CAMHS Practitioner LAC and ETT

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and committed professional to join the Brent CAMHS team as a CAMHS Practitioner for Children Looked After and the Enhanced Treatment team. We are looking for a nurse or professional who has experience of working with children, young people and families within the community, and a sound knowledge of the needs of children looked after. The successful candidate will support the local authority children looked after team, be able to work autonomously, undertake high quality assessments

The post is graded at a band 7, 30 hours per week, based 2 days at Monks Park Health Clinic and 1 or 2 days at Brent Civic Centre. If you are a highly motivated individual who is passionate about improving the outcomes of children looked after, we would like to hear from you.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Wherever you wish to work and whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

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Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as an integral part of a the Brent Looked After Children's service to provide a seamless pathway for the holistic care of Children Looked After. The post holder will improve mental health outcomes for Brent Children Looked After and children placed within the London Borough of Brent. The CAMHS Practitioner for Children Looked After (Brent) will provide a direct clinical service to Children Looked After, undertaking mental health assessment and improving mental health outcomes. The postholder will provide expert advice to carers, health professionals and partners in social services and other agencies. The post holder will support the local authority to ensure that the team meets responsibilities towards Children Looked After.

Working for our organisation

You will join a small friendly team providing services to Brent children looked after and also be part of the Enhanced Treatment Team, holding a caseload for case management. There will be opportunities for professional development, coaching and supervision from the local LAC team, as well as withing CNWL.

The successful applicant will have contact with children and young people and their families.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see attached detailed Job description and person specification for this exciting opportunity.

Person specification

Personal Skills Abilities And Attributes

Essential criteria

• Commitment to extend specialist CAMHS related clinical skills as required through reflective practice, CPD opportunities and other initiatives
• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting
• Demonstrate effective clinical leadership skills and commitment and take an active role within CAMHS continuous improvement cycles and implementing learning across the service. This includes active involvement within service developments and other innovative ways of working
• Excellent standard of verbal, written communication and report writing skills
• Ability to operate within an unpredictable work pattern
  
  

Training And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional Health or Social Care qualification at postgraduate level
• Hold current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation eg HCP, NMC
• Evidence of formal post-graduate learning within a relevant CYPS/CAMHS setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• CYP IAPT Training Clinical supervisor qualification
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Level of expected specialist clinical skills, competency and knowledge base will be directly related to post qualification clinical experience.
• Demonstrate extensive, post-qualification experience of providing highly specialist and profession based as well as evidence-based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting.
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise in delivering the above related to working with children and young people with needs and in relation to placements
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise and be able to take a lead role on the provision of a high-quality specialist service (including consultation, assessment and therapeutic intervention)
• Demonstrate extensive experience and high levels of competency regarding CAMHS care coordination, including managing highly vulnerable children and young people with complex, multi-agency needs
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs, including undertaking risk assessments and safety planning
• Demonstrate experience and specialist professional and clinical practice.
• Contribute to service development initiatives
• Demonstrate experience and specialist professional consultancy and training to partner agencies
• Demonstrate experience and expertise regarding delivering CAMHS clinical supervision and consultation to a range of staff
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of contributing to service development initiatives
  
  

PROFESSION AL / MANAGERIA L / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Level of expected specialist clinical skills, competency and knowledge base will be directly related to post qualification clinical experience.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge and reasoning regarding a range of evidenced-based professional interventions, including current best practice related to a CAMHS setting.
• Demonstrate experience and clinical expertise regarding multi-agency therapeutic working, including safeguarding. This will include providing multi-agency consultation, training and joint care planning
• Demonstrate detailed and expert knowledge of relevant legislation and national policies/guidance in relation to mental health issues, looked after children & learning disability needs with children and young people
• Demonstrate knowledge of issues related to equality, diversity and anti discriminatory practice
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge and experience of working with parental mental health or learning disability issues and the impact when working with children and young people
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge of using routine outcome measurements including evaluating service experience against expected outcomes.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Robust clinical knowledge of adult mental health problems
• Gained theoretic al and practical knowled ge (specific to the relevant area of work) that is significa ntly beyond expected professio nal core levels
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to work flexible hours/out of hours as requested by CAMHS management to meet needs of service
• Able to attend and participate in all mandatory and statutory training events
  
  

Desirable criteria

• This is a community-based post and therefore a valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is desirable.