Specialist Practitioner (CAMHS Children in Care)

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

Job summary

An exciting opportunity with NHS for a Specialist Practitioner within the YoungMinds Matter (CAMHS) team. The role involves delivering assessments and therapeutic support to children in care, with a focus on a multi-agency approach. Candidates should have a professional health or social care qualification and experience working with vulnerable children.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration with a clinical professional body.
• Evidence of extensive post-registration experience.
• Experience with looked after children.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions.
• Develop psychologically informed formulations.
• Facilitate consultations and contribute to multi-agency discussions.

Skills

Compassion

Enthusiasm

Partnership working

Psychological formulation

Trauma-informed approach

Education

Professional Health or Social Care qualification

Degree level education

Postgraduate learning in CAMHS

Additional therapy qualifications (DDP, EMDR, etc.)

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Practitioner within YoungMinds Matter (CAMHS) children in care team. We are looking for a compassionate and enthusiastic individual with experience working with children and young people in foster care and residential settings. Expertise in partnership working as part of a multi-agency approach, and experience in delivering specialist attachment interventions is desirable.

The role is suitable for an experienced Social Worker, Mental Health Nurse, Child Psychotherapist, Applied Psychologist, or Systemic Psychotherapist.

Main duties of the job

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

The postholder will be required to develop psychologically informed formulations to support appropriate placement recommendations as part of a multi-agency approach.

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

About us

Hello!

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

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health, and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education, and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.

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

Come and Join us!

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Job responsibilities

To provide specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions for young people who are looked after by the local authority, and to care leavers, including children and young people living in residential children's homes and foster placements.

To contribute to complex decision-making around the child's emotional wellbeing and mental health needs within their placement.

To provide regular consultations to the team of professionals around the child to ensure the child's psychological needs are well understood and to support others in meeting the child's needs.

To provide psychological support to children and families who are experiencing (or have experienced) serious emotional trauma, bereavement, relationship difficulties, or placement disruption, and also to provide support to parents, carers, and staff working with such clients.

To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support, and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers.

To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting looked after children and care leavers.

To provide written summaries and reports to the multidisciplinary team around the child following assessment and consultation.

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

To be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated.

To contribute to service development work.

To provide clinical and managerial supervision to less experienced staff.

To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To provide general advice to other professionals on risk assessment and management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans, and to monitor and evaluate progress 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, e.g., NICE Guidelines on Attachment Disorder, Looked After Children.

Qualifications

• Professional Health or Social Care qualification and registered with appropriate clinical professional body/organization (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 a professional body.
• Evidence of formal postgraduate 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.