Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6736352
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham CAMHS, Kaleidoscope
- Town
- Lewisham
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 per annum Incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Practitioner
Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The post holder will be a care coordinator responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people whom are referred to the team.
You will carry out risk assessments with children & young people and their families routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinical supervisor to manage these situations effectively.
You will be part of the daily duty rota for the service, which involves screening and managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.
You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 75% of your time is spent in clinical practice.
If you are trained in cognitive behavioural therapy, play therapy, art therapy you may apply for this post and your clinical skills will be an added asset for the Horizon team
Main duties of the job
This role is for the Horizon Generic team, this is a large generic team within Lewisham CAMHS, who provide treatment and assessment.
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.
The successful candidate will be a care coordinator responsible for assessing and treating a range of mental health and significant behavioural difficulties in children and young people whom are referred to the team.
They will carry out risk assessments with children & young people and their families routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinical supervisor to manage these situations effectively. They will also be part of the daily duty rota for the service, which involves screening and managing new referrals, telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.
If successful you will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co-ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation is that 75% of your time is spent in clinical practice.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in the setting and reviewing of therapeutic aims, objectives, standards and strategies to provide a high standard of care to clients.
- To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional requirement standards of record keeping.
- To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS.
- Work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
- Work to assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems.
- To maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of children, young people and their families.
- To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS Teams in terms of referrals and joint work.
- Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
- Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager.
- Supervise junior members of the team (Band 5 - 6) or trainees from any discipline.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- All applicants will require a undergraduate degree or above qualification
- 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 (HPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Desirable criteria
- ENB 998 or mentorship and or equivalent experience and training (Nursing only)
- Further post qualifying training and education in working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed supervised clinical experience working with children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs or clear evidence of transferable skills. Working in collaboration with supervisor, service user, carers and MDT in assessing needs, planning and implementing care
- Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment
- A good understanding and some experience of the following: Group, individual and family work, multi-disciplinary work, clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision in CAMHS
Desirable criteria
- governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision in CAMHS
- Working with Looked After Children and foster carers
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A good working knowledge of the following: Mental health disorders in children and adolescents
- Difficulties common to Looked After Children e.g. attachment difficulties Key legislation relevant to CAMHS setting: The Children Act 1989, 2004 and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005 London Child protection procedures
- Assessment of risk and management of risk factors The principles of clinical governance and practice.
- The principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing
Desirable criteria
- Relevant research and its application to assessment, treatment and case management of CAMH disorders.
- Research informed and evidence based methods of assessment, treatment and case management.
Skills & abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions
- Ability to work under pressure. Ability to take on new concepts/forward thinking
- Good written and verbal presentation skills Basic IT and data entry skills to enter clinical information into databases.
- Ability to work within a changing environment Ability to be ‘reflective’ in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
- Demonstrate an ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Skill in using a specific therapy in practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Justine Rimell
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07805086464
- Additional information
Elaine Pennicott-Banks: [email protected]
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