Generic Team Care Coordinator

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership development

Flexible working

NHS pension

Staff network

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust (Barnet CAMHS) is recruiting a CAMHS practitioner to provide specialist assessments and therapeutic input for children and young people with mental health and neurodevelopmental needs. The role involves care coordination, supervision of juniors, and collaboration with a network of professionals to deliver integrated care.

You will contribute to planning and delivering evidence-based interventions, use the THRIVE framework to guide needs-led care, and work under

Qualifications

• Clinical role with time spent in direct practice
• Supervision of junior members and trainees
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary CAMHS colleagues

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments for children and young people referred to the CAMHS team.
• Plan and implement formal psychological treatment and management of mental health problems in clients.
• Deliver psychological interventions to individuals, carers, families and groups.
• Evaluate treatment options considering theoretical and clinical factors.
• Discharge planning and responsibility for clients managed by standard care plans.
• Provide specialist psychological guidance to other professionals contributing to formulations and treatment plans.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Barnet CAMHS as CAMHS practitioner. This is role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality care and support to young people with a range of mental health and neurodevelopment conditions. The post hold would be expected to work as care coordinator to children and young people with a range of needs including neurodevelopmental and mental health who are waiting for an assessment or a therapeutic intervention. The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service. The role will also involve liaising with clinicians with the service and external services to support and stabilise a young person and their family, manage risks and promote integration into academic and social settings. Barnet CAMHS use the THRIVE Framework when thinking about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families. The Framework is needs-led and are defined by the children, young people and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision making. The post sits predominantly sits within the Getting Help and Getting More Help needs based grouping of the Framework. However, Getting Advice and Getting Risk Support are also relevant within the role. The post holder will act as care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively. You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice. You will offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non- psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedure. You will also clinically and/or professionally supervise, advise or manage junior members and trainees of the team. The post holder will utilise research skills for QI and make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care pathways. North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy: 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

1. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
2. To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
3. To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.