Job summary
Band 8a Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner Primary LEAP
O.6 WTE 3 days a week, 12 months Fixed Term. Secondment applications welcomed.
All disciplines welcome to apply: Psychotherapist/psychologist/Nurse/Family Therapist and Creative Therapist
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced senior CAMHS clinician to make a significant difference to the lives of young people and their families in Tower Hamlets Borough. We are looking for someone with excellent assessment and therapeutic skills for 4-11-year-olds and their families combined with the communication skills required to navigate the challenges of interagency work involving complex psycho-social contexts.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose is to take a senior role in mental health practice in the newly commissioned Primary LEAP assessment base and provide liaison between CAMHS and LEAP. This role will be supervised by the Mental Health Lead for all LEAP sites currently successfully established in the secondary provisions. This is a clinical post primarily based in Primary LEAP with Tower Hamlets CAMHS providing direct management, clinical supervision and multi-disciplinary team support including access to wider assessment and treatment pathways.
About us
London East Alternative Provision (LEAP) is an inner city, successful and high-achieving alternative provision located in Tower Hamlets. Working in partnership with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) this is a CAMHS clinical role across agencies providing mental health expertise, intervention and supporting whole school development for a new specialist LEAP primary provision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Direct clinical work in this role will be providing comprehensive and specialist mental health assessment and treatment for 411-year-olds and their families and carers who may be likely to present with significant levels of distress and dysfunction.
The successful candidate will work with all staff in the Primary LEAP site to develop and maintain a whole school approach to emotional health and wellbeing. A key component will be sharing knowledge and understanding with the staff group, children and families around working with attachment theory, early and latency child development, trauma and neurodevelopment.
If you would like any further information about this post, please contact Richard Simmonds, Tower Hamlets CAMHS Psychological Therapies Lead, richard.simmonds1@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Direct clinical work in this role will be providing comprehensive and specialist mental health assessment and treatment for 411-year-olds and their families and carers who may be likely to present with significant levels of distress and dysfunction.
The successful candidate will work with all staff in the Primary LEAP site to develop and maintain a whole school approach to emotional health and wellbeing. A key component will be sharing knowledge and understanding with the staff group, children and families around working with attachment theory, early and latency child development, trauma and neurodevelopment.
If you would like any further information about this post, please contact Richard Simmonds, Tower Hamlets CAMHS Psychological Therapies Lead, richard.simmonds1@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification in appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Family Therapy or Psychotherapy and registration with relevant UK governing body.
Desirable
- Parenting qualification and parenting supervision qualification.
- Specific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. CBT, DBT, IPT etc.
- Management or leadership training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a clinical post in CAMHS
- Previous experience of supervising clinicians and operational leadership functions
- Previous experience working with schools in mental health capacity.
- Experience of working with a wide range of mental health problems commonly seen in CAMHS
Desirable
- Delivery of parenting programmes - Webster-Stratton, Triple P, NVR etc.
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse inner city area
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
- Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
- Specialist clinical skills within in specific therapeutic modalities
- Proficiency in non-verbal and creative engagement and therapeutic skills.
- Teaching skills, both in clinical setting and education centres
- Keyboard/computer skills
- Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS
- An awareness of different research methods
Desirable
- Knowledge of development in inter agency partnership
- Able to deliver "state of mind" assessments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification in appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Family Therapy or Psychotherapy and registration with relevant UK governing body.
Desirable
- Parenting qualification and parenting supervision qualification.
- Specific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. CBT, DBT, IPT etc.
- Management or leadership training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a clinical post in CAMHS
- Previous experience of supervising clinicians and operational leadership functions
- Previous experience working with schools in mental health capacity.
- Experience of working with a wide range of mental health problems commonly seen in CAMHS
Desirable
- Delivery of parenting programmes - Webster-Stratton, Triple P, NVR etc.
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse inner city area
Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
- Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
- Specialist clinical skills within in specific therapeutic modalities
- Proficiency in non-verbal and creative engagement and therapeutic skills.
- Teaching skills, both in clinical setting and education centres
- Keyboard/computer skills
- Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS
- An awareness of different research methods
Desirable
- Knowledge of development in inter agency partnership
- Able to deliver "state of mind" assessments
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
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).
