Camhs Practitioner Learning Disability

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The post holder will provide a specialist service within CAMHS to young people with learning disabilities and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the Learning Disabilities Pathway in Brent CAMHS offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments within a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework, the main aim of which will be to enhance the quality of life of the children and their families, and reduce challenging behaviour. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team and will be required to deliver assessments and interventions in Brent. The post holder will also deliver training to other professionals and agencies as relevant.

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The post holder will provide specialist assessments and interventions to children and young people. This will involve undertaking direct assessment and intervention with the client and indirect assessment, monitoring and intervention with staff and/or carers. Intervention will include working across a variety of settings, including home, school and short break services and will involve working with the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will work autonomously alongside clients, families, support workers and professionals to enable others to better understand and respond to behaviours that are challenging.

The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management and will be required to account for their professional practice through supervision, appraisal and audit.

The CAMHS LD team provides specialist mental health services for children with learning disabilities and their families. Hillingdon CAMHS is based at Minet Clinic, Hayes. The team is well established and is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family therapies, psychotherapy, psychoeducation and therapy groups and multi-family work. Hillingdon CAMHS consists of five main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team; Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS), and; Multi-Agency Psychology Service (MAPS; for children looked after). The post holder may be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area and / or wider service and trust as necessary, including working within the community (e.g. schools). The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.

To provide comprehensive specialist assessments, including risk assessment of children, young people and their families/carers referred with moderate, complex and severe mental health problems/ behaviours that challenge others using the PBS framework.

To use a range of assessment techniques including observations, standard measures and questionnaires, direct work and interviews with parents and professionals in order to collate information required to complete a functional analysis assessment.

To formulate and to be responsible for implementing in partnership with other agencies working with the child/young person a positive behaviour plan/ intervention.

To communicate in a sensitive manner assessment outcomes/ PBS formulations and positive behaviour support plans.

To co-ordinate and run psycho-educational and therapeutic groups using the PBS framework with support from the assistant psychologist/team lead.

To evaluate the implementation and impact of the intervention.

To write confidential behavioural support plans, reports for case conferences, and education that may have wide ranging implications for children, young people and their families.

To be available to carry out urgent assessments. Assessments and interventions will be conducted in school settings, clinic settings, patients’ home and the community.

To undertake other psychological and/or diagnostic assessments (i.e. Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2, or cognitive assessments) and interventions if required and appropriate.

To provide consultation and appropriate training to other professionals working with the children referred to the service in order to ensure implementation of behavioural support plans and PBS skills.

To attend PBS training and to deliver relevant training to families and other agencies in order to support and ensure the implementation of PBS.

To liaise with and where appropriate participate in joint work with other members of the Learning Disabilities P

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