Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and creative Highly Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with CAMHS
experience to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Newham.
This post will include the provision of specialist CAMHS advice/consultation and mental health assessment, specialised clinical interventions and liaison with other agencies.
The role is to assist with the coordination of the Newham CAMHS Front Door Team, which will include Clinical Supervision, Line management Supervision, referral management, pathway development in partnership with the leads of this pathway, and conduct Front Door Triage Assessments. There will also be an opportunity to provide brief interventions and co-facilitate Psychoeducational/therapeutic Groups.
Main duties of the job
Newham CAMHS is a large and vibrant specialist child and adolescent mental health service with a reputation for innovation and flexibility in meeting the complex mental health support needs of Newham's children, young people and families. It is centrally located on one site in Plaistow, Newham, and provides an extensive and growing range of services including multi-disciplinary specialist teams such as the Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Adolescent Mental Health Team, Pediatrics Liaison Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, Looked After Children Team and Social Care/Families First Team. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines (approximately 130 whole time equivalent clinical staff) and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. The service undertakes considerable outreach and consultation work and runs a rolling training programme for Tier 1 workers.
Please see the attached full job description to review the essentials and desirables for this role
Please contact Loveness Kanzara if you have any questions related to this post
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Relationships:
• Clinical Team Leads, FDT
• Children, young people and their families
• General Manager CAMHS
• CAMHS Senior Management Group
• Multidisciplinary colleagues in CAMHS
• Other professionals working with children and young people in social services, health, education, youth justice system and the voluntary sector
• Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T etc
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
1. Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such: Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Occupational Therapist / Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health) / Social Worker
2. Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g. BSc, Masters or Doctoral level
3. Registration with your appropriate body (e.g. UKCP, NMC, HCPC etc.)
4. Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD), as appropriate with qualification period
Experience
Essential criteria
5. Substantial experience in relevant profession at Band 7 or 8a
6. Substantial experience in delivering specialist level mental health interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
7. Substantial experience in CAMHS
8. Substantial experience of working with complex networks
9. Substantial experience of working with children with challenging behaviour, their families and wider networks
10. Substantial experience of working with a wide variety of patient/client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
11. Substantial experience of working with children and young people in an emotionally demanding environment
12. Substantial experience with working with children and young people and their families in a therapeutic context
13. Substantial experience of working with children, young people and families in emotional crisis
14. Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues and serious mental health problems, including challenging behaviour
15. Substantial experience of risk assessment and risk management
16. Substantial experience of providing consultation in the multi-agency context
17. Substantial experience in working in a complex multi-disciplinary context
18. Experience, skills and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
Desirable criteria
19. Experience/knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters
20. Experience of teaching and training Experience of working with families in severe crisis
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
21. Highly specialist skills in the use of complex methods of CAMHS assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, families and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
22. A highly specialist level of clinical skill
23. Highly specialist skills in applying theory to work with individuals, couples, families, groups and organisations
24. A highly specialist level of ability to provide services in the complex community environment, to meet the needs of clients and families
25. Highly specialist skills in providing consultations in the multi-agency context
26. Ability to provide services in the school environment, to meet the needs of clients and contracted work.
27. Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work flexibly according to need
28. Ability to communicate distressing and unwelcome information to children, adolescents and their families
29. Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working therapeutically in family homes
30. Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situations including:- •staff and /or organisational problems •child abuse •family breakdown •serious mental ill health and risk of self-harm
31. Ability to cope with verbal abuse and to recognise and diffuse potential physical abuse from clients.
32. Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
33. Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and CAMHS Tiers
34. Highly specialist skills and ability to liaise effectively with other agencies and professionals
35. Ability to use supervision effectively
Desirable criteria
36. An interest of developing expertise in school-based CAMHS work.
37. Well-developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age appropriate level, complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS including reports for the Courts
Other
Essential criteria
38. Knowledge of research methodology consistent with and relevant to CAMHS practice
39. Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional guidelines
40. Knowledge of and skill in using a wide variety of CAMH theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
41. Sufficient knowledge of other modalities to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients
42. Knowledge of child development/ mental health issues
43. Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, and ethical issues, including The Children Act, and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management
44. Knowledge of current developments in therapy with children and adolescents with serious mental health problems
45. Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
46. Knowledge of current development in CAMHS
Desirable criteria
47. Knowledge of current guidelines and recommendations of assessment and treatment of adolescents with psychotic breakdown and illness, serious clinical depression with risks of self-harm and suicide, with severe eating disorders and of adolescents who abuse drugs and are dangerous and acting out.