Job summary
We are recruiting a Senior CAMHS Clinician who is passionate about integrated multi-agency working, sharing psychological knowledge and skills with practitioners from a range of backgrounds supporting families from a trauma informed, motivational practice model.
The post-holder will be a proactive, highly skilled individual who is committed to improving health and wellbeing outcomes for CYP with some of the most vulnerable families in the borough.
Islington CAMHS has a well-established history of working collaboratively with Islington Early Help including the Bright Futures Service. This post is connected to a CAMHS in LBI team overseen by the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager.
Bright Futures is part of LBI Early Help offer for families of five to 19 year olds. The service comprises a targeted family support case holding offer and an outreach support offer working with families alongside universal services. The Bright Futures service is delivered by outreach workers, family and senior practitioners, deputy and team managers.There are three Bright Futures locality teams in the North, Central and South of the borough.
The clinical offer to Bright Futures incorporates CAMHS and Adult Mental Health input via the Psychologically Informed Consultation & Training (PICT) team. The post-holder will therefore work closely with PICT to provide a 'whole family' mental health offer. This innovative way of working has gained a lot of positive recognition within the borough.
Main duties of the job
Provide responsive and accessible specialist CAMHS clinical input through a range of clinical activities integrated with local authority workforce to achieve good social, emotional and mental health outcomes for CYP 5-19 (25 SEND) years and their families. Integrated service delivery as part of multi-agency 'team around the worker'.to improve educational attendance
Provide an interface between the CAMHS service, allocated social worker and mental health services.
Provide opportunities for local authority practitioners to reflect on and acknowledge the impact of the work, to support staff well-being.
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES
1. Clinical
- To provide consultation to Bright Future practitioners to assist in the understanding of presenting social, emotional and mental health difficulties and intervention delivery for children and young people open to Bright Futures. To signpost and liaise with to other appropriate service provision within Islington, as needed.
- To facilitate regular group case consultation and reflective practice sessions for Bright Futures practitioners, providing cyp mental health and psychological perspectives. Sessions are co-delivered alongside adult mental health PICT colleagues and developed in collaboration with LBI Workforce Development.
- To hold a small, direct work caseload as agreed with Bright Futures Managers for the cyp and their families that are open to Bright Futures.
- To undertake mental health risk assessment and management for individual children and young people where necessary and support Bright Futures practitioners with risk assessment and risk management in the context of their interventions.
- To provide specialist mental health and neurodevelopmental assessments of children, young people and their families using individual, parent and family interviews, developmental and neurodevelopmental screens (including for ASC and ADHD) and other assessment methods, as appropriate.
- To formulate and devise specialist mental health intervention and management plans for cyp and their families, delivering evidence-based interventions for common mental health and distressed behaviour presentations. This will include parenting interventions as appropriate to the service and culturally attuned to family demographics and presenting needs.
- To work both autonomously and/or jointly with Bright Futures practitioners, as appropriate, providing sessions to cyp and their families in the community, using innovative ways of engagement and relationship building.
- To liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to cyp and their families as needed. This includes collaboration with the range of professionals that makes up a Team Around the Child/Family when assessing presenting emotional and mental health difficulties.
- To ensure the regular use of appropriate outcome and evaluation tools as part of usual clinical practice.
- To ensure record-keeping is accurate and timely and to record clinical work on RiO as per CAMHS standard operating procedures and ensure consultation and case notes are sent Bright Futures practitioners for recording on local authority case management system EHM.
2. Teaching, training and supervision
- To provide training and workshops for Bright Futures practitioners on CYP mental health, emotional wellbeing and development. This will include identification of CYP mental health difficulties and evidence-based approaches to parenting and working with parents. Training will often be developed and delivered in conjunction with PICT colleagues in collaboration with LBI workforce development.
- To offer clinical supervision to more junior CAMHS clinicians including Band 7 and Band 4 CAMHS clinicians if required.
3. Management, policy and service development
- To undertake and complete monitoring of clinical outcomes and own activity data in accordance with the agreed protocol for the CAMHS in LBI Team outcomes framework.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the CAMHS in LBI teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager on those aspects of the Bright Futures service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To contribute to the integration and development of user participation, outcomes measures, and evidence-based intervention approaches in line with both the local authority and wider CAMHS strategy for service improvement.
4. Research and service evaluation
- To contribute to the evaluation of the CAMHS in Bright Futures service and model, as required by the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager.
- To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues with the CAMHS in LBI team and Bright Futures to help develop and evaluate service provision as required.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES
1. Clinical
- To provide consultation to Bright Future practitioners to assist in the understanding of presenting social, emotional and mental health difficulties and intervention delivery for children and young people open to Bright Futures. To signpost and liaise with to other appropriate service provision within Islington, as needed.
- To facilitate regular group case consultation and reflective practice sessions for Bright Futures practitioners, providing cyp mental health and psychological perspectives. Sessions are co-delivered alongside adult mental health PICT colleagues and developed in collaboration with LBI Workforce Development.
- To hold a small, direct work caseload as agreed with Bright Futures Managers for the cyp and their families that are open to Bright Futures.
