Duty Clinician - CAMHS Practitioner

• Assume responsibility for the daily duty system, particularly ascertaining the level of risk, and agreeing safety plans as and when necessary.
• To participate on the local duty rota providing a more urgent response to issues when required.
• Support to parents and young people seeking help between clinic appointments, while in waiting lists or when in crisis.
• Provide initial assessments of children and young people referred to the team.
• Use individual, group work, family work, advice and supervision according to the needs of children and young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to planning packages of care.
• Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
• Complete signposting and social prescribing after CAMHS assessments.
• To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is timely, accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on SystmOne.

Essential

• 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 Professional's Council (HPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
• Relevant professional training will include:
• First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV with related CAMHS experience or any as below:
• First level qualification in Occupational therapy, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience.
• Qualification as a Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist) with relevant CAMHS experience.
• First level qualification in art, play, drama, music therapy or psychotherapy (leading to a registered qualification with one of the above statutory bodies) with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs

Desirable

• Further post qualifying training and education in working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
• CYP-IAPT Therapy Training
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Training in Clinical supervision
• Research

Essential

• Assessed supervised clinical experience working with children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs or clear evidence of transferable skills
• Working in collaboration with supervisor, service user, carers and MDT in assessing needs, planning and implementing care
• Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment
• A good understanding and some experience of the following: Group, individual and family work, multidisciplinary work, clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision in CAMHS

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.
• Relevant research and its application to assessment, treatment and case management of CAMH disorders.
• Research informed and evidence based methods of assessment, treatment and case management.
• Proven ability to work within a changing environment
• Working with families in a multicultural environment
• Working with Looked After Children and foster carers
• Experience in carrying out specialist child and adolescent mental health assessments and treatments

Essential

• Ability to contain and work with organizational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
• Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times.
• Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working.
• Able to prioritize own workload and meet performance requirements for the role.
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change.

Essential

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Essential

• Knowledge and skills in assessment intervention
• A good working knowledge of mental health disorders in children and adolescents
• A good working knowledge of difficulties common to Looked After Children e.g. attachment difficulties
• A good working knowledge of The Children Act 1989, 2004 and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Assessment of risk and management of risk factors
• The principles of clinical governance and practice.
• The principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing.
• Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to take on new concepts/forward thinking
• Good written and verbal presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively by telephone and also by email.
• Basic IT and data entry skills to enter clinical information into databases
• Ability to work within a changing environment
• Ability to be 'reflective' in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
• Demonstrate an ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent time management skills
• Evidence of competency in risk assessment
• Evidence of using child protection
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.