Alliance CAMHS is looking for a Senior CAMH Social Worker whose core values are to place patients at the centre of all learning and ensure approaches to clinical care delivery and well-being are compassionate and high quality.

The role requires a leader who is innovative and personally motivated to work with social workers and several multi-professional team members who support a high standard of clinical care provision, supervision, and education.

You will need demonstrable leadership skills and excellent clinical skills in CAMHS, ideally with acute urgent care pathway experience and community crisis care. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team holding a clinical caseload and undertaking appropriate mental health assessments of children and adolescents presenting to local hospitals and CAMHS in crisis. An aspect of the role includes supervision, teaching and development as part of the training and progression pathway within CAMHS. You will be part of the CAMHS Alliance senior group and will be expected to support the Clinical Team Manager to make sure the team runs safely and effectively.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will participate and lead on the delivery of clinical care for patients across the crisis pathway, which includes helpline telephone support, step down from inpatient units/paediatric wards and intensive home treatment. You will carry out specialist assessments of children and young people with severe and complex mental health presentations and will document the outcome of these assessments, providing formulation, diagnosis, and recommendations for interventions. You will offer a range of individual, family and group therapeutic interventions, including risk management, appropriate for children and young people attending the service. You will ideally have experience in inpatient or crisis care and a demonstrable commitment to creative engagement with a culturally diverse population of young people. Essential qualities: To show initiative, demonstrate excellent leadership, be a team player and to communicate ideas clearly to both professionals and young people alike.

About us

he Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

The link below will also provide useful information.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services staff share their stories of working for the NHS. (youtube.com)

Job description

Job responsibilities

he Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

The link below will also provide useful information.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services staff share their stories of working for the NHS. (youtube.com)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification in Social Work with additional therapeutic qualifications and supplemented with other specialist training and short courses.
• Registration with Social Work England.
• Evidence of accredited courses in child and adolescent mental health practice.
• First or higher degree in appropriate subject area or equivalent post registration training and experience.

Desirable

• Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. systemic therapies, CBT, Family Intervention. Evidence based group work e.g. DBT

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience of assessment and working therapeutically with children, adolescents and their families within a community mental health setting.
• Experience of working in a number of ways i.e. assertive outreach, clinic based settings, home, school or other appropriate environments
• Experience of using therapeutic skills, such as CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, Family Work
• Experience of interagency and multidisciplinary working
• Experience of assessing risk and formulating safe and effective risk management plans
• Clinical Supervision / Reflective Practice
• Experience of teaching other professionals
• Experience of management of child protection emergencies
• Experience of therapeutic work with children and families where abuse or neglect has occurred

Desirable

• Experience of audit and/or research
• Experience of contributing to and implementing new service developments

Knowledge

Essential

• Advanced CAMH Social Work knowledge of and application of evidence-based social work practice
• Knowledge of legislation relevant to the Children's Act 2004, Mental Health Act 1983 & Safeguarding Guidelines
• A sound working knowledge and application of relevant professional code, i.e. professional Code of Practice - SWE, BASW
• Knowledge of the legal issues relating to consent and capacity in children and young people.
• An awareness and understanding of the issues facing, children, adolescents and their families
• Knowledge of the various assessment tools used in CAMHS

Skills

Essential

• Mental Health Assessment: Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessments Able to confidently and competently undertake specialist assessments relevant to area of practice Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
• Assessment of risk/safeguarding: Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Engagement: Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of evidence based interventions Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
• Family and parenting work: Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
• Cultural competence: Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
• Consultation and Liaison: Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
• Psychoeducation: Able to promote self-management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
• Interdisciplinary work and partnerships: Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotas, peer support, training and skills development Able to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop
• Transition: Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
• Professional Development: Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills
• Specialist Assessment: Experience of undertaking specialist assessment at a level appropriate to the job Specialist assessment and treatment of specific groups (e.g. Neuro-development disorders)
• Partnerships: Understanding of need for and ability to form effective working partnerships with internal and external partners
• Policy and protocol: Ability to develop and implement clear and robust operational policy and protocol
• Leadership: Ability to lead the development and implementation of new structures and process that impact on staff at all levels

Desirable

• CBT / DBT / Family Therapy / Group Therapy
• Assessment of risk/safeguarding: Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Engagement: Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of evidence based interventions Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
• Family and parenting work: Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support

Other Requirements

Essential

• 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 prioritise own workload
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
• Honesty, enthusiasm and a sense of loyalty
• Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often
• The ability to present and communicate complex information
• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
• Able to manage risk
• A good understanding of, and ability to use, clinical supervision
• A high level of self-awareness and capacity to reflect
• Clinical Recording Systems: Competent in the use of clinical recording systems such as RIO, JADE and COMMIT Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records Understands and is able to use online incident reporting systems.
• Email and Communication: Able to use email to support effective communication in line with WLMHT policy Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

Lakeside MHU (West Mid)

Alliance Crisis Care - CAMHs

Armstrong Way

UB2 4SD

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222-LS-CAMHS-552