CAMHS Practitioner

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; South End; Remote; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust in South End is recruiting for a post within the Family First Service. The role focuses on assessment, treatment and delivering outcomes for children and families with mental health needs, working in collaboration with SET CAMHS and social care.

You’ll provide NICE-concordant interventions, engage with education and other services, and operate within a supportive, safeguarding-aware team environment at NHS Rainham head office. Probationary period applies.

Responsibilities

• Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions.
• Prevent more serious mental health problems in children and young people by early identification of the development of mental health problems.
• Provide NICE concordant therapeutic interventions (parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work) for complex mental health difficulties including neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Work with SET CAMHS and wider systems including education, social care, Acute Hospital and family/carers to formulate strengths, difficulties and the most appropriate treatment plan.
• Experience of complex risk formulation and collaborative safety planning; partnership work across systems around a child or young person with safeguarding concerns.

Job description

An exciting opportunity to work in the Family First Service in South End. This is a joint funded position between SET CAMHS and South End Social care.

The Families First Partnership (FFP) is a national programme transforming how children, young people and families are supported.

Through Families First, we aim to:

• improve outcomes for children and families through earlier, more effective support
• strengthen collaboration between agencies so families experience co-ordinated help
• reduce pressure on crisis services by preventing problems from escalating
• empower families to take an active role in shaping plans and decisions
• use partnership resources more effectively across the system

The post holder will work with the Family First Manager and SET CAMHS Manager to help support the delivery of psychological support. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and deliver of service outcomes. The post holder would require a Professional registration (HCPC/NCM, UKCP/BABCP/AFT/SWE) and/or accreditation.

This post would suit clinicians with experience working with young people who present with mental health disorders, adapting support for young people with neurodevelopment issues and working with the wider systems including education, social care, Acute Hospital, Psychiatric Hospitals and family/carers.

Key Responsibilities and Clinical skills required:

Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the locality team. To prevent more serious mental health problems in children and young people by early identification of the development of mental health problems in children and young people

Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatizing environment, based on the best available research evidence, within clinical governance.

Working alongside other colleagues in SET CAMHS in order to provide an in-depth comprehensive assessment of the child’s, young person’s, and family’s functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and severe and highly complex mental health problems in the family. To formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment plan.

To provide NICE concordant therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work with children and young people) to children and young people with complex mental health difficulties including neurodevelopmental disorders such as autistic spectrum disorders, learning difficulties, ADHD; emotional difficulties, including depression and anxiety states; attachment disorders; conduct disorders, eating disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychosomatic disorders; enuresis/encopresis, aggression, borderline states, self-harming, substance misuse and other behavior potentially dangerous to the child/young person or others.

Experience of complex risk formulation and collaborative safety planning. Experience of partnership working across systems around a child or young person and their family where there are safeguarding and mental health concerns.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

As an inclusive and supportive team applications are welcomed by professionals from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, including mental health nurses, counselling psychologists, clinical psychologists, social workers, art psychotherapists, drama therapists, occupational therapist and other suitably qualified professional staff that meet the person specification and who are currently registered with an appropriate professional body.

Working for Us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by
the best people.