Camhs Practitioner

We have vacancies for suitably qualified and experienced practitioners to work within the Children, Young People and Families Directorate in the CAMHS Central Neuro-Developmental Team, which covers Huntingdon and Fenland districts of Cambridgeshire.

The Neuro-developmental Pathway provides specialist mental health assessment and intervention for children and young people with ADHD, Autistic Spectrum conditions or Learning Disabilities.

You would join a multi-disciplinary team with diverse skills and experience including psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy and speech & language therapy.

You will also provide regular and on-going consultation, joint work, training and advice to other professionals in relation to child and adolescent mental health to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.

The job includes participating in the on-call rota providing mental health risk assessments including a small number of weekends and Bank Holidays.

To provide evidence-based intervention with children, young people and their families / carers anywhere in the Children’s Directorate Community CAMHS. Specifically, the Neuro-developmental team works with children and young people who have ADHD, Autistic Spectrum conditions or a Learning Disability.

Patients will be managed on an outpatient basis; providing a CAMHS assessment and evidence-based therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patient’s mental health care to colleagues and partner agencies and to other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Neuro-developmental Team, providing comprehensive mental health assessments demonstrating the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care., a range of direct work and evidence-based therapeutic intervention. To have the ability to utilize specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young person’s mental health needs.
2. To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based therapeutic programmes on both an individual and group basis to children and young people and their families.
3. To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon mental health theory and evidence and which incorporates developmental interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
4. To evaluate and make treatment decisions in collaboration with the CAMHS Community Team and in consultation with an accredited CAMHS therapist or qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.
5. To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through supervision and care planning.
6. To participate in the team’s use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS.
7. To educate and involve children and young people and family/carers, in their care/support plan and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to assessment and the development of service provision.
8. To be responsible for accepting appropriate referrals, manage and evaluate caseload and manage time accordingly.
9. To attend training opportunities to promote professional practice and skills development in line with professional body requirements.
10. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
11. To participate in the Specialist Practitioner CAMH on-call system as and when required, including some weekend and public holiday 9am-5pm duties via the established rota system.
12. To act as care co