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NHS Jobs; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a CAMHS specialist to provide emergency assessment, intensive treatment, and outreach for children and young people in crisis, contributing to preventing hospital admissions and ensuring timely discharges where needed.

The role involves safeguarding, collaboration with universal services, and working within a governance-aware, service-improvement culture.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist CAMHS assessment and intensive treatments for children and young people in crisis.
• Provide time-limited therapy and interventions to the most complex cases.
• Manage a caseload with robust assessment, care planning and onward referrals.
• Collaborate with universal services and Residential CAMHS to ensure coordinated care.
• Support safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.
• Utilise IT systems to collect, store securely and protect data.
• Participate in clinical audit and governance processes.

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments. The post holder will provide an emergency assessment and intensive treatment and outreach response to children and young people with mental health needs. To provide a timely access to specialist services for children and young people that present in crisis or who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and /or others, and outreach to those that are difficult to engage, providing intensive support where required to meet identified need contributing to the prevention of admission to residential provision and also the facilitation of timely discharge from residential provision. To look after and insure the safe keeping of equipment and materials used by self in the execution of this post. To promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.

KEY RESULT AREAS

1. 1 To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system and being party to the development of the Emergency Assessment, Intensive Treatment Response and Outreach element of the Specialist CAMHS portfolio in line with the service specification implementation plans and commissioner investment.
2. 2 To provide specialist assessment, intensive interventions, time limited therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need.
3. 3 To provide an immediate specialist assessment response to children and young people in crisis and those who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and /or others and the development of an associated care plan
4. 4 To be responsible for managing a caseload ensuring robust assessment, care planning, interventions and therapy, onward referral and through-care as appropriate. Caseload Management.
5. 5 To support and be involved in, as required the, transportation of service users to identified areas of care.
6. 6 To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision.
7. 7 To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners.
8. 8 To work collaboratively with Universal Services and Residential CAMHS providers to provide coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and targeted groups.
9. 9 To use a range of Information Technology systems ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially.
10. 10 To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical incidents are reported.
11. 11 To comply with both clinical and corporate governance frameworks.
12. 12 To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
13. 13 To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.
14. 14 To support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service improvement and redesign.
15. 15 To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework.
16. 16 To provide consultation and supervision to other service providers and partner agencies as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families.
17. 17 To identify and communicate any concerns through relevant management processes.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents. We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form. At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK.