CAMHS Practitioner

As a CAMHS practitioner in the Adolescent Team, you will work alongside the MDT and contribute to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatment.

You will act as a care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in the team working in collaboration with the MDT.

You will also be involved in supporting and advising parents and carers of young people referred to the service, as well as offering consultation and advice to their professional networks.

You will be responsible for a clinical caseload, involved in assessment, care planning and offer evidence-based interventions for young people with support from the wider MDT.

There are opportunities for joint working with a range of professionals across the service and for contributing to group work.

The post holder will coordinate care, assessing and treating children and young people in the team working in collaboration with the MDT.

They will also be involved in supporting and advising parents and carers of young people referred to the service as well as offering consultation and advice to their professional networks.

Participate as a MDT member in the assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to CAMHS.

Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact are accurate, up to date, of good quality and within CAMHS and professional requirement standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS.

Work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment. Work to assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems.

To maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of children, young people and their families.

To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS teams in terms of referrals and joint work. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.

Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager.

Carry out mental health and risk assessments on young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.

Work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children are co-ordinated efficiently across agencies. This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.

Work to provide rapid response and intervention for patients who are referred to CAMHS, where this is required.

Work across interfaces in order to provide an integrated service model intended to reduce response time of referral.

Well developed communication skills are required in order to communicate with staff of all levels and from a variety of disciplines within SLaM and partner agencies.

An ability to promote partnership working between primary and secondary care, local authority, voluntary and statutory agencies, and the independent sector

An ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with patients, relatives and carers, where there may be barriers to understanding.

An ability to deal effectively with patient or carer concerns, complaints and anxieties as they arise

Ensure due-regard to given customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients, carers and their relatives

Maintain a high standard of verbal and written communication to provide continuity of care.

Assume responsibility for case management of young people and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk.

Make clinical formulation from CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention.

Design, write and share copies of care plans with children, young people and their carers.

Assess safeguarding issues and refer concerns to Child Protection Teams.

SLaM is committed to ensuring staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family.

SLaM wants you to feel like you are part of a close knit team. It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that's why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Generous pay, pensions and leave.SLaM offers a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on role and length of service.

Work-life balance.SLaM offersflexible working and supports part-time working and job sharing.

Career development.SLaM provides plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.

Car lease.SLaM staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.

Accommodation.SLaM staffbenefits fromkeyworker housing, available on selected sites.

NHS discounts.SLaM staff are eligiblefor discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though health service discount websites.

Other benefits include

Counselling services.

Wellbeing events.

Long service awards.

Cycle to work scheme.

Season ticket loan.

Childcare vouchers.

Staff restaurants.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Specialist training in modalities such as CBT, DBT

Experience

Desirable: - Experience working in a CAMHS duty system.; - Experience undertaking urgent mental health assessments.

Knowledge and Skills

Desirable: - Specialist knowledge and skills in therapeutic approaches commonly used in CAMHS CBT,DBT, Family Therapy.