Camhs Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated CAMHS Practitioner to join the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team in Cambridge. We work with children and young people with moderate to severe mental health disorders with coexisting ASD and ADHD, providing comprehensive assessment and intervention. You will join a supportive team who are passionate about making a difference to young people and their families.

In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff based on their individual needs identified throughout appraisal process. We routinely offer ADOS training as well as training to suport with working with young people with neurodevelopmental needs.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a multidisciplinary team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting young people and their families, then we want to hear from you.

To provide specialist evidence-based assessment and individual work to children and adolescents with mental health difficulties.

To offer advice and consultation on young people’s psychological care to both professional colleagues and staff from other agencies.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the trust’s and CAMHS’ policies and procedures.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

1. To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team, providing comprehensive mental health and diagnostic assessments demonstrating the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of 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, a range of direct work and evidence-based therapeutic intervention. To have the ability to utilize specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young person’s mental health needs.
2. To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.
3. To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based therapeutic programmes e.g. CBT and Parenting programmes on both an individual and group basis to children and young people and their families.
4. To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon mental health theory and evidence and which incorporates developmental interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors
5. To evaluate and make treatment decisions in collaboration with the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team and in consultation with an accredited CAMHS therapist about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.
6. To be responsible for terminating intervention in consultation with other professionals involved.
7. To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through supervision and care planning.
8. To participate in the team’s use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS
9. To educate and involve children and young people and family/carers, in their care/support plan and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to assessment and the development of service provision.
10. To contribute to the development of systems for the management of referrals including screening, filtering, redirecting and fast tracking referrals as appropriate.