We have vacancies for suitably qualified and experienced practitioners to work within the Children, Young People and Families Directorate in the CAMHS Central Neuro-Developmental Team, which covers Huntingdon and Fenland districts of Cambridgeshire.

The Neuro-developmental Pathway provides specialist mental health assessment and intervention for children and young people with ADHD, Autistic Spectrum conditions or Learning Disabilities.

Successful candidates will work as CAMHS Practitioners offering full assessments, formulation and evidence based interventions to children, young people and their families, who are experiencing mental health difficulties, in line with local and national guidelines.

You would join a multi-disciplinary team with diverse skills and experience including psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy and speech & language therapy.

You will also provide regular and on-going consultation, joint work, training and advice to other professionals in relation to child and adolescent mental health to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.

The job includes participating in the on-call rota providing mental health risk assessments including a small number of weekends and Bank Holidays.

Main duties of the job

To provide evidence-based intervention with children, young people and their families / carers anywhere in the Children's Directorate Community CAMHS. Specifically, the Neuro-developmental team works with children and young people who have ADHD, Autistic Spectrum conditions or a Learning Disability. Patients will be managed on an outpatient basis; providing a CAMHS assessment and evidence-based therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patient's mental health care to colleagues and partner agencies and to other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

About us

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Neuro-developmental Team, providing comprehensive mental health assessments demonstrating the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care., a range of direct work and evidence-based therapeutic intervention. To have the ability to utilize specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young persons mental health needs.

To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.

To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based therapeutic programmes on both an individual and group basis to children and young people and their families.

To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon mental health theory and evidence and which incorporates developmental interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.

To evaluate and make treatment decisions in collaboration with the CAMHS Community Team and in consultation with an accredited CAMHS therapist or qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.

To be responsible for terminating intervention in consultation with other professionals involved.

To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through supervision and care planning.

To participate in the teams use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS.

To educate and involve children and young people and family/carers, in their care/support plan and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to assessment and the development of service provision.

To contribute to the development of systems for the management of referrals including screening, filtering, redirecting and fast-tracking referrals as appropriate.

To be responsible for accepting appropriate referrals, manage and evaluate caseload and manage time accordingly.

To network and develop partnerships with child and adolescent mental health professionals and other professionals within Social Services, Education, General Practitioners, Health Promotion Agencies, and the Voluntary Sector.

Ability to provide clinical consultation to other professionals on a variety of levels. This will involve consulting and advising on a wide range of issues regarding the mental health needs of children and young people.

To work within the framework of legislation, guidance, policies and procedures relating to young people leaving care, with particular reference to the Children Order (NI) 1995, Children (Leaving Care) Act (NI) 2002 and the Mental Health (NI) Order 1986.

To maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken.

To ensure Trust policy in relation to confidentiality is maintained at all times.

To attend training opportunities to promote professional practice and skills development in line with professional body requirements.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.

To participate in the Specialist Practitioner CAMH on-call system as and when required, including some weekend and public holiday 9am-5pm duties via the established rota system.

To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions

To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.

To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multidisciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.

To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of a mental health assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To assist in the management of the service caseload.

To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.

To contribute to the analysis, development, evaluation and monitoring of the Trusts and Community CAMHS operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

Person Specification Education / Qualifications Essential

• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.

Desirable

• Training in family systems theory and interventions.
• Training in Child Protection
• Training in an evidence based therapeutic intervention recommended by NICE Guidelines relevant to CAMHS, i.e. CBT, IPT, Systemic Therapy
• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy, teaching, or within a psychological therapy.

Experience Essential

• Post-qualification experience in assessment and treatment of children, young people with and families.
• Experience of Multidisciplinary working
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Experience of undertaking mental health risk assessments of children and young people
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health.
• Group work
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
• Experience of working with children with a learning disability and/or autism.

Skills & Abilities Essential

• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to assess and treat children and young people with neuro-developmental disorder and their families
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries. Willingness and ability to participate as an independent practitioner in assessments. Ability to teach, train and supervise
• Evidence of ability to exercise a high level of judgement and decision making.
• Ability to travel between sites and to service user homes when clinically necessary. Evidence of ability to keep clear and accurate clinical records.

Desirable

• Ability to assess and treat children and young people with neuro-developmental disorder and their families

Knowledge & Understanding Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of Child and Adolescent Mental health
• Knowledge and understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Sound knowledge of the Trust's and Local Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
• Good organisational skills
• Motivated towards personal and professional development.
• An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.

Other Essential

• Ability to work flexible hours. Willingness and ability to work as part of on-call rota, including roster-based weekend duties.

Desirable

• Ability to travel across the county and to various locations on short notice

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