Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Service runs from 8.30 am to 6pm Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm on Friday)
- Job ref
- 277-6291876-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highpoint House
- Town
- Greenwich
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
This post is based in the experienced and established multidisciplinary Generic Team in Greenwich CAMHS.
The role includes the following: providing a qualified clinical psychology (or equivalent) service for children, young people and their families up to 18 years old; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy; undertaking goal-based case management; supervising the clinical work of assistant psychologists, trainees and other professionals; and offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation.
Main duties of the job
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To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
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To gate keep all referrals to inpatient services to test their suitability for home treatment as an alternative to admission.
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To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multi- disciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
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To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability.
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To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
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To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
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To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
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To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.
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You will work closely with colleagues within the crisis team, borough CAMHS services and wider colleagues across the South London Partnership. In addition, there will be opportunity to work closely with acute trust and social care colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
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To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
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To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to the multi-agency network.
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To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
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To gate keep all referrals to inpatient services to test their suitability for home treatment as an alternative to admission.
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To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
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To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability.
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To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
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To provide phone advice to people in crisis.
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To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
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To carry out assessments of mental capacity as required to do so.
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To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
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To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.
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To work extended hours within a two shift system over seven days per week.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- RN Mental Health/CQSW/CSS/DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification/Dip
- Specialist training in a subject/skill relevant to Child & and Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years)
- CYP IAPT Dip in CBT/SFP/IPT-A
- Registration with relevant Professional body
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 2 years post registration experience in a setting where mental health is the primary focus some of which should have been in a CAMHS setting.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate risk/care plans to meet the needs of clients.
- Ability to work to standards for quality within the Service.
- Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team and demonstrate awareness of MDT functioning.
- Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area
- Willingness and ability to develop specialist knowledge of clinical aspects of child & adolescent mental health.
- Ability to recognise own limits & seek support re supervision as appropriate.
- To have developed computer skills to enable input of relevant data and typing of summaries and reports etc
- The ability to supervise, teach and develop the skills of student nurses/social workers/OT’s and junior staff as appropriate
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills. Interview /references Interview /references Interview Application /interview Interview Interview Interview Interview
- Good interpersonal skills & demonstrable ability to work flexibly and respectfully with others.
- Ability to analyse risk and respond appropriately, seeking support as necessary
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
- Babajide Laleye
- Job title
- CAHMS Crisis Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 31855545
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