Senior CAMHS Practitioner - CAS

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused healthcare provider in the UK seeks passionate CAMHS professionals to deliver a comprehensive Early Intervention service for young people's mental health. Applicants are expected to hold relevant qualifications such as Mental Health Nurse or Psychotherapist and have proven experience in CAMHS. The role involves providing consultations, assessments, and interventions and may include opportunities for supervisor training. This is a community-based role aimed at improving access to mental health services for all young people.

Qualifications

• Must have experience working in CAMHS.
• Experience with a wide range of mental health problems is necessary.
• Previous community role experience in mental health is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive consultations and assessments for young people.
• Provide interventions for emotional and mental health difficulties.
• Clinically supervise colleagues and support their development.

Skills

Well-developed clinical skills in CAMHS

Specialist clinical skills in specific therapeutic modalities

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to manage own time and caseload

Education

Qualification as Mental Health Nurse, Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Psychologist, etc.

At least two years post-qualification experience

Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies

Parenting qualification and supervision qualification

Specific therapeutic modality training (e.g. CBT, DBT)

Job description

You would be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMH service, delivering a substantial stepped model of care following the needs-led i-Thrive framework. There are a number of posts across the whole of Central Bedfordshire. Your role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system changes with the aim of the whole community approaches to supporting young people's mental health. These are newly funded roles that are community based, whose aim is to offer an Early Intervention service for Young People whose complexities cannot be served by our 5 Mental health in Support Teams but do not reach the threshold for core CAMHS. You will be providing comprehensive consultations, assessments, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties. The post-holder will also clinically supervise colleagues. There may be an option of supervisor training at Reading University which we would strongly encourage post holders to take up.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for confident CAMHS professionals with a demonstrable track record, within CAMHS, of providing good quality evidence-based interventions and improving service quality. You will be a Mental Health Nurse, Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Psychologist, Arts Psychotherapist, Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist, Counsellor or Occupational Therapist with the requisite professional registration. We welcome applicants who have experience of working or living in Central Bedfordshire.

There is a national focus on increasing the reach of Early Intervention for Children and Young People with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. In line with the recently published NHS 10 Year Plan we have an ambition to increase more access to early Intervention to all Young people in Central Bedfordshire and improve the general culture of emotional support to all Young people and their families. Working alongside community partners and our Mental Health Support Teams your team will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.

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

For further information regarding this post, please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this advert.

For further details / informal visits contact: Chloe Wright, Operational Lead, [e-mail] 01525 638614

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A qualification of Mental Health Nurse, Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Clinical Psychologist, Art Psychotherapist, Social Work, Child Psychotherapist, Occupational Therapist, CBT Therapist & Registration, Councillor
• at least two year's post qualification experience.
• Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies/practices relating to Mental Health and Services and understands the Child Protection Policy.
• Parenting qualification and parenting supervision qualification.
• Specific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. CBT, DBT, IPT

Experience

• Previous experience of working in CAMHS
• Experience of working with a wide range of mental health problems commonly seen in CAMHS
• Experience of care planning
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary way
• Delivery of parenting programmes - Webster-Stratton, Triple P, NVR etc.
• Previous experience working in a community role in mental health capacity.
• Experience of working with a culturally diverse population

Skills

• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
• Specialist clinical skills within in specific therapeutic modalities
• Able to manage own time and caseload
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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.