Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people with mental health difficulties or emotional disorders? Harrow CAMHS needs you. We are seeking for an enthusiastic and confident CAMHS Practitioner with a demonstrable track record of working within CAMHS, of providing high quality evidence-based interventions and service improvements.

This role is suitable for a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist with the requisite professional registration. Harrow is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse community, and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working within the richness and complexity of multiculturally diverse context.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified specialist service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. The primary role is to provide direct clinical assessment and treatment to clients and their families.

The post holder will provide advice and consultation to other members of the multidisciplinary teams and clinical and performance management supervision to trainees and less experienced professionals where appropriate and where identified in their Personal Development Plan.

About us

There's a place for you at CNWL.We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide initial CAMHS assessments drawing on professional training and experience and clinical skills as well as appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of evidence based sources including the use of routine outcome measures, rating scales, and semi-structured interviews with clients / families.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal clinical treatment and/or management of emotional and behavioural difficulties of clients, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality and with reference to appropriate clinical guidelines and care pathways (e.g. NICE, CEG).

Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress using CYP-IAPT routine outcome measures and include family members where appropriate

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by standard care plans.

Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others for child and adolescent clients as an ongoing process.

To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly sensitive and complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team.

To develop collaborative and effective working links with colleagues across all sectors including external agencies.

Teaching, training and supervision:

To attend and participate in regular ongoing supervision.

To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team in line with local Quality Improvement projects and service developments.

To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre/post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

To regularly review skills and training needs using the structures of supervision, QI, appraisal and Personal Development Planning (PDP).

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with client groups across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Research and service evaluation:

Using the Trust structures of Care Quality and QI to participate in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the services operational policies and care pathways, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit for understanding and provision of high quality care as required.

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with others as required.

Within the CAMHS ED Service Line structures of Care Quality and QI, to contribute to project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families as required

General:

To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To support the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.

To ensure all mandated and statutory training, professional registration / revalidation, supervision recording, appraisal and development standards are maintained as required within CNWL and the CAMHS ED Service Line.

To adhere to Trust and local policies regarding annual leave, sickness and absence, and codes of conduct within the workplace to maintain a safe, effective and courteous professional environment.

Rider Clause

This is an outline of the post holders duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of the Trust and Department.

Person Specification

Education and qualification

Essential

• Professional qualification in either Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work
• Professional registration with the appropriate recognized body

Desirable

• Recent Safeguarding children training
• Research training
• CYP IAPT training
• ADOS / ADI training
• Non-Medical Prescriber

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS team
• Experience of providing specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment
• Experience of delivering evidence based treatment using a range of modalities in a number of cultural contexts
• Experience of working with a wide variety of age groups, presenting with mental health problems, including children with learning disabilities
• Experience of working within NHS setting

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Supervised experience of other evidence based treatment in relation to children with mental health problems

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of the theoretical evidence base for understanding, formulating and treating children and young people
• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance and as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Experience of assessing mental health risk and safeguarding concerns

Desirable

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of other specialised psychological CAMHS or family treatments
• Knowledge of CAMHS legislation
• Knowledge and experience of research methodology
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Experience of planning and delivery group treatments.

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

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 and meet performance requirements for the role
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
• Honesty, enthusiasm for area of work

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Harrow CAMHS

Ash Tree Clinic

Harrow

HA2 8EQ

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