Duty Clinician - CAMHS Practitioner

CNWL; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated Band 6 Duty Clinician for its vibrant CAMHS team in London. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the lives of children and young people by providing essential mental health support. You will be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, responsible for assessing new referrals and managing cases. With a focus on patient-centered care, this position promises a rewarding environment where your skills will be valued and developed. Join a passionate team committed to delivering exceptional care and making a difference in the community.

Benefits

Generous relocation package

Flexible working options

Bank assignments for most roles

Qualifications

• Professional training and relevant CAMHS experience required.
• Experience in assessing and supporting children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Assess new referrals and manage low-risk cases in a multidisciplinary team.
• Provide ongoing clinical support and assessments for emotional wellbeing.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Autonomous Working

Time Management

Communication Skills

Therapeutic Interventions

Education

Professional Registration (NMC, HPC, ACP, UKCP)

First Level Nursing Qualification

CYP-IAPT Therapy Training

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

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We care for you as much as you care for others.

There’s a place for you at CNWL.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Site Kensington and Chelsea Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 13/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS is a very warm & friendly team which welcomes new skills and new ideas. It is part of Central & North West London (CNWL) Foundation Mental Health Trust. We are committed to collaborative multi-disciplinary work and there are very good links with partnership agencies in the borough.

This is an exciting opportunity to part of a busy integrated CAMHS service. We are seeking to recruit a full-time permanent Band 6, Duty Clinician- CAMHS Practitioner based at 1B Beatrice Place, W8 5LW.

We are looking for a suitably qualified and highly motivated individual with a range of assessment skills and significant experience of supporting children, young people and their carers, as well as experience of working with professionals from other agencies.

The candidate will be able to demonstrate a high degree of autonomous working.

Main duties of the job

You will be part of a Duty team responsible for the daily duty system, which involves: assessing all new referrals; responding to telephone queries; case managing low risk cases requiring neurodevelopmental assessment or Goals Based Intervention and supporting the team where necessary.

The post holder will be responsible for operating within a multidisciplinary team, for providing ongoing clinical support and assessment of the child or young people with emotional wellbeing needs (both routine and urgent risk) who access CAMHS.

In addition, you may be required to offer face-to-face follow-up appointments to children and young people who have attended A&E.

You will need to evidence the ability to work to high standards, showing good time management and be able to prioritise your work effectively.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assume responsibility for the daily duty system, particularly ascertaining the level of risk, and agreeing safety plans as and when necessary.
• To participate on the local duty rota providing a more urgent response to issues when required.
• Support to parents and young people seeking help between clinic appointments or when in crisis.
• Provide initial assessments of children and young people referred to the team.
• Use individual, group work, family work, advice and supervision according to the needs of children and young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to planning packages of care.
• Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
• Complete signposting and social prescribing after CAMHS assessments.
• To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is timely, accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on SystmOne.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health Professional's Council (HPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
• First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV with related CAMHS experience: First level qualification in Occupational therapy, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience OR Qualification as a Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist) with relevant CAMHS experience. OR First level qualification in art, play, drama, music therapy or psychotherapy (leading to a registered qualification with one of the above statutory bodies) with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs
• Further post qualifying training and education in working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
• CYP-IAPT Therapy Training
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Training in Clinical supervision
• Research

Previous Experience

• Assessed supervised clinical experience working with children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs or clear evidence of transferable skills
• Working in collaboration with supervisor, service user, carers and MDT in assessing needs, planning and implementing care
• Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment
• A good understanding and some experience of the following: Group, individual and family work, multidisciplinary work, clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision in CAMHS
• Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.
• Relevant research and its application to assessment, treatment and case management of CAMH disorders.
• Research informed and evidence based methods of assessment, treatment and case management.
• Proven ability to work within a changing environment
• Working with families in a multicultural environment
• Working with Looked After Children and foster carers
• Experience in carrying out specialist child and adolescent mental health assessments and treatments

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge and skills in assessment intervention
• A good working knowledge of mental health disorders in children and adolescents
• A good working knowledge of difficulties common to Looked After Children e.g. attachment difficulties
• A good working knowledge of The Children Act 1989, 2004 and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Assessment of risk and management of risk factors
• The principles of clinical governance and practice.
• The principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing.
• Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to take on new concepts/forward thinking
• Good written and verbal presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively by telephone and also by email.
• Basic IT and data entry skills to enter clinical information into databases
• Ability to maintain accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronically and handwritten, which adhere to the CNWL policies

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page