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Search the South London and Maudsley website Main area: Social Workers, Arts Therapists, Psychotherapists
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract currently filled with a fixed-term contract - to be filled permanently
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (full time)
Job ref: 334-CLI-

Site: Southwark CAMHS
Town: Southwark
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of Inner HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/04/:59

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links, and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth, and Richmond.

We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users, and we are recognized for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes, and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognizes the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen, and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview The post holder will work as a specialist clinician in Southwark Assertive Outreach Team to meet the needs of adolescents, up to age 18, with complex mental health problems who will require urgent assessment and stepped-up interventions (e.g., 7-day follow-up and at times treatment in their own home).

Main duties of the job Key Responsibilities:

1. To provide timely assessments and treatment aimed at reducing the number of A&E presentations and other barriers to engagement.
2. To participate in the Assertive Outreach team as a multi-disciplinary team member in the setting, reviewing of care plans, therapeutic aims, and to provide a high standard of care to clients.
3. To have a flexible and innovative approach with the treatment interventions provided drawing on NICE guidelines, evidence-based practice, and utilizing routine outcome measures.
4. Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact are accurate, up to date, of good quality, and professional requirement standards of record keeping.
5. To attend monthly supervision and twice-yearly appraisal meetings. To make effective use of colleagues in casework supervision and other forms of supervision when required according to local practice, including attending peer supervision meetings.
6. To maintain and ensure good professional standards in the care and treatment of young people and their families. To undertake all duties in line with the professional Codes of Professional Conduct, policies and guidelines, and CAMHS governance standards. To maintain professional registration requirements for the post according to discipline/profession.
7. To 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.

Working for our organisation About South London and Maudsley:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organizations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

Child and adolescent mental health service

We have the most comprehensive range of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in the United Kingdom with a budget of approximately £47 million. Our services are renowned nationally and internationally, with clinical practice that thrives on our close links with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, and the Medical Research Council Child Psychiatry Unit.

We are also proud to be part of the South London Partnership (SLP); a collaboration between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, and South West London and St George's NHS Foundation Trust set up to improve quality and access to mental health services across the whole of south London.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Service and team responsibilities:

1. You will carry out mental health & risk assessments on adolescents in your care and work under the supervision of the team managers and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.
2. You will work with other CAMHS practitioners from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individuals are coordinated efficiently across agencies. This post is a clinical post and the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.
3. The post holder will work to provide rapid response and intervention for patients in crisis.
4. To work across interfaces in order to provide an integrated service model intended to reduce response time of referral.

Communication:

1. Good communication skills are required in order to communicate with staff of all levels and from a variety of disciplines within SLaM and partner agencies.
2. Ability to promote partnership working between Primary and Secondary care, Local Authority, Voluntary and Statutory agencies, and the independent sector.
3. Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with patients, relatives, and carers, where there may be barriers to understanding. Ability to deal effectively with patient or carer concerns, complaints, and anxieties as they arise.
4. To work with cultural humility.
5. Maintain a high standard of verbal and written communication to provide continuity of care.

Individual Clinical

1. Assume responsibility for own case list and case management of adolescents and families with contextual risk and developing appropriate risk formulations.
2. Make a clinical formulation from a standard assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention. Design, write and share a copy of the care plan with young people and where appropriate with their carers.
3. Assess safeguarding issues and where appropriate make referrals to Child Protection teams.
4. Deliver evidence-based interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines and adapted to the needs of adolescents.
5. Use individual, group work, family work, advice, and supervision according to the needs of young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to packages of care.
6. Participate and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families, and other agencies as required.
7. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.

Professional Conduct

1. Undertake all duties in line with the professional Codes of Professional Conduct, and maintain professional registration requirements for the post according to discipline/profession.
2. Work in accordance and within the principles, policies, procedures, and guidelines of all aspects of clinical governance.
3. Attend monthly supervision (individual and or group/ peer supervision) and annual appraisal meetings.
4. Remain up to date with changing practices and wherever possible make full use of all training and educational facilities.

The post holder will assess patients and offer advice and support or refer/signpost to other agencies for specialist advice/support/service if appropriate. The post holder will communicate effectively with young people, their families, the MDT, and wider professional networks. They will also clearly document assessments and subsequent shared decision-making.

Person specification Qualifications

• First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV or First level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent or First level qualification in art, play, drama . click apply for full job details