CAMHS Practitioner- Youth Justice Service Liaison
Job summary
KC CAMHS have an exiting opportunity to work within CAMHS services to support CYP involved in the Youth Offending system accessing CAMHS services. We are recruiting a dedicated CAMHS Practitioner with experience in working with young people involved in the youth offending system to support and improve mental health outcomes for young people and their families within KC CAMHS Youth Justice Service (YJS).
The postholder will ensure that this cohort is well co-ordinated, taking on case management and co-working with the YJS service, as well as providing direct intervention for the young people. In addition, the postholders' might collaborate with wider CAMHS initiatives and complete clinical work within the CAMHS service.
We are looking for the right candidate who can work within the youth offending context whilst also maintaining the CAMHS perspective and play a key link role between these two services. If you think you have the skills to take up this role we want to hear from you. You would join an established and supportive team and a service which places training and development high on the agenda.
The postholder will be expected to work either from KC CAMHS or the Youth Justice Service at least 80% of their time. They will be supported by supervisors in both services. To find out more about working in CAMHS, CLICK HERE for our video.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be jointly responsible for maintaining a collaborative and productive relationship with YJS colleagues within the local authority, managing expectations of service delivery and co-hold risks to the young people known to the service. We are looking for a highly motivated professional with previous experience of working with young people. You will take a lead role in working with local agencies, the private sector and the voluntary sector. We would welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of the justice system.
About us
KC CAMHS team is staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including behavioural, systemic, psycho-dynamic, group and multi-family work as well as neuro-developmental approaches.If you want to join this supportive and innovative team and are looking for a challenging career development then we look forward to hearing from you.
Job responsibilities
The purpose of the role is to provide a CAMHS service to the Youth Justice Service as required by Crime and Disorder act 1998, to ensure children and young people in contact with youth justice service are provided with mental health services.
The YJS worker will compliment an existing coordinated approach by developing and supporting systems to ensure that when a young person enters the youth justice system, the JYS has within it the skill and capacity to ensure that their mental health needs are taken into consideration and addressed effectively.
The post holder will ensure that a young person in contact with the youth justice system will have the same access to a comprehensive health service (both mental and physical health) as any other young person within the general population.
The post holder will provide assessment, early intervention and referral to a range of primary and secondary health care services and target service users with a view to developing robust assessment and health planning systems with a view to establishing a whole systems approach to healthcare and treatment for this often difficult to reach client group.
Person Specification
Training and
Qualifications · Essential
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 Clinical supervisor qualification
Desirable
CYP IAPT Training Post-qualification training in teaching & supervision Recent safeguarding children training
Experience · Essential
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) 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 to demonstrate experience and specialist professional consultancy and training to partner agencies elopment initiatives Demonstrate experience and expertise regarding delivering CAMHS clinical supervision and consultation to a range of staff Professional/Managerial/Specalist
Knowledge · Essential
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 wsafeguarding.
This will include providing multi-agency consultation, training and joint care planning orking, including Demonstrate detailed and expert knowledge of relevant legislation and national policies/guidance in relation to mental health issues, youth offending and 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
Robust clinical knowledge of adult mental health problems Gained theoretical and practical knowledge (specific to the relevant area of work) that is significantly beyond expected professional core levels PERSONAL SKILLS ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential
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
Other · Essential
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
This is a community based post and therefore a valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is desirable.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
