Highly Specialist CAMHS ADHD Practitioner

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in London is seeking two Highly Specialist CAMHS ADHD Practitioners to join a multidisciplinary team. This role involves conducting assessments and delivering clinical interventions for children with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions. Candidates must have significant experience in mental health, particularly with children, and be registered with a relevant professional body. This position offers a supportive environment and opportunities for continuous professional development.

Benefits

Supportive team environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience in delivering specialist ADHD interventions.
• Experience of working with children and young people in a therapeutic context.
• Registration with appropriate professional body.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist assessments for children with ADHD.
• Offer clinical interventions based on evidence-based practices.
• Support and supervise junior clinical staff.

Skills

Experience with ADHD

Mental health assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical supervision

Education

Qualification in relevant mental health profession

Evidence of continuous professional development

Job description

Highly Specialist CAMHS ADHD Practitioner

We are seeking two enthusiastic and creative Highly Specialist CAMHS ADHD Practitioners with considerable Neurodevelopmental CAMHS experience, to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Newham. This post is open to applicants from all of the core professions: Psychology, Family Therapy, Psychotherapy, Nursing, Social Work and Occupational Therapy.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and vibrant multidisciplinary child and adolescent mental health team. There is a strong culture of support for staff with a number of reflective group spaces, in addition to supervision, such as the Challenging Race and Inequalities group. New ideas and innovative practice are welcomed and our thriving service user participation group works collaboratively with staff to develop projects. We encourage staff proactively to access learning and teaching opportunities within CAMHS and the wider NHS Trust, as well as on accredited courses.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for applicants who has experience and appreciation of some of the richness and complexities of working within an inter-culturally community. This post is part of a comprehensive Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, within the East London NHS Foundation Trust. This is a community based post in Newham CAMHS to work with the Neurodevelopmental Team (NDT).

The post holder will be expected to conduct specialist CAMHS assessments for children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, in particular ADHD, offering evidenced based clinical interventions.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

The post holders would directly contribute to and support a positive working environment with the Multidisciplinary team and expected to offer supervision and management to more junior clinical staff (band 7 and below). This is a community-based post, which also requires a high degree of professional autonomy and self management. The post holder will receive clinical supervision from someone within the same professional discipline.

Newham CAMHS is a large and vibrant specialist child and adolescent mental health service with a reputation for innovation and flexibility in meeting the complex mental health support needs of Newham's children, young people and families. It is centrally located on one site in Plaistow, Newham, and provides an extensive and growing range of services including multi-disciplinary specialist teams such as the Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Adolescent Mental Health Team, Paediatric Liaison Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, Looked After Children Team and Social Care/Families First Team. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines (approximately 50 whole time equivalent clinical staff) and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. The service undertakes considerable outreach and consultation work and training.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

• Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession including: Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical or Counselling Psychologist / Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health or LD) / Psychotherapist/ Occupational Therapist / Social Worker
• Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g. BSc, Masters or Doctorate
• Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period.
• Registration with your appropriate body (e.g. UKCP, NMC, HCP etc.)
• Qualification as a Non-medical Prescriber

Experience

• Substantial experience at Band 7 or 8a in delivering specialist ADHD and mental health assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people, and their families, with significant and complex Neurodevelopmental problems in CAMHS
• Substantial experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context and with complex networks
• Substantial experience of working with children with ADHD, learning disability and/or autism, challenging behaviour, their families and wider networks
• Substantial experience of working with a wide variety of patient/client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Substantial experience of working with children and young people in an emotionally demanding environment
• Substantial experience with working with children and young people and their families in a therapeutic context
• Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues and serious mental health problems, including challenging behaviour
• Experience, skills and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Experience of working with families in severe crisis
• Experience of teaching and training
• Experience of providing supervision
• Experience of group work

Knowledge and Skills

• Masters or Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology consistent with and relevant to CAMHS practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional guidelines
• Knowledge of and skill in using a wide variety of CAMH theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
• Knowledge of Neurodevelopmental conditions, in particular ADHD, and skill in using suitable interventions with this client group.
• Sufficient knowledge of other modalities to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients
• Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation , and ethical issues, including The Children Act, and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management
• Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
• Knowledge of current developments in CAMHS and of guidelines and recommendations of assessment and intervention with children and adolescents with significant mental health difficulties.
• Acquaintance with parenting literature

Other

• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others
• Working to local and national protocol and guidelines
• Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
• Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures
• Ability to endure prolonged periods of concentration for extended client therapy sessions.
• Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial period of working time
• Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

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.