CAMHS Practitioner | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum including Outer London Allowance |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | Barnet, HA8 0AD |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6309498/306-BEH-1777-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Barnet CAMHS as CAMHS practitioner. This is role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality mental health care to support young people with neurodevelopment disorders and their families. The post hold would be expected to work as care coordinator to children with learning disability and children waiting for ADHD assessment.
The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service.
Barnet CAMHS use the THRIVE Framework when thinking about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families. The Framework is needs-led and are defined by the children, young people and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision making. The post sits predominantly sits within the Getting Help and Getting More Help needs based grouping of the Framework. However, Getting Advice and Getting Risk Support are also relevant within the role.
The post holder will act as care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.
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 of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.
You will offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non- psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working
autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedure. You will also clinically and/or professionally supervise, advise or manage junior members and trainees of the team.
The post holder will utilise research skills for QI and make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care pathways.
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.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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 client’s care.
1. To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual
framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
1. To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
1. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning
historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
1. To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care
1. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment
1. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems / challenging
1. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk
1. To act as care coordinator, where no other team member is involved, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of
1. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, 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
1. To maintain 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 of the BPS and Trust policies and procedures
1. To take part in the duty rota for emergency assessments as agreed with the team
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 May 2024