Job summary
The post holder will contribute with senior colleagues to the development of the Under 5's community service as appropriate.
You will complete assessments and treatment in accordance with the clinical and evidence-based models that are delivered within the service.
You will manage your own caseload and provide specialist parent & child and group interventions to children and families with moderate to complex presentations.
You will be required to keep up to date clinical records and may be required to prepare court reports.
You will have some specific responsibilities for operational procedures referral response and processing.
You will work in partnership with Social Services, Parental mental Health/Perinatal, Adult Mental Health, Children's Centres, Child Health and key partner to support integrated practice and service delivery.
You will offer consultation and advice to partner agencies and to the professional networks around a child and family.
You may be expected to clinically and/or professionally supervise or advise junior members and trainees of the team.
You may be required to contribute to audit or progress reports on specific aspects of the service developments.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to operational systems for referrals to the service, delivering appropriate treatments.
Supervise and support CAMHS practitioners as required to maximise their assessment & therapeutic skills across the range of treatments required to treat the client group.
Share day to day responsibility for the quality of delivery of clinical care in the service.
Support the clinical lead in recommending the allocation of clinical work and operating an agreed system of caseload management.
Manage day to day clinical risks and clinically advise team members on courses of action. Ensure that team members follow systems of safe practice and that operational policies are adhered to.
Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS, SLAM & professional requirement standards of record keeping. Ensure that data and information on clinical activity is collected and entered onto ePJS.
Contribute to the effective functioning of the team taking responsibilities within the clinical service as appropriate and negotiated with senior colleagues.
Attend and represent the work at appropriate clinical meetings relating to the service as appropriate within and outside the service.
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Job description
Job responsibilities
skills across the range of treatments required to treat the client group.
Share day to day responsibility for the quality of delivery of clinical care in the service.
Support the clinical lead in recommending the allocation of clinical work and operating an agreed system of caseload management.
Manage day to day clinical risks and clinically advise team members on courses of action. Ensure that team members follow systems of safe practice and that operational policies are adhered to.
Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS, SLAM & professional requirement standards of record keeping. Ensure that data and information on clinical activity is collected and entered onto ePJS.
Contribute to the effective functioning of the team taking responsibilities within the clinical service as appropriate and negotiated with senior colleagues.
Ensure that the staff and service take account of service user views in their day to day practice and are respectful of diversity.
Implement new service protocols or service interventions.
Assist in recruitment to vacancies and the induction of new staff to all posts within the team, according to relevant procedures.
Ensure that conditions of service and HR procedures are followed within the Team, including monitoring of annual leave and staff activity.
Attend and represent the work at appropriate clinical meetings relating to the service as appropriate within and outside the service.
Ensure that any legislation and statutory requirements are complied with and implemented throughout the team/section.
Communication
Good communication skills are required in order to communicate with staff of all levels and from a variety of disciplines within SLaM and partner agencies.
Ability to promote partnership working between Primary and Secondary care, Local Authority, Voluntary and Statutory agencies, and the independent sector
Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with patients, relatives and carers, where there may be barriers to understanding. Ability to deal effectively with patient or carer concerns, complaints and anxieties as they arise.
To ensure due regard to given customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients, carers and their relatives.
Maintain a high standard of verbal and written communication to provide continuity of care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professional's Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). Relevant professional training will include: First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV with related CAMHS experience or any as below: oFirst level qualification in Occupational therapy, Nursing, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience. oQualification as a Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist) with relevant CAMHS experience. oFirst level qualification in art, play, drama, music therapy or psychotherapy (leading to a registered qualification with one of the above statutory bodies) with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs.
Desirable
2. Training in Clinical supervision
3. Further post qualifying training and education in working with 0-4s, children and adolescents with mental health problems.
4. ENB 998 or mentorship and or equivalent experience and training (Nursing only)
Experience
Essential
5. Experience and ability to function as a specialist practitioner in infant/child and adolescent mental health
6. Experience of working as a care coordinator in child and adolescents mental health
7. Evidence of good practice in child and adolescent mental health assessments, assessments of behaviour and performance, family functioning
8. Experience in carrying out specialist child and adolescent mental health assessments and treatments for under 5s population.
9. Evidence of providing CAMHS interventions in group, individual and family work, multidisciplinary work.
Desirable
10. Working with families in a multi-racial urban environment.
Skills
Essential
11. Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions
12. Ability to work under pressure.
13. Ability to take on new concepts/forward thinking
14. Good written and verbal presentation skills
15. Ability to work within a changing environment Ability to be 'reflective' in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
Desirable
16. Leadership skills
17. Skills in negotiating & Influencing others
18. Evidence of organisational skills to deliver targets and meet deadlines
19. Proven ability to work within a changing environment