Description of the duties
Clinical Responsibilities
To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible for the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
To carry out specialist urgent assessments of a young person’s mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.
To work with children, young people and their families promoting opportunities for their maximum engagement and involvement in formulations or care plans and evaluation of the service they receive.
To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.
When appropriate, engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with CAMH services manager.
To develop effective liaisons with referrers, and those contributing to referrals, to specialist CAMHS and to guide referrers to appropriate resources for children and young people with mental health needs.
To attend CAMHS meetings and case discussions as appropriate.
To work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team.
To practice within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the Safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004) and local guidelines.
To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate.
To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their professional body.
To comply with any necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality.
To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings.
To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the child’s home.
To be computer literate.
Professional Responsibilities
To lead and provide clinical supervision to identified professionals and trainees/ students where indicated.
To participate in suitable personal clinical and management supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively.
To keep records and to provide clinical reports on interventions and outcomes.
To develop and sustain links and working relationships with the different community based CAMH teams.
To work within relevant legal and professional frameworks such as The Children Act and Professional Body guidelines.
To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing NHS Trust policies.
To ensure that, as far as possible, practice is evidence based, keeping informed of current practice by undertaking training as appropriate and as required by professional guidelines (e.g. NMC training requirements or Primary Mental Health Work standards and training).
To explore, research and develop further innovative ways to promote positive mental health.
Research and Development
To inform and influence child system-wide mental health practice including the development of joint agency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships.
To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young people’s mental health.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
* Relevant completed professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy, occupational therapy, accredited CBT, psychotherapy)
* Maintenance of appropriate professional registration (ie HCPC, UKCP, NME)
Desirable criteria
* Additional training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS
* Evidence of working therapeutically with children and young people
Experience
Essential criteria
* Knowledge of national and local guidelines/ policy regarding provision of public sector services to children/young people and their families
* Experience of risk assessment and management appropriate to children and young people, including young people who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
* Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments, Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines
Desirable criteria
* Experience in a community CAMHS service
* Experience of managing self injurious behaviour
* Clinical Risk management in relation to children
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
* Ability to organise and prioritise client caseload
* Skilled in Clinical Risk assessment and management in relation to children and young people including experience of managing self-injurious behaviour.
* Ability to be flexible about where the child and family are seen (e.g., clinic, school or home)
* Ability to be sensitive to complex emotional issues.
* Ability to write concise reports for referrers, families and other agencies
* Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their carers.
* Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within the team.
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