Aaot Senior Clinician

**Contract**: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover)

Islington CAMHS are looking for a skilled and experienced senior CAMHS clinician to join our Adolescent Assessment + Outreach Team (AAOT). This exciting post has been developed to promote our focus on supporting the most vulnerable and at-risk young people, improving their access to services, and our response to young people in crisis.

This post will be based in the Adolescent Assessment + Outreach Team within Islington CAMHS. The AAOT has multiple functions working with 12 - 18-year-olds, who have high-risk, acute, chronic, and complex mental health difficulties. We provide a rapid assessment, treatment, and sign-posting service for young people in mental health crisis and for the most urgent referrals into the service. We engage with and provide active discharge planning to all young people experiencing a Tier 4 admission, aiming to offer a seamless and highly supportive discharge package. We also provide longer-term, high intensity support for young people who have complex, severe and enduring mental health problems, using a flexible, community and home-based approach. We work closely with a wide range of other professionals, agencies, and local services to provide joined-up interventions to this high risk, vulnerable client group and their families.

The Senior Clinician role involves providing specialist input into the AAOT, through both direct clinical work with young people and their families, and by supporting and supervising AAOT clinicians in their clinical work. The post holder will hold a small caseload, with a mixture of long and short-term, acute, and chronic cases, working as care co-ordinator in assessing, planning, and providing care and treatment to individual cases and their families. There will also be many opportunities for joint working with other team clinicians and across the disciplines, and being an active member of the AAOT MDT, supporting the whole team approach in the management of our high-risk and complex caseload. There will be opportunities for 1:1 interventions, family, and group work; using a range of therapeutic models including CBT, DBT and Mentalisation. Training in and experience of ASC and ADOS assessments is extremely desirable. The post holder will also be involved in outcome monitoring and service evaluation.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES

3.1 Clinical

3.1.1 To provide specialist generic and discipline specific treatments of referred clients.
- To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventionsusing a range of generic and discipline specific models appropriate to the service area
- To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis, and treatment of clients
- To hold and manage a caseload of clients
- To work autonomously and independently in undertaking assessments and treatments, with the support and guidance of the MDT
- To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary and joint assessments and treatment, when appropriate and agreed by the MDT
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients
- To liaise with other health, social care, and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients from each service
- To carry out clinical work in health and education settings, and clients’ homes to best meet the clients needs and in line with service practic

3.2 Teaching, training, and consultation

3.2.1 To continue to develop skills in the area of training and clinical supervision.
- To supervise, mentor and support the clinical team within AAOT as required
- To provide training, advice, and consultation where appropriate, to other health, social care, voluntary sector, and education staff working with the client groups

3.3 Management, policy, and service development

3.3.1 To contribute to the development, evaluation, implementation and monitoring of the operational policies of Community CAMHS and specifically AAOT.
- To participate in the duty and crisis rota for the DSR
- To overs