Highly Specialist CAMHS Clinician - AMHT

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will join an, experienced, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians who provide a range of mental health assessment and treatment services to children, young people and their families. The post holder will take a leadership role within the team, including the possibility of some supervision and line management, as well as service development. The post holder will provide comprehensive assessments for children and young people who have severe mental illness. Assessments may be carried out jointly with MDT colleagues and include at risk mental state assessments, family assessments and standardized assessments (such as the cognitive assessements, if trained or CAARMS assessment) where indicated. The clinician will also provide evidence based interventions for children, young people and their families including individual, systemic, family intervention, physical helath monitoring and medication administration (if trained).

The post holder will be an experienced CAMHS practitioner with a substantial knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health, especially in the areas of adolescent mental health and crisis / risk management. They will be expected to contribute to the operational delivery of the AMHT and to be responsible for the supervision/management of band 7 staff as directed by the Clinical Team Lead.

The post holder will possess leadership skills, strong engagement skills, the ability to work creatively in relation to severe enduring mental illness, and work effectively with complex multi-agency networks. We are opening out the post to a range of CAMHS professional disciplines including family therapy, nursing, clinical or educational psychology, child psychotherapy, occupational therapy and social work as we value a diverse MDT for supporting the complexities of this client population. It would be highly desirable for applicants to have some experience of working with children with enduring mental helath problems and also have experience of working and/or consulting in child and adolescent tier 4 inpatient units.

A high standard of clinical supervision will be provided by an experienced clinician from the post holders professional discipline. We will support individuals to develop specialist assessment and intervention skills and pursue specific areas of interest, including service development projects where appropriate. We welcome applicants who enjoy working effectively as part of a team, have competencies in working with families from diverse cultures and ethnicities, and have a commitment to delivering high quality, evidence based practice. Service user participation and shared decision making is embedded within our service.

For more details please contact Dr Sarah Nyame Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Clinical Team Lead, AMHT.

sarah.nyame@nhs.net

02032225600

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification in appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Clinical/Educational/Counselling Psychology, Child Psychotherapy, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Family Therapy.
• Registration with relevant UK governing body.
• Relevant supervision training
• Relevant post-graduate qualification in child and adolescent mental health (e.g. ENB 603, appropriate degree, years one and two family therapy or equivalent).
• Experience and/or training in working with clients within a CAMHS setting.

Desirable

• ENB 998/97(preparation for mentorship) or relevant CAMHS additional training.
• Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. systemic therapies, neuropsychology, CBT, Family Intervention. Evidence based group work e.g. DBT

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working in CAMHS
• Experience at Band 7 or equivalent
• Experience of working specifically with adolescent mental health
• Experience of working with a high level of mental health difficulty
• Experience of line managing junior staff.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• The previous experience consulting and joint working with professionals from other services
• Experience of service development, audit and quality improvement

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of well- developed individual clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS.
• Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments.
• Specialist clinical skills within in specific therapeutic modalities.
• Teaching skills, both in clinical setting and education centres.
• Skills in the use of Information Technology and electronic patient record systems.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Systemic work.

Knowledge

Essential

• A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback.
• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS.
• In depth knowledge of CAMHS assessment and interventions.
• Knowledge of the principals of Care Programme Approach (CPA)
• Knowledge of KPIs, standard setting and audit implementation
• An awareness of different research methods
• Awareness of approaches to addressing population physical and mental health including Community psychology

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

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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).

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

SS C&H CAMHS Adolescent Mental Health Team

15 Homerton Row

LONDON

E9 6ED

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)