Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of an innovative and supportive CAMHS Learning Disabilities Team.
We are looking for a highly skilled clinician to join us within our CAMHS LD team working across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. This post is a 30-hour post.
The ideal candidate would be someone who likes to have diversity in their job, is interested in working with young people and their families with complex difficulties, and who likes to think creatively and flexibly about what therapeutic interventions would be useful and effective for young people with learning disabilities.
The CAMHS team is a strong and supportive team and has excellent structures to offer regular supervision and has a strong ethos of delivering high-quality evidence-based psychological therapies and interventions.
You will be working within a wider CAMHS multi-disciplinary team. No two days will be the same, so flexibility, problem-solving skills, and a desire to make a difference are all vital for this role. The team works closely with the local special schools and colleagues from social care, as well as local paediatric services.
Main duties of the job
You will be a qualified professional with current registration with a relevant professional body. You will hold a caseload of young people with complex mental health needs and will take responsibility for providing assessments and therapeutic treatment programmes for these CYP. You will care-coordinate a number of young people on your caseload. You will carry out risk assessments appropriate for children and young people with a learning disability and monitor and evaluate interventions using outcome measures.
You will have a proven ability to liaise with and work in collaboration with other relevant agencies according to the needs of the young person. You will promote and maintain good working relationships and effective communication through liaison with service users, colleagues, and other professionals.
You will operate in any appropriate settings including CAMHS bases, schools, family homes, and residential homes. Occasional working within highly emotional environments with families and staff groups will require a high degree of self-awareness and effective communication skills at all levels.
You will work flexible hours to ensure the service can operate effectively to meet individual needs.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer:
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
* Flexible and agile working opportunities
* Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
* Wide range of supportive staff networks
* Health and wellbeing opportunities
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Job responsibilities
The postholder will:
* Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
* Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
* Hold continuing responsibility and effective management of the learning disability pathway caseload in CAMHS, ensuring recovery-focused specialist health interventions are delivered to children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health needs in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Assist in monitoring the appropriateness of referrals in relation to service access criteria, and monitor/develop the child service offered.
* Assess the mental health/behavioural needs and deliver therapeutic interventions with young people and their families, using approaches such as functional and developmental assessment, Positive Behaviour Support and family/parenting work.
* Act as a key worker for an individual caseload.
* Within their sphere of competence, be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of the children, young people, and/or vulnerable adults for whom they are responsible or may come into contact with.
* Facilitate/teach effective systems to carers/parents to enable the transfer of skills required to maintain positive management of behaviours.
* Deliver consultation to other professionals and agencies.
* Work with complex individuals and groups to prevent relapse of mental health and behaviours that challenge.
* Support generic CAMHS staff in learning disability-related issues.
* Promote knowledge of mental health and the prevention of mental health illness with children and young people, members of the public, and families.
* Review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and the staff appraisal system.
* Promote and maintain good working relationships and effective communication through liaison with service users, colleagues, and other professionals.
* Carry out risk assessments appropriate for children and young people with a learning disability.
* Monitor and evaluate interventions using outcome measures.
* Develop, monitor, and audit standards of practice to ensure compliance with best practice.
* Design and deliver training to carers and education staff; team members; colleagues in the trust; and a variety of other agencies.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to challenge poor behaviour
* A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
* Ability to praise and be supportive to others
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
* Appropriate and adaptable verbal and written communication
* Good time management and organisational skills
* Good listening and interpersonal skills
* Able to design and deliver training to others (e.g. multi-agency groups)
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance and make use of clinical supervision
* Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information
Experience
* Extensive post-registration experience working with children and young people with learning disabilities and behavioural/mental health needs that challenge services
* Experience of assessment and delivery of therapeutic interventions with young people with learning disabilities and their families
* Provision of consultation to other agencies around learning disability issues
* Assessment and management of risk
Knowledge
* Good working knowledge of behavioural/mental health issues in LD CAMHS work
* Knowledge of approaches to assessment and intervention with young people with learning disabilities and their families
* Good knowledge of safeguarding issues
Additional Criteria
* Committed to team working
* Able to work on a flexible basis
* Ability to work independently
* Awareness of personal strengths and limitations
* Acknowledge and respect difference
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role
Qualifications
* Postgraduate qualification relevant to child and adolescent mental health and learning disabilities or relevant further training
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at the point of offer.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
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