CAMHS Practitioner – Senior Duty Clinician Band 7 | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE11 6JJ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6196638/334-CLI-6001990-A |
Summary
Job Overview
Lambeth CAMHS is looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Duty Practitioner for our Lighthouse Team. This is an exciting time to join the team, which is currently expanding its offer to children, young people and their families.
Job Purpose
You will be one of a team of three Clinicians and will be responsible for the daily CAMHS duty system. This includes screening and managing new referrals to the service. A key part of this is contacting children, young people and/or their families within 28 days of the referral, and offering brief advice and safety planning. You will also respond to urgent queries when a named care coordinator is not available. You may also be required to offer face-to face and video appointments to children and young people and a caseload as the service develops.
An understanding of different mental health disorders, risk assessment and safety planning is essential for this post. Applicants must hold registration with a statutory body, as detailed in the person specification.
Working Pattern
The post is full time permanent Monday to Friday predominately within normal working hours however the successful candidate may be required
to have a degree of flexibility to meet the service needs
Work location
The role will be predominately based at Lambeth CAMHS with some opportunity to work from home as agreed with the team lead. Lambeth
CAMHS is situated close to Vauxhall and Kennington stations.
You will join a team of three Clinicians and will be responsible for the daily CAMHS duty system. This involves: screening and managing all new referrals; carrying out telephone triage, advice, and safety planning to children, young people and their families. This includes telephone follow up to children and young people who have attended A& E. You will respond to telephone queries and support colleagues in the team and wider service as needed.
In addition, you may be required to offer face-to-face or video appointments to children and young people and to manage a caseload as needed by the service.
In the absence of the named care coordinator, you may be required to provide cover.
You will share responsibility for ensuring the team achieves positive clinical outcomes for children, young people and their families and that these are evidenced by performance indicators such as activity data, targets and quality measures. The Lighthouse Team has particular responsibility for targets on waiting times, ensuring service users are contacted within 28 days. You will be required to participate in audit, evaluation and research as needed.
You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure care plans for individual children and services across agencies are coordinated efficiently and effectively.
LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
Lambeth has a population of 317,800 (GLA 2020). Lambeth’s population is highly diverse, a characteristic visible in the breadth of ethnic and cultural traditions seen throughout the borough. It is estimated that 63% of the population describe their ethnicity as other than White British; 23% describe their ethnicity as Black (11% Black African, 7% Black Caribbean and 5% Other Black), 22% White Other and 6%as Asian. The Annual population survey estimates that a third of Lambeth’s residents are non-UK born. Of these non-UK born, 40% are of wider European origin, 20% are of African origin; and 20% of Central or South American origin. Nearly 150 languages are spoken as the first language in the homes of Lambeth school children. Portuguese, Spanish and Somali, are the most commonly spoken other languages in Lambeth.
BENEFITS
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.
There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLAM. It’s
important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer. This includes:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave
• Work life balance,
• Career development
• Car lease
• Accommodation
• NHS discounts,
• Counselling services
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
Service and Team responsibilities
• Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in the setting and reviewing of therapeutic aims, objectives, standards and strategies to provide a high standard of care to clients and their families.
• To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is timely, accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS.
• Work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
• Work to assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems.
• To maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of children, young people and their families.
• To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS Teams in terms of referrals and joint work. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication within the boundaries of confidentiality, with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
• Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager.
• Supervise junior members of the team (Band 6) or trainees from any discipline.
Clinical - Individual
• Assume responsibility for the daily duty system, particularly ascertaining the level of risk, and agreeing safety plans as and when necessary.
• Use individual, group work, family work, advice and supervision according to the needs of children and young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to planning packages of care.
• Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
• Contribute to service development and take a lead on audit within the duty team
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024