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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To work as a member of the CPFT YOUnited Team and wider partnership YOUnited Referral Hub, providing screening of referrals, information gathering and consultation to referring agencies, young people and their families and/or carers.
2. To utilise specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young person's mental health needs and how their needs would most appropriately be met.
3. To assess clinical risk based on information available and additional information gathered, and to prioritise accordingly.
4. To develop formulation of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon mental health theory and evidence and which incorporates developmental interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
5. To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people referred to the service.
6. To maintain awareness of the resources of the core, neuro-developmental and eating disorders pathways in main Community CAMHS, and the administrative systems for booking appointments in those teams.
7. To work alongside Community CAMHS to ensure that waiting time standards are met.
8. To contribute to the development of systems for managing referrals including screening, filtering, re-directing and expediting referrals as appropriate.
9. To follow the Standard Operating Procedures of the YOUnited Referral Hub team.
10. To network and develop partnerships with CAMH professionals and other professionals within Social Care, Education, Early Help services, General Practitioners, Child Health services, Health Promotion agencies and the Voluntary / Independent sector.
11. To work within the framework of legislation, guidance, policies and procedures relating to the Children's Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
12. To maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken.
13. To ensure that Trust policy in relation to confidentiality and consent is adhered to at all times.
14. To attend training opportunities to enhance professional practice and skill development, in line with professional body requirements.
15. To participate in the CAMHS on-call system as and when required.
16. To work as an integral member of the Assessment Team, providing comprehensive mental health assessments demonstrating the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, a range of direct work and evidence-based therapeutic intervention.
17. To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through supervision and care planning.
18. To participate in the team's use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS.
19. To educate and involve children and young people and family/carers, in their care/support plan and provide opportunities for service users to contribute to assessment and the development of service provision.
20. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
21. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
22. To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of a mental health assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To assist in the management of the service caseload.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
* A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level: nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
Desirable criteria
* Training in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention recommended by NICE Guidelines relevant to CAMHS, i.e. CBT, IPT, Systemic Therapy.
* Other relevant certificated training
* Evidence of on-going CPD activity
Experience
Essential criteria
* Post-qualification experience in assessment and treatment with children, young people and families using evidence-based therapeutic intervention.
* Experience of working in a role and setting relevant to CAMHS
* Experience working with systems around the young person, e.g. family, schools.
Desirable criteria
* Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place which demonstrate clinical outcomes
* Experience of managing a clinical caseload
* Experience of multi-agency or multi-disciplinary working
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework
* Experience of triaging CAMHS referrals
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
* Advanced interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills
* Skills in conducting clinical risk assessments with young people in crisis
* Skills in at least one recognised therapeutic approach used in CAMH services
* Evidence of ability to exercise a high level of judgement and decision-making
* Evidence of ability to keep clear and accurate clinical records
Desirable criteria
* Ability to teach, train and supervise others.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a team
* Good personal organisational skills
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
* Motivated towards personal and professional development
* Knowledge of a range of clinical conditions typically presenting to CAMH services
* Knowledge of a range of therapeutic modalities used in CAMH services
Desirable criteria
* Sound knowledge of the Trust's and Local Safeguarding policy and procedures
* Awareness of systems of service delivery and pathways in a community CAMHS
Other
Essential criteria
* Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
* Willingness to embrace integrated models and new ways of working
* Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
* Ability to work flexible hours if required
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children and young people's mental health services;
* Children's community services in Peterborough;
* Social care;
* Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
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