Specialist Practitioner (CAMHS Children in Care)

Navigocare; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Navigo is seeking a compassionate Specialist Practitioner for their CAMHS team, focusing on children in care. The role involves providing expert assessments and interventions, working with multidisciplinary teams, and requires relevant professional qualifications and extensive experience in mental health care. Join a leading enterprise known for its innovative approach to mental health services in North East Lincolnshire.

Qualifications

• Registered with relevant statutory body (e.g. NMC, HCPC).
• Extensive post-registration experience delivering evidence-based interventions.
• Expertise in working with looked after children and psychological needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions for children in care.
• Consult with multidisciplinary teams to support psychological needs.
• Develop risk management plans and monitor patients' progress.

Skills

Trauma-informed approach

Multi-agency collaboration

Consultation and training

Education

Professional Health or Social Care qualification

Degree level education

Post graduate learning in CAMHS

Additional therapy qualifications (DDP, EMDR, etc.)

Job description

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Practitioner within YoungMinds Matter (CAMHS) children in care team. We are looking for a compassionateand enthusiastic individual with experience working with children and youngpeople in foster care and residential settings. Expertise in partnershipworking as part of a multi-agency approach, and experience in deliveringspecialist attachment interventions is desirable.

Therole is suitable for an experienced Social Worker, Mental Health Nurse, ChildPsychotherapist, Applied Psychologist, or Systemic Psychotherapist.

Main duties of the job

The role will involveproviding specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions for children andyoung people in foster care or residential children's homes.

The postholder will berequired to develop psychologically informed formulations to supportappropriate placement recommendations as part of a multi-agency approach.

The post involves theprovision of consultation, supervision, and training for other professionals.

About us

Hello!

Weare Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health andwell-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental healthservices to the NHS and beyond.

Thewhole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for ourown family to use.

Weoffer a range of mental health services, including acute and communityfacilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adultsinpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and anoutstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Rankedas one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companiestop 100 large company list.

Asa social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have alsodeveloped income-generating commercially viable businesses that providetraining, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby GardenCentre.

Workingat Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but wereally mean it.

Welike to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Comeand Join us !

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Job responsibilities

To providespecialist assessments and therapeutic interventions for young people who arelooked after by the local authority, and to care leavers, including childrenand young people living in residential childrens homes and foster placements.

Tocontribute to complex decision making around the childs emotional wellbeingand mental health needs within their placement.

To provideregular consultations to the team of professionals around the child to ensurethe childs psychological needs are well understood and to support others inmeeting the childs needs.

To providepsychological support to children and families who are experiencing (or haveexperienced) serious emotional trauma, bereavement, relationship difficultiesor placement disruption, and also to provide support to parents, carers andstaff working with such clients.

To workautonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around thechild, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to otheragencies/ professionals such as local authority social workers.

Tofacilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinkingwithin complex networks supporting looked after children and care leavers.

To providewritten summaries and reports to the multidisciplinary team around the childfollowing assessment and consultation.

To providead-hoc support and advice to local authority staff and carers.

Beresponsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered andappropriately collated.

Tocontribute to service development work.

To provideclinical and managerial supervision to less experienced staff.

To assessand monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To providegeneral advice to other professionals on risk assessment and management.

Tocommunicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning theassessment, formulation and treatment plans, and to monitor and evaluateprogress during the course of care.

Person Specification

Additional Requirements

• Ability to tolerate multiple accounts of traumatic histories and manage the emotional impact appropriately.

Knowledge

• Demonstrate specialist knowledge and expertise in working with highly vulnerable and traumatised children and young people.
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area i.e. (NICE Guidelines on Attachment Disorder, Looked After Children).

Qualifications

• Professional Health or Social Care qualification and registered with appropriate clinical professional body/ organisation (e.g. Social Work, Nursing, or Psychology (Educational, Counselling, Clinical or Forensic) and be registered with the relevant statutory body (e.g. NMC, HCPC, ACP, BABCP, UKCP, SWE, or BACP).
• Educated to degree level or equivalent as required for registration with professional body.
• Evidence of formal post graduate learning within a relevant CAMHS field or skill.
• Additional therapy qualifications (e.g., DDP, EMDR, family therapy or systemic practice).

Experience

• Demonstrate extensive post-registration experience and expertise delivering evidence based / best practice clinical interventions.
• Experience of working with looked after children and the systems that support Children & Young People.
• Experience of providing specialist consultation/ training and advice to partner agencies.
• Expertise in applying a trauma informed approach to working with children in care.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.

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.