Set Camhs B6 Intensive Support Service Mental

This post is an exciting opportunity for those who wish to be part of an innovative developing service. The SET CAMHS crisis and intensive support/home treatment team offer assessment and interventions to those young people presenting with mental deterioration or crisis presentations. As a service we now work within the Thrive model and implement collaborative care plans with our community services and community SET CAMHS team to promote positive outcomes for vulnerable young people and their families-there are opportunities here for joint working and co-ordinating alongside the community-based teams. Our approach to working is being developed with a focus on meeting the needs of the young person to ensure effective clinical practice and brief therapeutic interventions, and to reduce risk in order to have a stabilising impact within a containing approach. Within the service there are opportunities for development and training in various therapeutic approaches, and all new starters will be provided with a full induction and opportunities to shadow the team and to learn about the various departments/teams within the SET CAMHS model.

The practitioner will be responsible for providing outreach evidence-based intervention to young people and families within the Intensive Support Service Community Pathway under the Thrive model. Our crisis service offers support to those young people attending A&E, those who are supported by the community SET CAMHS teams, and young people who are discharged from Tier 4 mental health Units. We are looking for clinicians who are confident in working with complex presentations such as trauma, emotional dysregulation, suicidal ideation/self-harm and/or attachment difficulties, and who hold an awareness of neurodiversity and the Mental Health Act.

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

This post is open to Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychological Therapists (BACP, UKCP, PTUK, HCPC), Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMN's), Occupational Therapists (OT), Social Workers. Any additional qualifications in therapeutic approaches such as DBT, EMDR, CBT, MBT, NVR, SFT would also be desirable.
- Skilled in assessment, formulation, case management and delivery of brief therapeutic intervention to people experiencing acute mental health crisis in the community and acute hospitals.
- Experienced in assessing and managing clinical risk, drawing on dynamic case formulation skills and working collaboratively with service users to agree multi-agency treatment care plans and safety plans.
- Possess the relevant qualification listed and any additional therapeutic training would be beneficial.
- Having knowledge, understanding and experience of working with the legal frameworks which relate to the care and treatment of children and young people, with reference to Children Act 1989, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended in 2007).
- Flexibility to work within a service which operates 7 days a week 365 days per year on a shift pattern basis (8am-8pm/8pm-8am 4 days/week). Some flexibility around desired hours can be negotiated (i.e day or night shift preferences) though attendance at key meetings is essential.
- Willing to work within a hybrid model-utilising a combination of attendance at office/clinic space and home working.
- Will abide by strong ethical standards and safeguarding policy and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of young people.
- Being optimistic, enthusiastic, and creative in considering approaches to supporting and engaging at times a hard-to-reach client group.
- Will have an understanding and appreciation of local services, agencies and networks that surround young people, especially in relation to mental health and mental health crisis.
- Are flexible in practice and approach and able to carry out high quality Mental Health and Risk Assessments and deliver talking therapy and evidence-based informed interventions in a variety of settings, including young people’s homes, colleges, schools, community settings and A&E where required.
- Able to formulate specific highly specialist