Camhs Practitioner

A very exciting opportunity has arisen to join Bromley CAMHS, Generic team at a time of change. We are initiating a whole service improvement to the patient journey, enabling children and families to access help earlier and enabling staff to have job plans better tailored to their expertise and development.

As a result of investment in Bromley CAMHS and to support the Transformation of the service, we have vacancy for a specialist CAMHS practitioner.

The post holder will offer assessment, formulation and evidence-based psychological intervention for children and young people (CYP) within the Generic team. The successful applicant will have experience with working with children and young people, training in evidence-based interventions and experience of working with children and young people in a mental health setting.

Bromley CAMHS is transforming its service, with focus on improving services and the collective wellbeing for our Children, Young People, Families and Staff.

Bromley CAMHS is currently in the process of redesigning its Service Model to align with the Thrive framework, a nationally recognised approach, to help us deliver timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Bromley. Bromley is a place where every child and young person can achieve their full potential. We all recognise and value the importance of promoting good mental health and building resilience in children,& young people.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind

We’re Fair

We Listen

We Care

To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of young people and their families and carers.
- To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for young people and their families and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
- To develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with young people and their families/carers.
- To liaise with the young person’s professional network, keeping them informed of developments, changes in risk status and promoting multi agency collaboration. Liaison with Children’s Social Care, educational services, independent sector mental health providers, counsellors and any other professional related to the child care.
- To involve the young person, and where appropriate, their families/carers in delivering programmes of care.
- To be able to assess and manage high-risk clients in a variety of settings, conducting risk assessments and formulating safety plans.
- To take part in the emergency duty rota, conducting a holistic assessment and developing risk management plans.
- To effectively and appropriately communicate these risks often under difficult, highly charged and emotional circumstances to medical staff, other professionals and families involved in the care of the client.
- To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
- To play an active role in promoting mental health and well-being in young people and their families/carers.
- To take responsibility for the organisation and facilitation of multi-agency meetings e.g. CPA Meetings, professional meetings, Clinical team discussions.
- To have analytical and judgement skills to consider the wider implications of decisions made in regards to clients care, taking into account the young person’s developmental stage.
- To be able to demonstrate the ability to make appropriate decisions under pressure taking into consideration the risks to clients, self and others and