Camhs Practitioner

An exciting opportunity to work as part of the local systems partners YOUnited Referral Hub that supports access to help for children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing and mental health needs in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The job includes a clinical focus of doing trusted assessment and/or potential therapeutic interventions in main CAMHS as a minimum of 20% of the role.

To work as part of the local systems partners Referral Hub that supports access to help for children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing and mental health needs in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

To process non-crisis referrals of children and young people referred.

To triage each referral for risk and make a decision about whether referral meets the threshold for specialist CAMHS pathways, a trusted assessment within the “getting more help” CAMHS interventions pathways or a “getting help” systems partners intervention pathway. If not, to signpost the referral to the appropriate service or offer suitable advice working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Referral Hub’s 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
- To work as a member of the CAMHS YOUnited Team and wider local systems partners YOUnited Referral Hub, providing screening of referrals, information gathering and consultation to referring agencies, young people and their families and/or carers.
- To utilise specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young person’s mental health needs and how they would most appropriately be met.
- To assess clinical risk based on information available and additional information gathered, and to prioritise accordingly.
- To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people referred to the service.
- To maintain awareness of the resources of the core, neuro-developmental and eating disorders pathways in main Community CAMHS, and the administrative systems for booking appointments in those teams.
- To work alongside Community CAMHS to ensure that waiting time standards are met.
- To contribute to the development of systems for managing referrals including screening, filtering, re-directing and fast tracking referrals as appropriate.
- To follow the Standard Operating Procedures of the YOUnited Referral Hub team.
- To network and develop partnerships with CAMH professionals and other professionals within Social Care, Education, Early Help services, General Practitioners, Child Health services, Health Promotion agencies and the Voluntary / Independent sector.
- To work within the framework of legislation, guidance, policies and procedures relating to the Children’s Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
- To maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken.
- To ensure that Trust policy in relation to confidentiality and consent is adhered to at all times.
- To attend training opportunities to promote professional practice and skills development in line with professional body requirements.
- To participate in the CAMHS on-call system as and when required.

Clinical role
- To work as an integral member of the Trusted Assessment Team, providing comprehensive mental health 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.
- To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.
- To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based therapeutic programmes particularly CBT and Parenting programmes on both an individual and group basis to children and young people and their families.
- To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a cohere