Brief Intervention Pathway Lead

Job summary

We are looking to appoint an energetic and proactive CAMHS Brief Intervention Clinical Lead who is dedicated to crisis management and guarantees the delivery of safe and effective interventions to a high-risk demographic. The service is accessed by young people who are often dealing with severe mental health issues, including psychosis, depression, affective disorders, anxiety, neurodevelopmental disorders, or significant emotional and behavioural challenges, such as self-harm, suicidal ideation, or thoughts of harming others, where the risk level is considered high.

In addition, there will be a requirement to work closely with external stake holders; acute hospitals, social care, schools and the police.

Main duties of the job

To provide responsible and effective leadership for a clinical team, ensuring seamless and consistent service via a multidisciplinary manage crises and risks effectively within the community, oversee complex case management, and support staff in handling such ensure care and operational policies are underpinned by equality, diversity, and inclusion, taking into account the cultural, religious, and spiritual needs of young people and their manage an emotionally demanding workload efficiently, often under pressure, involving multiple stakeholders with potentially high levels of expressed emotion and service ensure staff maintain accurate and secure clinical and electronic records to a high lead a responsive service that values and supports staff through supervision, training opportunities, and career act as a senior management representative, participating in working groups or forums for service development to create relevant policies, protocols, or conduct service audits and collaborate with partnership agencies to ensure CAMHS services align with local objectives and joint care strategies.

About us

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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 pro rata for part time).

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified family therapy practitioner; fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body ( HCPC, ACP, AFT), plus an additional post-graduate qualification in Psychotherapeutic Therapies ( CYP IAPT/ post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy).

The post-holder will provide specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment, and systematic outcome measurement of CAMHS service users and the clinical supervision of junior clinicians within the team, where required.

They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible, and evidence-based service is available to all service users who require this input, throughout the borough.

The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the team.

The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include systemic family work, parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term input and specialist psychotherapeutic treatments. They will be responsible for all specialist psychotherapeutic assessments and family therapy interventions within their professional sphere of expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist intervention service for children and adolescents with emotional, behavioural, and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families. To be able to effectively manage an emotionally demanding workload often under pressure and involving multiple stakeholders who may present with high expressed emotion and increased service pressures. To work alongside partnership agencies to ensure CAMHS services are delivered according to local objectives and joint care strategies.

To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a clinical team, ensuring seamless and consistent service using a multidisciplinary team.

To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families. To undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases. To ensure that staff maintain accurate clinical records and electronic records safely and to a high standard. To provide a well-led and responsive service that values staff, supports them through supervision, provides training opportunities and career development. To represent senior management for the service, participating in working groups or service development forums to develop policies, protocols, or guidelines relevant to the service; within the overall framework CAMHS and the Trusts policies and procedures. To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of informed measures associated with CYP-IAPT and to undertake service audit and evaluation. To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

Clinical Skills

To provide both formal and informal supervision to more junior staff as and when appropriate.Ability to manage group dynamics, conflict, and work with diversity To act as an autonomous professional fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body ( HCPC, RMN/RLDN, CQSW/DIPSW, SROT professional qualification) To use clinical understanding in assessing, jointly with colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team, children, adolescents, and their families to formulate their strengths and difficulties and to determine the most appropriate treatment/intervention plan. To work alongside other colleagues within Targeted Childrens Services and in the care pathway to provide an in-depth comprehensive assessment of the childs, young persons, and familys functioning where there is a constellation of high dysfunction and entrenched difficulties in the family. To provide therapeutic interventions with due regard to issues of cultural, racial, and religious difference and sexual orientation. To provide specialist clinical assessment of children and young people with severe, highly complex and persistent mental health problems. To undertake specialist observations of children in school settings as part of wider assessments. To provide therapeutic interventions (including parent/child work, group work, parent support input, psycho-education and brief individual work with children and young people) to children and young people with complex disorders such as autistic spectrum disorders, learning difficulties, ADHD; emotional difficulties, including depression and anxiety states; attachment disorders; conduct disorders, eating disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychosomatic disorders; enuresis/encopresis, aggression, borderline states, self-harming, substance misuse and other behaviors potentially dangerous to the child/young person or others. To undertake work with parents/carers/networks of referred children and young people. To utilise theory, literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other members of the team.

Leadership

To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.

To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.

To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture.

To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.

To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.

To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.

To ensure the service is delivered in accordance with CYP IAPT principles. To ensure lone working policies are being followed in accordance to trust and local policy and procedure and to appropriate manage the teams use of People Safe devices. To ensure information systems are kept up to date and comply with Trust protocols. To manage complaints and critical incident reporting, provide management reports and ensure learning from these events is embedded.

Administration

To be computer literate.

To ensure accurate recording of actions, and updating patients records, always maintaining confidentiality. To take part, and assist, in the planning and administration relating to day to day running of the caseload.

Communication

To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care. To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust. To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working. Participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identifies improvements to service provision.

Training

To contribute to the training experience of trainee therapists and students from other disciplines on placement, as appropriate To provide extensive and expert clinical supervision as required and extensively within the team. To support new staff and their integration within the team. To be responsible for contributing to the academic and clinical teaching programmes within Targeted Childrens Services. To ensure own continued professional development to maintain the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service managers. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local NHS, Social Care and Education policies and issues of relevance to the patient group, particularly safeguarding policies and procedures and NICE guidelines. To undertake mandatory training and workshops. To receive regular clinical and service-related supervision from an appropriate professional within NELFT. To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the mental health needs of the local population and related to Trust strategy.

Specific tasks directly related to the post.

The post-holder will provide specialist systemic and family interventions, assessments and supervision across the CAMHS team.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person Specification

Demonstration of Trust Values

Essential

o Putting people first o Prioritising quality Being progressive, innovative, and continually improve Being professional and honest Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity, and choice

Qualifications

Essential

RMN/RLDN, CQSW/DIPSW, SROT professional qualification or suitable training and evidence of willingness to undertake further training. Successful completion of a post-graduate training in child and adolescent family therapy and To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body ( HCPC, BABCP, ACP, AFT, NMC) Training in a therapeutic modality , CBT, DBT, family interventions

Desirable

Training in a therapeutic modality , CBT, DBT, family interventions

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions Minimum of 5 years' post qualification experience working within a multi-professional, multi-agency child health environment. Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems .Experience of using observation ( In school contexts) to contribute to assessments of children. Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts. Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person.

Desirable

Experience of working within a CAMHS environment and/or with complex high risk young people in a multicultural framework Experience of initiating, organising, and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.

Knowledge

Essential

An awareness of NHS priorities Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long-term clinical interventions .Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety. Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies. A comprehensive understanding the Mental Health Act 1983/2007, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and legislative framework of the Children Act 1989 Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically Interpret research findings. Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines.

Skills

Essential

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills .Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychotherapeutic distress. Ability to plan and organise own workload and time. Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation. Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues and external agencies. Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.

Other

Essential

To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area. To be able to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics. To be able to work autonomously within the overall framework of the Trust's policies and procedures. Able to form good working relationships with others in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency settings.Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work.

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