CAMHS Practitioner- Youth Justice Service Liaison

The Methodist Church in Britain; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development

Supervision from CAMHS and Youth Quest

Established team

Job summary

KC CAMHS and the Youth Justice Service are recruiting a practitioner to coordinate care for children and young people in the youth justice system. The role involves holding a caseload, delivering direct clinical interventions, and working across CAMHS and youth justice settings with 80% time in either service and some out-of-hours work.

Applicants should have a postgraduate health or social care qualification, a clinical supervisor qualification, and post-qualification CYPS/CAMHS training, plus

Qualifications

• Postgraduate-level professional health or social care qualification.
• Clinical supervisor qualification.
• Formal postgraduate learning in a CYPS or CAMHS setting.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate care and manage cases for children and young people in the youth justice system.
• Co-work with Youth Justice Service staff and co-hold risks to young people known to the service.
• Deliver direct clinical interventions to young people and their families.
• Provide assessment, early intervention and referral to primary and secondary health services.
• Link CAMHS and the youth justice service, keeping both CAMHS and youth offending perspectives.
• Develop systems so that young people entering the youth justice system have their mental health needs addressed.
• Build assessment and health planning systems for a whole-systems approach to healthcare for this client group.
• Ensure access to mental and physical health services for youth in the justice system.

Skills

Case coordination

Clinical interventions

Youth justice

Education

Postgraduate health or social care qualification

Clinical supervisor qualification

CYPS/CAMHS postgraduate training

Job description

This practitioner post sits within KC CAMHS and its Youth Justice Service. The work centres on co-ordinating care for young people in the youth justice system, holding a caseload and delivering direct clinical interventions. Working from KC CAMHS or the youth justice service for at least 80% of time, with out-of-hours work expected, the role links the two services. Fit depends on a postgraduate health or social care qualification and current registration with a regulated body.

What the job involves

• Co-ordinate care and manage cases for children and young people in the youth justice system
• Co-work with Youth Justice Service staff and co-hold risks to young people known to the service
• Deliver direct clinical interventions to young people and their families
• Provide assessment, early intervention and referral to primary and secondary health services
• Link CAMHS and the youth justice service, keeping both the CAMHS perspective and the youth offending context
• Manage expectations of service delivery with Youth Justice Service colleagues in the local authority
• Develop systems so that young people entering the youth justice system have their mental health needs addressed
• Build assessment and health planning systems for a whole-systems approach to healthcare for this client group
• Ensure young people in contact with the youth justice system have the same access to mental and physical health services as other young people
• Work with local agencies and private and voluntary sector partners
• Complete clinical work within CAMHS and contribute to wider CAMHS initiatives

What’s required

Qualifications

• Postgraduate-level professional health or social care qualification
• Clinical supervisor qualification
• Formal postgraduate learning in a CYPS or CAMHS setting

Registration & licences

• Current registration with a regulated professional body (eg HCPC, NMC)

Experience

• Extensive post-qualification experience of specialist, evidence-based clinical interventions
• Extensive CAMHS care co-ordination for highly vulnerable young people with complex, multi-agency needs
• Assessing and managing high clinical risk, including risk assessments and safety planning
• Delivering clinical supervision, consultation and clinical leadership to staff
• Working with young people involved in the youth offending system

Skills & knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of legislation and national policy on mental health, youth offending and learning disability
• Multi-agency therapeutic working, safeguarding and joint care planning
• Specialist knowledge of parental mental health or learning disability issues
• Routine outcome measurement and evaluation against expected outcomes
• Knowledge of equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
• Excellent verbal and written communication, report writing and multidisciplinary working

Other

• Flexible, out-of-hours and unpredictable working as CAMHS management requires, and attendance at mandatory and statutory training

Nice to have

• CYP IAPT training
• Post-qualification training in teaching and supervision
• Recent safeguarding children training
• Robust clinical knowledge of adult mental health problems
• Theoretical and practical knowledge significantly beyond expected professional core levels
• Lived experience of the justice system
• Valid UK driving licence and use of own transport for business purposes

What’s offered

• Training and development given high priority
• Supervision from supervisors in both CAMHS and the Youth Justice Service
• Established and supportive team