high-frequency, evidence based crisis interventions such as ongoing mental health assessments, risk assessments, safety planning and problem solving in a collaborative fashion.o Provide a clear, evidence based clinical perspective within the multi-disciplinary team and to referring agencies and external professionals.o Be able to provide clinical consultation and liaison when appropriate and establish working clinical formulation through regular Multi-Disciplinary Team discussions.o Help to deliver a service specialising in the care and treatment of children and young people with a range of complex mental health problems and disorders, requiring a crisis response and a period of safe stabilisation out in the community.o Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the provision of specialist child mental health interventions across a range of care provision to meet the needs of individuals, groups of individuals and families requiring intensive Home Treatment support.o To focus on providing evidence based psychological interventions to young people who are suffering from serious mental illness, via a range of venues.o Conduct appropriate specialist assessments of children, young people and their families/carers, evaluating the results and offering a range of therapeutic interventions as appropriate to the presenting clinical need.
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Demonstrate respect for all team members, maximising potential through the diverse roles within the team.
Attend team meetings as required and to attend meetings outside the team on occasions.
Liaison with other teams and services to ensure that quality and timely services are delivered. Work closely with other team members to ensure that care is delivered to the highest standards.
Maintain appropriate client confidentiality at all times, with reference to information sharing agreements using CPA and public protection principles.
Communicate clearly and concisely in both written and verbal forms, taking into account the ethical, professional and legal aspects of documentation. Document all aspects of care, including care provision and communication with relevant others.
Use appropriate methods of communication for addressing client, staff and management issues.
Provide information, education and support to family members, carers and other professionals.
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