This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic qualified nurse, occupational therapist, or social worker to join Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent team. The post-holder will provide high quality specialist assessments, consultations, and evidence base therapeutic interventions for children and young people presenting with severe mental health difficulties. The post holder must be a good team worker, will be responsible for working independently and managing a caseload of young people, ensuring safe and effective clinical practices. The post holder will work within the multi-disciplinary team developing a mentalisation-based approach to working with adolescents with complex mental health presentations.
Responsibilities
* 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.
* To provide specialist mental health advice and consultation.
* To engage therapeutically with young people and their carers in a variety of settings.
* To plan and facilitate appropriate therapeutic intervention including group work for the specialist client group and their families and carers.
* To assess and manage risk in children and young people and do this on an ongoing basis within the role as care coordinator.
* To communicate risks often effectively and appropriately under difficult circumstances to medical staff, other professionals and families involved in the care of the client.
* To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
* To contribute to overall service delivery and development, with a particular focus on the CAMHS care pathway, as required.
* To work closely with the school based and community health professionals, carrying out joint assessments when appropriate.
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