Team Care Coordinator

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Edgware; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Edgware seeks a CAMHS Practitioner to provide high-quality mental health care to children and adolescents. In this role, you will coordinate care and provide therapeutic assessments while working with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should possess a core mental health qualification and relevant therapeutic training. The position offers a competitive salary range of £44,485 to £52,521 annually with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Qualifications

• Qualification in a core mental health profession with additional therapeutic qualifications.
• Current professional registration as applicable.
• Proven qualities in sustaining mental and emotional demands of therapeutic work.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat children and young people in care routinely.
• Provide psychological advice to other professionals.
• Implement psychological interventions based on client needs.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Evidence of well-developed clinical skills

Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries

Capacity to manage multiple demands in a complex clinical environment

Education

Qualification in a core mental health profession

Current professional registration (NMC, HCPC, etc.)

Training in one of the main therapeutic modalities

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• 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.

Job responsibilities

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 clients care.
2. To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients 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.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualification in a core mental health profession: oNursing (RMN, RGN or RSCN) with additional therapeutic qualifications oClinical or Counselling Psychology (eligible for chartered status) oSystemic Family Psychotherapy oChild & Adolescent Psychotherapy (eligible for full membership of the Association of Child Psychotherapists) oSocial Worker with additional therapeutic qualifications e.g. systemic family therapy or CYP IAPT trainings oFirst level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with additional short course certificate level in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs e.g. CBT, family therapy or equivalent with related CAMHS experience.
• Current professional registration as applicable: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or BABCP
• Training in one of the main therapeutic modalities.
• Relevant training on safeguarding and child protection.

Skills/ Abilities

• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills.
• Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks.
• Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown.
• Ability to manage the multiple demands complex clinical environment
• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS. Understanding of NICE Guidelines for mental health disorders Knowledge of CYP-IAPT and rationale for ROMs Knowledge of legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies.
• Good computer skills and knowledge of patient management systems. Accurate record keeping.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience in family therapy processes.
• Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership.
• Specific knowledge of current issues for Adolescent mental health.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
• Teaching skills in clinical settings

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience of case load management. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of well-developed clinical skills.
• Previous experience of working with young people in a mental health setting.
• Experience of clinical and risk assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Working knowledge and competence in at least one model of therapeutic work (e.g. Systemic, CBT, SFT, Psychodynamic). Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks. Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown. Ability to manage the multiple demands complex clinical environment.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience in setting up and facilitating groups. Experience in family therapy processes. Knowledge of development in inter- agency partnership. Specific knowledge of current issues for Adolescent mental health. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups. Teaching skills in clinical settings

Personal Qualities

• A positive approach to working with children, adolescents and families. Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post. Commitment to equal opportunities. Self-motivated, assertive and flexible

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.

Clinical Lead for Barnet CAMHS care coordinators

£44,485 to £52,521 a yearPer annum including HCAS