Job summary
Complex Needs Team
Do you have the tenacity and skills to hit the ground running?
Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in Tower Hamlets are evolving and changing, wanting the very best services for our children and young people. We are developing and transforming our local Tower Hamlets CAMHS Service offers with the increased need for working with children and young people with severe and complex mental health needs, often with underlying vulnerabilities and/or contextual adversity and accompanied high risk, requiring more than routine care over a longer period of time.
We are looking for someone like you to expand our CAMHS Complex Needs Team - do you have what it takes?
Main duties of the job
The post holders will be part of a multidisciplinary team conducting comprehensive needs and risk assessments and provide evidence and goal based and outcome-focused interventions to children and young people and families presenting with severe mental health difficulties.
You will have the qualifications and experience to work in a busy and sometimes challenging Tier 3 CAMHS service.
About us
In conjunction with partners in commissioning, health, social care, and education, we are designing an outcome-based service where all provider agencies will work together to provide the highest quality service to our clients. The post will give the successful candidates a unique perspective and ability to work collaboratively across all pathways in TH CAMHS
As a service we embrace continual improvement with staff and the management team having a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement. As part of the new development of our complex needs team, the successful candidate will offer an accessible, flexible, timely and responsive service. Our ethos is to provide the right treatment, at the right time and in the right place for the CYP of Tower Hamlets.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for good communicators who are motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and have the ability to work with complex cases and deliver interventions tailored to the children and young peoples needs, as well as being able to work effectively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts. If you have a flexible and adaptive approach to your work; a commitment to solid evidence-based practice; and strive to give the highest possible quality of service; this post is for YOU!
For more information please contact: Dr Hanspeter Dorner on 0207 426 2400 or via email hanspeter.dorner1@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for good communicators who are motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and have the ability to work with complex cases and deliver interventions tailored to the children and young peoples needs, as well as being able to work effectively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts. If you have a flexible and adaptive approach to your work; a commitment to solid evidence-based practice; and strive to give the highest possible quality of service; this post is for YOU!
For more information please contact: Dr Hanspeter Dorner on 0207 426 2400 or via email hanspeter.dorner1@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant qualification in recognised health/mental health profession e.g. RMN, allied health professions, social work
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration training e.g. Mentorship, Training, CBT, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT) etc.
Knowledge
Essential
- Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families.
- Legislation relating to children & young people
- Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience in mental health
- Experience of assessing and managing risk in service users with complex needs
- Experience of working with children and young people's mental health
Desirable
- Experience of working with young people with acute mental health difficulties in different community settings
- Experience of assessing children and young people who present with complex mental health needs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant qualification in recognised health/mental health profession e.g. RMN, allied health professions, social work
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration training e.g. Mentorship, Training, CBT, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT) etc.
Knowledge
Essential
- Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families.
- Legislation relating to children & young people
- Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience in mental health
- Experience of assessing and managing risk in service users with complex needs
- Experience of working with children and young people's mental health
Desirable
- Experience of working with young people with acute mental health difficulties in different community settings
- Experience of assessing children and young people who present with complex mental health needs
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).
