CAHMS Practitioner - Band 6

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; United States; Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST's Community Access Service (CAS) is seeking an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join a team focused on improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in schools and the community.

You will deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people across multiple education settings, aiming to increase early access and availability to services, with a hybrid model of direct face-to-face and remote delivery.

Responsibilities

• Assess and deliver outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions for children, young people and parents with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Work in partnership to support children, young people and families and develop intervention plans with agreed outcomes.
• Assess risk to self and others and adhere to referral protocols.
• Provide information and support for evidence-based CBT and guided self-help, via face-to-face, telephone, or other media.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings and maintain coherent records of activity as required.
• Support and empower service users and carers with inclusive, values-based care.

Job description

• Assess and deliver outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions to children, young people and parents experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Working in partnership, support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families
• Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
• Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about intervention.
• Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
• Undertake assessment of risk to self and others, where appropriate.
• Adhere to the service referral protocols and signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.
• Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, Low Intensity CBT and guided self-help in approach. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
• Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or CYP in treatment, where appropriate.
• Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service

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.

In line with Trust policy, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face to face and remote working as appropriate.

The service embraces continual improvement and wellbeing of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.

Are you an enthusiastic, flexible and self-motivated individual who is willing to make a real difference in young people's mental health? Are you passionate about providing excellent quality care, team working and ready for a new challenge? Are you motivated, possess excellent communication and organisational skills? Then you are the person we are looking for!

The Community Access Service (CAS) are excited to offer the opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join our team. The CAS is an established team that has a strong ethos of improving the mental health and well-being of children and young people in schools and in the community. The post provides an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence - based interventions for children and young people working across multiple education settings and aims to increase early access and availability to services.

The Community Access Service have the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. There is a specific focus on developing more access to helping and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools. Working alongside community partners the CAS will be fully integrated with the community which includes educational settings and GP Surgeries.