Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinician to join the Neurodevelopmental Team in Tower Hamlets CAMHS. The role focuses on delivering evidence-based care to children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties within a diverse urban borough.

You will work autonomously within a strong quality improvement culture, contributing to audits and appraisal while engaging families, schools, and other professionals to provide holistic care.

Qualifications

• Qualification in appropriate mental health or social welfare profession.
• Registration with your appropriate professional body (UKCP / NMC / HCP etc.).
• Postgraduate qualification (Masters or Doctorate) in relevant field.
• Evidence of continuous professional development per guidelines.
• Autism assessment training (e.g., 3Di, ADOS) and Positive Behaviour Support training.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to young people with learning disabilities.
• Contribute to a multi-disciplinary team in CAMHS and engage with families and schools.
• Utilise group programmes for behavior, sleep, and ASC recent diagnoses.
• Engage in supervision, appraisal and audit to ensure quality of practice.

Education

Mental health/professional qualification (family & systemic psychotherapy / clinical psychologist / etc.)

Registration with professional body (UKCP / NMC / HCP)

Postgraduate qualification (Masters/ Doctorate)

CPD and ongoing professional development

Job description

We are looking for a clinician who is passionate about working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties to come and work in the socially and ethnically diverse borough of Tower Hamlets.

Tower Hamlets CAMHS is a friendly, thriving and innovative service; ELFT has a strong ethos of Quality Improvement, and we are keen to continually develop our service. The service includes professionals from various disciplines including psychiatry, nursing, social workers, psychology, occupational therapy, psychotherapy and family therapy, who come together to provide high-quality holistic care for young people and their families.

Main duties of the job

This is a community-based post, located within the Neurodevelopmental Team in Tower Hamlets CAMHS offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the service. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

The post holder will provide evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatment to young people with moderate to severe Learning Disability. The post holder will bring their clinical knowledge and skills to this team. NDT provide a broad range of evidence-based interventions including an established group programme (supporting behaviour, sleep, and a neuroaffirmative group for young people who have received recent diagnosis of ASC), Positive Behaviour Support, ASC assessment clinic, consultation to CAMHS colleagues and schools, and direct work with children and their families, which the post holder will contribute towards.

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.

You can see what our service users want from you at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrgffzyHck

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

For further information and/or an informal discussion, please contact Dr Farjana Nasrin, NDT Clinical Team Lead - [e-mail].

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
• Registration with your appropriate body (e.g., UKCP, NMC, HCP etc.)
• Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period
• Qualification as a Non-medical Prescriber
• Autism assessment training e.g., 3Di training, ADOS training
• Positive Behaviour Support training

Experience

• Experience of working in CAMHS and/or experience in Adult Services for Learning Disability with clear evidence of transferable skills
• Experience of specialist assessments and treatments for LD and behaviours that challenge
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management Experience of working with children, young people, and families in emotional crisis
• Experience of working with complex networks
• Experience of outcome measures
• 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/knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters
• Experience of group work
• Supervision training and/or experience of supervising others
• Experience of quality improvement and innovative projects
• Experience of ASC assessments

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Specialist clinical skills within specific therapeutic modalities, in particular, Positive Behaviour Support intervention, behavioural/functional analysis
• Evidence of highly specialist clinical skills and knowledge in working with children/young people and/or adults with moderate to severe learning disability
• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
• Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work flexibly according to need
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; at an age-appropriate level, complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers, and professionals within and outside the NHS
• Able to work effectively across organisational boundaries
• Skills in supervising and facilitating the development of skills in others (e.g., through consultation or training)
• A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback
• Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mental health problems/disorders (including young people with moderate to severe Learning Disability, presentations of behaviours of concern, assessment of co-morbid presentations)
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional guidelines
• Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation

Other

• A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback
• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS, including Child Protection Guidelines
• Knowledge of specific inner-city issues which impact on care delivery
• Knowledge of standard setting and quality assurance
• In-depth knowledge and current of CAMHS issues including assessment and interventions
• Knowledge of development in inter agency partnership

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.

£66,274 to £73,496 a yearper annum Inc HCAs