CAMHS Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum plus HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lewisham, SE13 6QJ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6190016/334-CLI-6190016 |
Summary
The post holder will be a care coordinator responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people who are in care, adopted or cared for under a special guardianship order. Your role will involve interface work with multidisciplinary teams in the wider community/network. You will be responsible of managing your own caseload.
You will carry out risk assessments with children & young people and their families
routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinical
supervisor to manage these situations effectively.
You will be part of the daily duty rota for the service, which involves screening and
managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.
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 that
care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated
efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 75% of your time is spent in clinical practice.
2.5 You may clinically and/or professionally supervise, advise or manage junior members
South London & Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health services to the people of Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham as well as national specialist services. It has a budget of £330 million.
KING S HEALTH PARTNERS ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE (AHSC) The South London and Maudsley, Guy’s and St Thomas and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and King’s College London, are part of King’s Health Partners. King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between
one of the world’s leading research led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org. The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Directorate South London & Maudsley NHS Trust has the largest child and adolescent mental health service in the country.
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.
To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional requirement 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 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 5 - 6) or trainees from any discipline.
Assume responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk.
Work in the community settings including specify here e.g. schools, primary care, hospitals, clinic base or Children’s centre but to regularly visit Children, Young people and their families at home or in other satellite or statutory agency areas as required.
Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMH assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention.
Design, write and share a copy of the care plan with children, young people and their carers.
Carry out the planned intervention with minimal supervision.
Assess safeguarding issues for own case and refer concerns to Child Protection teams.
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024