Tower Hamlets Specialist CAMHS

CAMHS Specialist Practitioner

Complex Needs Team

Do you have the tenacity and skills to hit the ground running?

Band 7- FIXED TERM 14 MONTHS

(37.5 hrs. per week)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in Tower Hamlets are evolving and changing, wanting the very best services for our children and young people. We are developing and transforming our local Tower Hamlets CAMHS Services offers with the increased need for working with YP with severe Mental needs. We are looking for someone like you to expand our CAMHS Complex Needs team, do you have what it takes?

In conjunction with partners in commissioning, health, social care, and education, we are designing an outcome-based service where all provider agencies will work together to provide the highest quality service to our clients.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for good communicators who are motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and have the ability to work with complex cases and can work effectively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts and deliver treatment tailored to CYP needs. If you have a flexible and adaptive approach to your work a commitment to solid evidence-based practice and strive to give the highest possible quality of service this post is for YOU!

Our Ethos is to provide the right treatment, at the right time and in the right place for the CYP of Tower Hamlets.

About us

The post holders will be part of a multidisciplinary team offering goal-based episodes of care to young people, children and families presenting with various mental health difficulties. The post will give the successful candidates a unique perspective and ability to work collaboratively across all pathways in TH CAMHS. Trialing and innovating new methods of responding to young people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties with underlying vulnerabilities and/or contextual adversity and accompanied high risk requiring more than routine care over a longer period of time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a service we embrace continual improvement with staff and the management team having a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement. Our generic Emotional and Behavioral pathways assess and provide a variety of evidence-based treatments and intervention of children, young people, and their families in this busy East London CAMHS service. The successful candidates will offer as part of the new development of our complex needs team an accessible, flexible, timely and responsive CAMHS Mental health, holistic, risk assessments and treatments to our service users with continued collaborative reviews with our referrers and stakeholders respectively.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Relevant qualification in recognised health/mental health profession e.g. RMN, allied health professions, social work

Desirable

• *Evidence of post registration training e.g. Mentorship, Training, CBT, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT) etc. Evidence of relevant CAMHS training

Knowledge

Essential

• Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families. Legislation relating to children & young people. An understanding of equal opportunities Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London.

Desirable

• Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families. Legislation relating to children & young people. An understanding of equal opportunities Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London.

Experience

Essential

• post registration experience in mental health.
• Experience of working with children and young people's mental health
• To have the ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• *Experience of assessing and managing risk in service users with complex needs

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

TH CAMHS

18 Greatorex Street

London

E1 5NF

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