CAMHS Practitioner (YOS)

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Haringey Youth Offending Service:

Do you have the ambition and drive to join the team in taking Haringey Youth Offending Service forward, providing effective interventions that produce positive outcomes for young people, families, and communities? We are seeking someone with a track record of performing to a high standard in preventing offending and reoffending.

We are seeking a highly motivated and suitably experienced CAMHS Practitioner interested in working with children and adolescents presenting with a range of complex mental health needs. Working across both Haringey CAMHS Generic Team and Haringey Youth Offending Service, the successful applicant will have an aptitude and strong interest in Youth Justice, engaging collaboratively and creatively alongside colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and wider service. You will contribute to clinical supervision and training, in line with your experience and job plan.

Main duties of the job

Assume clinical responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk.
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 mental health assessments, 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.
Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention offer.
To work autonomously and participate in the delivery and development of patient centred, evidence-based care as appropriate, using a range of advanced skills and knowledge for patients with both diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Assess safeguarding issues and refer concerns to Child Protection teams.

About us

Haringey Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS):

Haringey CAMHS is a lively and creative service with a skilled and committed staff group working in a culturally diverse borough . The population in Haringey is also socio-economically diverse, with areas of relative affluence and deprivation in the borough.

Haringey is one of three borough-based CAMHS services in Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health (BEH) Trust and a CYP-IAPT site. The service is currently in the process of rethinking the way mental health and emotional wellbeing need is responded to locally, in line with the principles of the I Thrive model. This is an exciting time to join the service, as we further develop our clinical offer and care pathways to meet referred need. We are keen to recruit a Family & Systemic Psychotherapist with energy and commitment to contribute to these developments.

You will be offered regular clinical supervision from Haringey CAMHS. You will join the regular MDT team meetings and there are opportunities to participate in Trust wide discipline forums and CPD. The Trust will support flexible working hours where appropriate.

We would particularly interested in candidates with Family Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy qualifications.

We are also open to consider this post as a job-share.

For an informal discussion about this post Please contact Chipo Sambani, Team Manager on 0208 702 3400 or Chipo.Sambani@nhs.net

Date posted

20 September 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£45,024 to £50,806 a year per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

306-HAR061-GR-D

Job locations

Haringey Youth Offending Service

38 Station Road

London

N22 7BF

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

First degree in a field relevant to mental health care and professional registration.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

Demonstrable experience in working in CAMHS services for at least 5 years post qualification.
Experiencing of working in partnership with other agencies. Understanding of and ability to manage

Desirable

Experience of working in a youth justice Setting

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential

Case management skills
Managing risk and complex situations
Time management skills
Ability to remain professional and courteous when under pressure
Working within an MDT effectively
Ability to work with young people where the diagnosis is unclear and there may be differing views throughout the network on this

Desirable

Experienced in delivering group work

Person Specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

First degree in a field relevant to mental health care and professional registration.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

Demonstrable experience in working in CAMHS services for at least 5 years post qualification.
Experiencing of working in partnership with other agencies. Understanding of and ability to manage

Desirable

Experience of working in a youth justice Setting

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential

Case management skills
Managing risk and complex situations
Time management skills
Ability to remain professional and courteous when under pressure
Working within an MDT effectively
Ability to work with young people where the diagnosis is unclear and there may be differing views throughout the network on this

Desirable

Experienced in delivering group work

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).