Job overview
To provide a specialist family and systemic service within CAMHS to Neurodiverse young people and their families. This is a 22 month fixed term community-based post, located within the Emotional & Behavioural Team in City and Hackney Specialist CAMHS offering episodes of care, assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
Key Relationships
- Children, young people and their families
- Clinical Team Leader – E&BT
- General Manager CAMHS
- Associate Clinical Director CAMHS
- Senior Management Team of CAMHS
- Multidisciplinary colleagues in E&B CAMHS and wider CAMHS team
- Other professionals working with children and young people in social services, health, education, youth justice system and the voluntary sector
- Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T etc
- SAFE project leads
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the attached JD and Person Spec
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist family and systemic service within CAMHS to Neurodiverse young people and their families. This is a 22 month fixed term community-based post, located within the Emotional & Behavioural Team in City and Hackney Specialist CAMHS offering episodes of care, assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will be apart of the SAFE project within the service.
The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the JD and Person Spec.
The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary child and adolescent mental health team. There is a strong commitment to clinical supervision and professional development within CAMHS and the wider NHS Foundation Trust including many learning and teaching opportunities.
Person specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Family Therapy qualification
- Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or AFT agreed equivalent
- UKCP Registered
- Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in CAMHS
- Experience of working with (assessment, formulation and treating) a wide range of CAMHS clinical presentations
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of working with children, young people and families in emotional crisis
- Experience of care planning and delivering episodes of evidence-based interventions
- Experience, skills and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
- Experience of working with partner agencies to support children and young people
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse area and inner-city area, and delivering culturally sensitive care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working providing modified interventions for children and young people who may have mental health needs in the context of neurovariance
- Experience of delivering brief, consultative interventions
Knowlege and Skills
Essential criteria
- A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback
- Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS (such as Child Protection Guidelines, THRIVE Framework, Green Paper) and relevant legislation (e.g., Children’s Act)
- In depth knowledge of CAMHS issues including assessment and interventions
- Knowledge of standard setting and audit implementation
- Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS assessments evidence-based interventions
- Evidence of clinical skills required to work with children and young people with mental health needs in the context of neurovariance
- Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
- Able to manage own time and caseload
- Basic computer skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Commitment to equal opportunities
- Self-motivated, assertive and flexible
- Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed children, adolescents and their families/carer networks
- Freedom to act: Physical effort: Confined sitting position(therapy); travelling within community
- Mental effort: writing reports; planning teaching; concentrating for therapy sessions /clinical supervision; managing psychiatric emergencies; precise accuracy when administering medication (for nurses)
- Emotional effort: Dealing with families in breakdown; experiencing trauma and abuse; occasional patient complaints; conveying of unwelcome news Working conditions: Occasional verbal and physical abuse; unpredictable clinical scenarios e.g., emergency home visits; travel in community all weathers.
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