CAMHS Liaison and Diversion Practitioner | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 Per annum including Outer London Allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Wood Green, N22 7BF |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6183468/306-BEH-1850 |
Summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to join a warm, welcoming and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centred and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties and offending behaviour? Haringey & Enfield CAMHS and the Youth Justice Service is looking for experienced clinician to join Haringey & Enfield Youth Justice Service, multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will provide a service from the custody suite at Wood Green Police station. They will need to attend other sites for meetings and supervision, as directed by their clinical supervisor and operational leads within BEH CAMHS. The post holder will ensure that when a young person, who has been arrested they will have access to a mental health professional who will be able to provide an assessment and link the young person with the relevant community services.
The post holder will identify young people 10 - 18 years old(or 18 years old CAMHS service users in transition to adult services)who are referred with concerns around: mental health disorders; neurodevelopmental conditions; learning disability; and substance misuse when they first encounter the criminal justice system.
Where appropriate, the post holder will refer or signpost onto appropriate health or social care or enable them to be diverted away from the criminal justice system into a more appropriate setting, if required. L&D services aim to improve overall health outcomes for people and to support people in the reduction of re-offending. It also aims to identify vulnerabilities in people earlier on which reduces the likelihood that people will reach a crisis-point and helps to ensure the right support can be put in place from the start.
The post holder will screen and assess young people in Custody Suites, Court or community settings to provide consultation and undertake assessments on young people and offer an early and short-term intervention if required and/or signpost complex cases to a range of primary and secondary health care services including specialist CAMHS.
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
• Day to day responsibility for care of children & young people, in carrying out the role
• Assessment of problems that require analysis and/or interpretation
• To carry out comprehensive risk assessments and develop risk plans where necessary
• Review the mental health status of all children and young people in police custody in accordance with the National Healthy Child Programme
• To develop a system to ensure all service users have an appropriate and monitored treatment plan
• To develop and coordinate the role to support uptake of mainstream services including GP, education, and health.
• To maintain a caseload of appropriate clients and to monitor any identified health needs and act when appropriate
• To use and record relevant outcome measures with young people
• To support the movement of service users through the Criminal Justice System mental health pathway, by: Screening for mental health needs in custody suites; liaising with the courts about children held overnight and produced in court.
• To include the clients wider support networks, family, and carers wherever possible and appropriate in the care-plan process
• To liaise with YJS CAMHS Practitioner when children currently supervised by YJS are screened
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024