Set Camhs Senior Practitioner

CHELMSFORD SET CAMHS has an exciting opportunity for a qualified professional to step into an established role within a diverse and experienced team. Working as the Senior Practitioner in the SET CAMHS in Mid Essex you would have a high standard of knowledge and experience of working with young people in CAMHS services who are experiencing a range of mental health presentations. We are looking for dynamic individuals who are passionate about helping young people and their families.

We are a friendly and innovative team that covering the locality of Mid Essex (Chelmsford/Braintree/ Maldon).

About NELFT’s CAMHS
NELFT’s SET CAMHS is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in the Southend, Essex and Thurrock areas and is free at the point of entry. The service is also for young people with special educational needs (SEN) up to the age of 25.

**These services have included**:

- A range of services including parenting and group therapies, brief psychological treatments
- More in-depth psychological treatments, which are evidence based and delivered by highly skilled practitioners in specialist teams
- Help and support for all young people at times of crisis
- Online and digital services such as Togetherall

Children & young people who are referred to CAMHS have a range of presentations which would include: early presentation of psychosis, self-harm & suicidal ideation, other trauma related emotional difficulties, low mood, anxiety, obsessional compulsive disorders & other mild to moderate mental health difficulties. For those with additional neurodevelopmental needs, interventions for their co-morbid mental health issues are provided within the neurodevelopmental pathway.

As well as your own case load, the Senior CAMHS Practitioner supports their clinical team to deliver therapeutic interventions & continues Thrive Model through supervision, teaching & mentoring. Knowledge & experience of delivering interventions within child mental health is essential as is an understanding of the presentations within the context of neurodevelopmental disorders. Additional therapeutic skills & training such as CBT, SFT, Family / Systemic, DBT & other counselling approaches is desirable as is experience of providing adapted interventions.

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.

Locality Teams in CAMHS
The aim of our new CAMHS is to respond earlier to children and young people’s needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young people’s mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.

The service is driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies); evidence based interventions, routine measurement of outcomes, access to high quality training and supervision for professionals and true co-production with children and young people