Overview
Croydon CAMHS is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an Advanced CAMHS practitioner who would like to further develop their skills in Community CAMHS referral management, care contact, triage and risk management with children & young people with a range of emotional well-being and/or mental health (including neuropsychiatric) difficulties.
The post is in the Croydon Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Single Point of Contact (EWMH SPOC) Team. This post would be suitable as a secondment opportunity.
Responsibilities
* Process referrals, care contacts and triage assessments.
* Support risk management planning for children and young people with emotional wellbeing and/or mental health needs.
* Make appropriate referral recommendations.
* Provide advice, education and support to service users and their carers or family members.
Qualifications and requirements
* First level nursing qualification/registration RMN, RSCN or HV or first level qualification in OT, clinical or counselling psychology, systemic psychotherapy, social work, or equivalent in art, play, drama or music therapy.
* All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body: the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social Care Council, UK Council for Psychotherapy or Health & Care Professions Council.
Knowledge and experience
Knowledge of and skills in working with young people with acute mental health needs and/or a range of complex neuropsychiatric disorders is essential for this post.
About the organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
Contact for details
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Linda Galvin
Job title: Clinical Service Lead for EWMH SPOC
Email: Linda.Galvin@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0203 228 0000
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