CAMHS Practitioner

Main area: Children & Young People

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Service runs from 8.30 am to 6pm Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm on Friday)

Job ref: 426-CYP

Site: Highpoint House

Town: Greenwich

Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 01/04/:59

Job overview

We are pleased to advertise an exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate to join our dynamic and energetic CAMHS services as a band 6 CAMHS Practitioner within Learning Disability and Neurodiversity Team, located within the heart of the London Borough of Greenwich.

We are a service committed to evolve to adapt new challenges and place growth and opportunities for service users and for our staff at the heart of these developments. We are passionate about working with children, young people and their families/carers, and are dedicated to providing high-quality and caring community mental healthcare services that improve outcomes and build resilience in community relationships.

Main duties of the job

As a CAMHS Practitioner, you will join a vibrant and experienced multi-disciplinary team and draw on your professional training, skills and experience in providing assessments and a variety of evidence-based interventions for children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties, and their carers and networks. Most of the children and young people we work with have had experiences of adversity and trauma which impact their development, mental health, and relationships. We work with children who have a diagnosis of Neurodiversity and learning disability. You will need to have an interest in working with this group and an understanding of the impact of Neurodiversity at home and in school settings. You will have a key role in supporting the work of the team in the assessments of children and young people referred, working with carers and young people offering therapeutic and risk management interventions, contribute to our care-coordination and duty emergency system, deliver consultation and training for other professionals working with children and young people in other settings. You will have rewarding opportunities to develop your clinical skills and experience.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence-based interventions and routine outcome measures.
2. To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages/programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
3. To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposting using an outcome-based triage model, to the multi-agency network.
4. To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
5. To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
6. To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual's psychological stability.
7. To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
8. To provide phone advice to people in crisis.
9. To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
10. To carry out assessments of mental capacity as required to do so.
11. To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community-based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
12. To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.
13. To work extended hours within a two-shift system over seven days per week.

Person specification Education/Qualification

• RN Mental Health/CQSW/CSS/DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification/Dip
• Specialist training in a subject/skill relevant to Child & Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years)
• CYP IAPT Dip in CBT/SFP/IPT-A
• Registration with relevant Professional body

Experience

• At least 2 years post-registration experience in a setting where mental health is the primary focus, some of which should have been in a CAMHS setting.

Skills

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate risk/care plans to meet the needs of clients.
• Ability to work to standards for quality within the Service.
• Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate awareness of MDT functioning.
• Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area.
• Willingness and ability to develop specialist knowledge of clinical aspects of child & adolescent mental health.
• Ability to recognise own limits & seek support regarding supervision as appropriate.
• To have developed computer skills to enable input of relevant data and typing of summaries and reports etc.
• The ability to supervise, teach and develop the skills of student nurses/social workers/OT's and junior staff as appropriate.
• Good interpersonal skills & demonstrable ability to work flexibly and respectfully with others.
• Ability to analyse risk and respond appropriately, seeking support as necessary.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high volume of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.