Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Horizon Team at Lewisham CAMHS. We are seeking to recruit a Band 7 under 5's CAMHS Practitioner. We are the generic service, part of Lewisham CAMHS and provide specialist assessments and intervention for children and young people who are referred to our team.
The Post holder will contribute within the Lewisham Parent and Infant Relationship Service which is part of the Lewisham CAMHS Community Service. You will complete assessments and treatment in accordance with the clinical and evidence-based models that are delivered within the service. You will manage your own caseload and provide specialist parent & child group interventions to children and families with moderate to complex presentation.
Main duties of the job
Your main duties include working in partnership with Social Services, Parental mental Health/Perinatal, Adult Mental Health, Family Hubs, Child Health and key partner to support integrated practice and service delivery. Ensuring records are up to date clinical records and be required to complete and provide reports to networks.
You will also be required to contribute to audit or progress reports on specific aspects of the service developments. You will have some specific responsibilities to contribute to operational systems for referrals to the service, delivering appropriate treatments. To share day to day responsibility for the quality of delivery of clinical care in the service. To support the clinical lead in recommending the allocation of clinical work and operating an agreed system of caseload management.
Manage day to day clinical risks and clinically advise team members on courses of action. Ensure that team members follow systems of safe practice and that operational policies are adhered to. Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS, SLAM & professional requirement standards of record keeping. Ensure that data and information on clinical activity is collected and entered onto ePJS.
Working for our organisation
Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides a diagnostic, assessment, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders, including those at high risk or those with more severe and persistent problems. The service’s Specialist Multidisciplinary Teams include: Horizon (generic); Neuro Developmental Team; Symbol (Looked After and Adopted CYP); LYPS (severe and enduring mental health problems); ARTS (at risk forensic); Paediatric Liaison Service; MHST (Mental Health in Schools); CWP (Child Wellbeing Practitioners); Intake; and Crisis. Lewisham CAMHS focuses on providing high quality mental health support to young people locally. We continually identify and address any potentially barriers or inequalities in regards to access to, and input from, our service, as well as continually improving areas of staff wellbeing and equality within the staff group.
This post is clinically based within the generic team (Horizon) and the leadership component extends to the rest of Lewisham CAMHS. Horizon is a dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in the Kaleidoscope Centre in Catford, an award-winning purpose-built building that brings together specialist community services for health, disability, mental health, education and social care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Experience and ability to function as an infant/child practitioner and adolescent mental health
Experience of working as a care coordinator in infant/child/ child and adolescents’ mental health
Evidence of good practice in infant/child/child and adolescent mental health assessments, assessments of behaviour and performance, family functioning
Experience in carrying out specialist infant/child mental health assessments and treatments for under 5s population
Evidence of providing CAMHS interventions in group, individual and family work, multidisciplinary work.
Evidence of experience of clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision
A good working knowledge of mental health disorders in infant, children and adolescents.
A good working knowledge of Difficulties common to Looked After Children and children families facing adversity e.g., attachment difficulties
Knowledge of current legislation and clinical governance (Children Act 1989, 2004 and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005, Child protection procedures).
Knowledge of assessment of risk and management of risk factors
Good working knowledge of difficulties in the Perinatal period and maternal mental health difficulties.
Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions
Ability to work under pressure.
Ability work effectively with the MDT to take on new concepts.
Good written and verbal presentation skills and basic IT.
Ability to work within a changing environment Ability to be ‘reflective’ in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
Person specification
experience
Essential criteria
1. All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professional's Council (HPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), British Psychoanalytic Council (BCP). Relevant professional training will include: First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV with related CAMHS
2. Qualification or extensive experience in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and observation
Desirable criteria
3. Training in Clinical supervision
4. Further post qualifying training and education in working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
Experience
Essential criteria
5. Experience and ability to function as an infant/child practitioner and adolescent mental health
6. Experience of working as a care coordinator in infant/child/ child and adolescents’ mental health
7. Evidence of good practice in infant/child/child and adolescent mental health assessments, assessments of behaviour and performance, family functioning
8. Experience in carrying out specialist infant/child mental health assessments and treatments for under 5s population.
9. Evidence of providing CAMHS interventions in group, individual and family work, multidisciplinary work.
Desirable criteria
10. Working with families in a multi-racial urban environment
Knowlegde
Essential criteria
11. A good working knowledge of mental health disorders in infant, children and adolescents
12. A good working knowledge of Difficulties common to Looked After Children and children families facing adversity e.g., attachment difficulties
13. Knowledge of current legislation and clinical governance (Children Act 1989, 2004 and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005, Child protection procedures).
14. Knowledge of assessment of risk and management of risk factors
15. Good working knowledge of difficulties in the Perinatal period and maternal mental health difficulties.
Desirable criteria
16. Evidence of organisational skills to deliver targets and meet deadlines
17. Proven ability to work within a changing environment
skills and abilities
Essential criteria
18. Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions
19. Ability to work under pressure.
20. Ability work effectively with the MDT to take on new concepts.
21. Good written and verbal presentation skills and basic IT.
22. Ability to work within a changing environment Ability to be ‘reflective’ in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
Desirable criteria
23. Leadership skills
24. Skills in negotiating & Influencing others