Job summary
It is acknowledged that a transition from child to adult services creates risks for young people who may fall through the systems due to not having the right support. This can result in poor mental health and social outcomes, leading to loss of human potential and increased burden on health and social care services over a lifespan.
The aim of the CAMHS Transition post is to support the successful transition of 17-25 years old young people into appropriate mental health services and to enhance the social and mental health outcomes of young people experiencing difficulties as they grow into adulthood.
Main duties of the job
The provision of services will be based upon a belief in the crucial importance of a successful transition for young people to adult mental health services or other services. Appropriate services will treat their mental health services and also be responsive to their wider social and emotional needs.
The post will directly inform and update Transition Protocol between CAMHS and AMHS based upon the latest evidence of best practice.
An additional role is to assess and manage those young people waiting for treatment in the Tier 3 team. The post holder is responsible to manage this caseload and to support overseeing referrals into and the waiting list of the team, as well as ensuring timely referrals and support with transitioning into AMHS.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- To provide leadership to safeguarding issues to CAMHS teams for cases in process of transitions
- To contribute to specialist assessments of young children and their parents/career referred to the services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, an integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
- Support evaluation and decision-making process for transition and treatment interventions taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility contributing towards assessments, discharge and transition of young people to adult mental health services whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carer receive holistic and coordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
- To contribute to risk assessment(s) and risk management(s) for young children and parents/carer.
- Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carer.
- To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy an Information Governance Department.
- To assist CAMHS teams in the coordination of CPA meetings and to participate in patients CPAs and other agency reviews
- To take a lead role in child protection, consulting with and advising colleagues in accordance with policy and legislative frameworks
- To lead on MCA 2005 MHA 1983, Care Act 2014 and safeguarding issues in relation to transition
- To frequently manage complex and emotionally charged meetings with children and families where clients may be hostile, antagonistic or have high expressed emotion.
- To be responsible for managing and prioritizing own workload of children and adolescents involving self-harm
- To be responsible for implementing a range of group work interventions focusing on life skills training, motivational and creative activities, systemic, psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups.
- To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses and adjusting and changing treatment options.
- To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information, for example regarding the experience and effects of anorexia and bulimia on a young persons physical and developmental status.
- To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age appropriate language, being mindful that the information may be unwelcome.
- To be mindful of the needs of children, young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual religious and social backgrounds, and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- To provide leadership to safeguarding issues to CAMHS teams for cases in process of transitions
- To contribute to specialist assessments of young children and their parents/career referred to the services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, an integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
- Support evaluation and decision-making process for transition and treatment interventions taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility contributing towards assessments, discharge and transition of young people to adult mental health services whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carer receive holistic and coordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
- To contribute to risk assessment(s) and risk management(s) for young children and parents/carer.
- Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carer.
- To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy an Information Governance Department.
- To assist CAMHS teams in the coordination of CPA meetings and to participate in patients CPAs and other agency reviews
- To take a lead role in child protection, consulting with and advising colleagues in accordance with policy and legislative frameworks
- To lead on MCA 2005 MHA 1983, Care Act 2014 and safeguarding issues in relation to transition
- To frequently manage complex and emotionally charged meetings with children and families where clients may be hostile, antagonistic or have high expressed emotion.
- To be responsible for managing and prioritizing own workload of children and adolescents involving self-harm
- To be responsible for implementing a range of group work interventions focusing on life skills training, motivational and creative activities, systemic, psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups.
- To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses and adjusting and changing treatment options.
- To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information, for example regarding the experience and effects of anorexia and bulimia on a young persons physical and developmental status.
- To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age appropriate language, being mindful that the information may be unwelcome.
- To be mindful of the needs of children, young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual religious and social backgrounds, and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience
- Significant experience of working with self-harm
- Significant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
- Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups oLeadership experience
- Experience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Providing and receiving supervision
- Establishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy
Desirable
- Experience of transitioning children through services
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
- Psychotherapy/Family training
- Practice Teaching Award
- Experience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
- Conducting service evaluations
- Working collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services
- Work in a range of settings e.g. inpatient, community, residential
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Coaching skills, qualification.
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- First degree in mental health nursing
- Professional registration with NMC
- Evidence of relevant professional development
Desirable
- Further post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
- Supervision training
- An appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training. (e.g. ENB 998 or Practice teachers award
- A postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience
- Significant experience of working with self-harm
- Significant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
- Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups oLeadership experience
- Experience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Providing and receiving supervision
- Establishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy
Desirable
- Experience of transitioning children through services
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
- Psychotherapy/Family training
- Practice Teaching Award
- Experience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
- Conducting service evaluations
- Working collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services
- Work in a range of settings e.g. inpatient, community, residential
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Coaching skills, qualification.
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- First degree in mental health nursing
- Professional registration with NMC
- Evidence of relevant professional development
Desirable
- Further post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
- Supervision training
- An appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training. (e.g. ENB 998 or Practice teachers award
- A postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
