Job Summary: CAMHS Youth Justice Service Specialist mental Health Clinician (Clinical Psychologist, Mental health Nurse, Child Psychotherapist, Family Therapist, Mental Health Social worker), Maternity leave cover
Contract: 12 months (fixed term)
Hours: Part-time - 6 sessions per week
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Annual Leave: 27 days per annum increasing to 29 days after 5 years NHS service and 33 days after 10 years NHS service
Site: Isledon Road, London N7 (YJS Partner agency)
Employer: Whittington Health NHS Trust
Department: Islington CAMHS
Responsible to: CAMHS YJS Team manager
Accountable to: Deputy Associate Director for CAMHS
Salary: £43,742-50,056 per annum
Terms & Conditions of Service: In accordance with NHS Agenda for Change
Main duties of the job:
* Screening and assessing Children and Young people where there is consent for CAMHS to become involved
* Determining whether further therapeutic work would be beneficial. Liaising with further services where more input is needed and sharing any risk concerns.
* To provide ongoing work to children and young people who would like to continue accessing therapeutic support.
* Provide a flexible approach to therapeutic support. Generally working with children up to the completion of court order where necessary.
* To provide consultation spaces, offering one hour bi-monthly to each case manager to consult on their caseload of children and young people to identify any mental health concerns, support with delivery of intervention.
* Attend weekly Early intervention and Diversion panel meeting (Multi-agency meeting) where all children and young people who have come into contact with the police are discussed
* Offer mental health screening to children and young people who are discussed at the Early Intervention Diversion panel when necessary, reviewing EIDP Children and young people's case notes on health care records and summarize on need-to-know basis
* Providing a CAMHS service within YJS in line with service level agreement and Key performance indicators
About Us:
Whittington Mission, Vision and Goals: We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.
Our mission: Helping local people live longer, healthier lives.
Our vision: Provide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.
Our goals: We have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.
* To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
* To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
* To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
* To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
* To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
* To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population
Whittington Values: Our values underpin everything we do. Our staff are committed to delivering the following values in everything they do.
Person Specification:
Essential:
* A professional qualification in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology, Child Psychotherapy, Family Therapy or other core mental health discipline.
* Registration with relevant professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, ACP, UKCP)
Skill/ Abilities:
* High level knowledge of psychological theory and practice relevant to anti-social and offending young people e.g. social learning theory and cognitive behavioural therapy.
* Knowledge and skills in the use of psychological and psychometric methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management of children and young people.
* Ability to acquire and apply a highly collaborative, team-based model of working to deliver high quality health care to challenging, disadvantaged and young people with high level of complexity and contextual safeguarding, and their families in non-health settings.
* Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with colleagues and clients in multidisciplinary, multi-agency and criminal justice settings.
* Knowledge and skills in the effective verbal and written communication of complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
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