Site Barking & Dagenham CAMHS
Town: Barking
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata (plus HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/01/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified family therapy practitioner; fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, ACP, AFT), plus an additional post-graduate qualification in Psychotherapeutic Therapies (e.g. CYP IAPT/ post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy). The post-holder will provide specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment, and systematic outcome measurement of CAMHS service users and the clinical supervision of junior clinicians within the team, where required.
They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible, and evidence-based service is available to all service users who require this input, throughout the borough. The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the team. The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include systemic family work, parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term input and specialist psychotherapeutic treatments.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive, and specialist family therapy service for children and adolescents with emotional, behavioural, and mental health issues, along with their carers/parents, and families.
2. Contribute to the multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health issues, including their carers/parents, and families.
3. Undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessments, parenting support, and specialist cases.
4. Contribute to audits and research.
5. Actively participate in treatment and outcome monitoring, utilizing informed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.
6. Work within clinical practice, utilizing supervision, and adhere to the overall framework of CAMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures.
7. Deputise in the absence of the Systemic Family Therapist & Conduct Pathway Lead and delegate tasks to healthcare assistants as needed.
8. Maintain knowledge of Trust protocols and procedures, adhering to them, especially in the administration of medicine and moving and handling.
9. Exercise professional curiosity in daily roles and act upon findings appropriately.
10. Provide both formal and informal supervision to junior staff when necessary.
11. Act as an autonomous professional, fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g., AFT).
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
* Successful completion of a post-graduate training in child and adolescent family therapy
* Eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, BABCP, ACP, AFT, NMC)
Experience
* Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed, or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
* Experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs.
* Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
* Experience of using observation to contribute to assessments of children.
* Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan.
* Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people.
* Experience of initiating, organizing and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
* Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines.
* Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk.
Skills
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients.
* Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
* Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
* Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action.
* Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manager as relevant.
* Ability to plan and organize own workload and time.
Other
* To be able to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics.
* Able to form good working relationships with others in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency settings.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
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