CAMHS Clinical Practitioner | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

The post holder will provide a qualified specialist clinical service to clients known to Enfield Youth Justice Service (YJS). They will also provide CAMHS input to the Enfield YJS team. You will contribute to the delivery of CAMHS in Enfield (YJS), including high quality, safe and responsive specialist mental health services to adolescents presenting with complex emotional and behavioural health needs in a youth justice setting.

This role will require working with young people and their families to help with a range of moderate to severe mental health difficulties and support the wellbeing of the youth justice cohort. It will involve undertaking CAMHS assessments and care co-ordination of young people in a community setting, including mental health risk assessments for young people known to the YJS and make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention offer.

It may involve longer term work if you are trained to provide an evidence-based intervention or if further case management is necessary. This requires the ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of clinical practice within the service/team.

• Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluation and decisions making about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
• Provision of specialist advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and intervention plan.
• Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• Undertake meaningful risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both care.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, clinical letters and reports writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the relevant professional body and Trust policies and procedures.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Oct 2024