Generic Team Care Coordinator

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

Essential

• Qualification in a core mental health profession:
• Nursing (RMN, RGN or RSCN) with additional therapeutic qualifications
• Clinical or Counselling Psychology (eligible for chartered status)
• Systemic Family Psychotherapy
• Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy (eligible for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists)
• Social Worker with additional therapeutic qualifications e.g. systemic family therapy or CYP IAPT trainings
• First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with additional short course certificate level in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs e.g. CBT, family therapy or equivalent with related CAMHS experience.
• Current professional registration as applicable: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or BABCP

Essential

• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills.
• Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks.
• Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown.
• Ability to manage the multiple demands complex clinical environment
• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS. Understanding of NICE Guidelines for mental health disorders Knowledge of CYP-IAPT and rationale for ROMs Knowledge of legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies.
• Good computer skills and knowledge of patient management systems. Accurate record keeping.
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Experience in family therapy processes.
• Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership.
• Specific knowledge of current issues for Adolescent mental health.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
• Teaching skills in clinical settings

Essential

• Experience of case load management. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of well-developed clinical skills.
• Previous experience of working with young people in a mental health setting.
• Experience of clinical and risk assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Working knowledge and competence in at least one model of therapeutic work (e.g. Systemic, CBT, SFT, Psychodynamic). Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks. Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown. Ability to manage the multiple demands complex clinical environment.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience in setting up and facilitating groups. Experience in family therapy processes. Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership. Specific knowledge of current issues for Adolescent mental health. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups. Teaching skills in clinical settings

Essential

• A positive approach to working with children, adolescents and families. Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post. Commitment to equal opportunities. Self-motivated, assertive and flexible