Job summary
We are excited to be recruiting for a CAMHS - Leaving Care post, who will help us expand the support available to care experienced young people in Lincolnshire.
LPFT, Barnardo's Leaving Care Service, NACRO Education Support and Transition (NEST) and Lincolnshire County Council are working in partnership to offer support to staff and young people who are care experienced and/or accessing accommodation via NEST (16 -25 years).
The support will be flexible and adaptable to the mental health and emotional well-being needs of care experienced young people. You will be based with Lincolnshire's Children and Young People (CYP) Complex Needs Service and will work across the county, with a specific focus on supporting and working with Barnardo's Leaving Care workers, and NEST staff. You will be involved in developing an advice, training and consultation offer to the staff to support them in their understanding of a young person's mental health and/or behavioural presentation. You may be required provide assistance to help these young people access relevant emotional well-being and mental health services, or direct assessment and intervention when appropriate.
Please be aware that whilst we are advertising for a permanent post, this role is currently funded until January 2026. If not funded beyond this time, you would be offered a role elsewhere within our Trust Children & Young People's Services.
Main duties of the job
This is not an exhaustive list. To see the main duties in full, please download the job description.
1. To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
2. Provide care delivery to vulnerable groups, inclusive of but not exclusively: young people Leaving Care; young people accessing NEST; mild Learning Disability; those in contact with Criminal Justice System; survivors of abuse; those with harmful behaviour.
3. Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the Leaving Care Service and the NEST services; members of the multi-disciplinary CYP Complex Needs Service; members of CAMHS multi-disciplinary team; members of Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Service; members of Adult mental health services, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
4. Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
5. Provide therapeutic interventions as appropriate within relevant care pathways.
6. Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details.
7. To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
8. Provide care delivery to vulnerable groups, inclusive of but not exclusively:Young People Leaving CareYoung people accessing NEST
Mild Learning DisabilityThose in contact with Criminal Justice System
9. Act as Care Coordinator under the CPA, as required.
10. Workcollaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the Leaving Care Service and the NEST service members of the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency CYP Complex Needs Service; members of CAMHS multi-disciplinary team; members of Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Service; members of Adult mental health services, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
11. Empower Service Users and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
12. Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
13. Work flexibly across the county from a designated base.
14. Provide an extended hours service, as required.
15. Participate in the planning and delivery of group interventions.
16. Provide pre-CAMHS support, advice, consultation, and training to Barnardos Leaving Care Workers and NEST staff.
17. Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider childrens services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment framework and other processes which require working together with other agencies.
18. Proactively involve young people and families in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.
19. Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to young people and families.
20. Work closely with other colleagues within the range of service for CYP and adults to enable effective transitions to and from other services.
21. Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.
22. Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.
23. Develop less experienced staff and provide supervision/line management on all of the above.
24. Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.
25. Chair both clinical and non-clinical meetings, as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
26. Registered with a professional body NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP
27. Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), Social Worker (CQSW, DipSW), Occupational Therapy or other relevant qualification APT qualification and Counselling
Desirable
28. Mentorship or similar qualification in supporting students in practice
29. Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
30. Post registration training in supervision
Experience
Essential
31. Relevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with severe and enduring mental ill health.
32. Relevant experience of working with care experienced young people
33. Experience of managing and developing staff including providing management and/or clinical supervision; providing training and consultation
34. Experience of using evidence based practice
35. Post registration experience of working with children and young people and their families
Desirable
36. Post registration experience of working within CAMHS
37. Post registration experience of working within AMHS
Skills
Essential
38. Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach.
39. Excellent understanding of child and adolescent development and it's possible impact on emotional well-being
Qualifications
Essential
40. Evidence of specialised, continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice