Camhs Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Barnet CAMHS as CAMHS practitioner. This is role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality mental health care to support young people with neurodevelopment disorders and their families. The post hold would be expected to work as care coordinator to children with learning disability and children waiting for ADHD assessment.
The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service.
Barnet CAMHS use the THRIVE Framework when thinking about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families. The Framework is needs-led and are defined by the children, young people and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision making. The post sits predominantly sits within the Getting Help and Getting More Help needs based grouping of the Framework. However, Getting Advice and Getting Risk Support are also relevant within the role.
The post holder will act as care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.
You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are co
- ordinated efficiently and effectively. This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.
You will offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non
- psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working
autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedure. You will also clinically and/or professionally supervise, advise or manage junior members and trainees of the team.
The post holder will utilise research skills for QI and make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care pathways.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
**Our Five-Year Strategy**:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network

**The postholder will be aligned with our Values**:

- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
**Clinical**:
To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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.
To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual
framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning
historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care
To provide speciali