Core Camhs Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 clinician to work within Boston Core Child and Adolescent Mental health service (CAMHS).

The role is a full time(9-5 Mon-Fri) 37.5 hours (part time hours/job share can be considered)

You will work as part of a well-established highly skilled multi-disciplinary team you must be a compassionate, organised, team player with excellent communication skills and effective time management skills. You will ideally have some experience in clinical assessment, care planning and clinical decision making skills around risk management. You will be required to be accountable for your own caseload management and will identify evidence based therapeutic interventions which you will joint work with staff within the team to deliver. Your enthusiasm and motivation are just as important as your experience as full training can be provided for a successful applicant this role is also an opportunity for someone looking for their first developmental band 6 role.

You will receive regular management and clinical supervision, there are opportunities to access development/training opportunities if they arise in the duration of the post.

You will be able to travel independently around Boston, Spalding and Skegness.

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

Provide care delivery to vulnerable groups, inclusive of but not exclusively:
Mild Learning Disability

Looked After Children

Survivors of abuse

Act as Care Coordinator under the CPA under the supervision of line manager.

Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.

Empower patients and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.

Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.

Provide therapeutic interventions reflective of CYP IAPT, within relevant care pathways.

Provide an extended hours service, as required.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

To provide a high standard of specialist clinical care to children and young people, providing safe and effective evidence based treatment within defined clinical pathways.

To provide support via liaison, consultation and training to universal services including the provision of a professional advice telephone line.

To provide, assessment planning, and implementation of care and monitor effectiveness of interventions to children and young people presenting with mental health difficulties, including vulnerable groups. Care Co-ordination under supervision of line manager.

Provide group and individual therapy.