- To undertake mental health risk assessment and management for individual children and young people where necessary and support Bright Futures practitioners with risk assessment and risk management in the context of their interventions.
- To provide specialist mental health and neurodevelopmental assessments of children, young people and their families using individual, parent and family interviews, developmental and neurodevelopmental screens (including for ASC and ADHD) and other assessment methods, as appropriate.
- To formulate and devise specialist mental health intervention and management plans for cyp and their families, delivering evidence-based interventions for common mental health and distressed behaviour presentations. This will include parenting interventions as appropriate to the service and culturally attuned to family demographics and presenting needs.
- To work both autonomously and/or jointly with Bright Futures practitioners, as appropriate, providing sessions to cyp and their families in the community, using innovative ways of engagement and relationship building.
- To liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to cyp and their families as needed. This includes collaboration with the range of professionals that makes up a Team Around the Child/Family when assessing presenting emotional and mental health difficulties.
- To ensure the regular use of appropriate outcome and evaluation tools as part of usual clinical practice.
- To ensure record-keeping is accurate and timely and to record clinical work on RiO as per CAMHS standard operating procedures and ensure consultation and case notes are sent Bright Futures practitioners for recording on local authority case management system EHM.
2. Teaching, training and supervision
- To provide training and workshops for Bright Futures practitioners on CYP mental health, emotional wellbeing and development. This will include identification of CYP mental health difficulties and evidence-based approaches to parenting and working with parents. Training will often be developed and delivered in conjunction with PICT colleagues in collaboration with LBI workforce development.
- To offer clinical supervision to more junior CAMHS clinicians including Band 7 and Band 4 CAMHS clinicians if required.
3. Management, policy and service development
- To undertake and complete monitoring of clinical outcomes and own activity data in accordance with the agreed protocol for the CAMHS in LBI Team outcomes framework.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the CAMHS in LBI teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager on those aspects of the Bright Futures service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To contribute to the integration and development of user participation, outcomes measures, and evidence-based intervention approaches in line with both the local authority and wider CAMHS strategy for service improvement.
4. Research and service evaluation
- To contribute to the evaluation of the CAMHS in Bright Futures service and model, as required by the CAMHS Clinical Service Manager.
- To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues with the CAMHS in LBI team and Bright Futures to help develop and evaluate service provision as required.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- A professional qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Child Psychotherapy, Family Therapy or other core mental health discipline.
- Registration with relevant professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, ACP, UKCP)
Desirable
- Additional training in parenting interventions e.g. attachment based approaches, NVR etc
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in delivering consultation for practitioners in local authority settings
- Skills in multi -agency working with professional networks where there is complexity
- Skills in assessment of risk, in relation to mental health and safeguarding issues.
- Ability to use evidenced-based methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management of children and young people with a range of presenting social, emotional and developmental needs.
- Ability to acquire and apply a highly collaborative, team-based model of working to deliver high quality health care to children, young people and their families in non-health settings where regular services are not able to meet their needs sufficiently.
- Skill and ability in working to a high standard of inclusive and equitable practice, in accordance with local EDI values and policy
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing teaching and training in multi -agency contexts to practitioners with a range of experience and training backgrounds
- Experience of working in local authority and/or targeted early help settings as well as universals settings e.g. education
- Knowledge and experience of relevant models/frameworks for facilitating reflective practice and case consultation groups to non-health background teams.
- Extensive experience of generic and targeted, specific mental health assessments and treatments of children and families across the full range of ages, taking into consideration needs relating to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Knowledge and experience of service development and delivering quality improvement innovations within the workplace, including QI frameworks.
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking neurodevelopmental screening assessments (i.e. ASC, ADHD) and consider complexities surrounding differential diagnosis.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- A professional qualification in Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Child Psychotherapy, Family Therapy or other core mental health discipline.
- Registration with relevant professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, ACP, UKCP)
Desirable
- Additional training in parenting interventions e.g. attachment based approaches, NVR etc
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in delivering consultation for practitioners in local authority settings
- Skills in multi -agency working with professional networks where there is complexity
- Skills in assessment of risk, in relation to mental health and safeguarding issues.
- Ability to use evidenced-based methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management of children and young people with a range of presenting social, emotional and developmental needs.
- Ability to acquire and apply a highly collaborative, team-based model of working to deliver high quality health care to children, young people and their families in non-health settings where regular services are not able to meet their needs sufficiently.
- Skill and ability in working to a high standard of inclusive and equitable practice, in accordance with local EDI values and policy
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing teaching and training in multi -agency contexts to practitioners with a range of experience and training backgrounds
- Experience of working in local authority and/or targeted early help settings as well as universals settings e.g. education
- Knowledge and experience of relevant models/frameworks for facilitating reflective practice and case consultation groups to non-health background teams.
- Extensive experience of generic and targeted, specific mental health assessments and treatments of children and families across the full range of ages, taking into consideration needs relating to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Knowledge and experience of service development and delivering quality improvement innovations within the workplace, including QI frameworks.
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking neurodevelopmental screening assessments (i.e. ASC, ADHD) and consider complexities surrounding differential diagnosis.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
