Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

East London NHS Foundation Trust ,
London, Greater London
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Specialist Services Directorate Newham CAMHS/Newham Childrens Services Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner 4 WTE Band 8a We are recruiting to 4 WTE, Permanent 37.5 hours weekly per Full Time Post We are looking for four 1.0 WTE highly specialist clinicians with backgrounds in clinical or counselling psychology/systemic psychotherapy/child and adolescent psychotherapy/mental health nursing to work as embedded clinicians within Newham Childrens Services. Children's social care at Newham is on a journey of transformation that will put people at the heart of everything we do and create opportunities for everyone. Newhams improvement journey is well underway and they are looking for exceptional talent to contribute and make a real difference to the lives of our children and young people. The Newham together Model is a strengths-focused, relational approach to childrens social work informed by systemic principles. The posts will form part of a well-established embedded CAMHS service, within Newham Childrens Services, which maintains strong links with the local Newham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and promotes understanding of mental health in the work of social care staff. You will be an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated clinician with a passion for working in the community with young people and their families. You will be working as an embedded clinician within Newham Childrens Services, providing input to teams across childrens social care such as the Complex Safeguarding Hub, and Edge of Care team and/or Newhams Early help offer. You will be responsible for providing highly specialist mental health input into one of the service areas, as well as working together as a CAMHS embedded team to provide a program of workshops, training and groups to social care staff, young people and their families. This is an exciting innovative opportunity to develop an embedded CAMHS service within social care teams. Your remit will be to provide first class input to Newham Childrens Services. Your role will involve supporting social care staff in developing their skills and confidence in working to improve the emotional and mental well-being of young people and their families. You will ensure a highly visible presence within the service in which you will be a primary clinician, attending team meetings, providing consultations and training and engage in joint-working with social workers and families. In addition, you will provide a high quality evidence-based mental health and systemic psychotherapy service to the young people and their families who are accessing support from this team. This will involve providing clinical assessment including risk assessment and evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Direct clinical work can include individual work, parent and family work, group work and other evidence based interventions. As a highly specialist clinician you will have detailed knowledge and experience of working with highly complex cases and will be confident in the assessment and treatment of young people and families with complex needs. This will include extensive experience in managing high risk populations and in assessing risk and developing and implementing safety plans. You will be confident in sharing this to staff working with these populations in Newham Childrens Services. As a member of the wider embedded CAMHS team you will also develop and contribute to a cross-discipline resource which will be able to provide a more substantial program of interventions to both Childrens Services staff, as well as young people and their families. This can include staff development training, parenting workshops and groups. Although the majority of the week will be spent within childrens services you will also maintain strong links with Newham CFCS. You will have a regular, weekly presence (a minimum of one session a week) in the Core CAMHS service where you will access supervision and Line Management and participate in the wider CAMHS staff business meetings and CPD programme. Newham CAMHS is a multi-disciplinary team with a Care Pathway model of service delivery. The team consists of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, specialist mental health nurses, psychotherapists, family therapists and administrative staff who are committed to developing innovative and effective ways of working. This is a busy, interesting, and varied job working with children, families and the wider network. You will call upon a broad range of skills and experience to work alongside social workers, other professionals and with a wide array of children, young people and their families with complex presentations and mental health difficulties. We will provide an interesting and supportive work environment, with good training and supervision provided through the CAMHS LBN Childrens Services Pathway within Newham CAMHS. The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at worki

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