CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner (N&S FCAMHS)
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in the forensic field and to develop skills in risk assessment and formulation, and in multi-agency consultation.
Alongside other team members, the post holder will contribute to the provision of a highly specialist advice, consultation, assessment and intervention service for young people presenting with risk to others and complex needs by:
- providing brief advice and multiagency consultation;
- facilitating consultation surgeries within local multiagency services;
- supporting case management and individual care planning;
- developing and delivering training to multi-agency services;
- and offering assessment and interventions.
Main duties of the job
Advice: to provide advice to all enquiring and referring agencies including social care, YOS, and CAMHS for young people who have or are at risk of harming others across South London. To signpost agencies when referral is not appropriate for FCAMHS.
Consultation: to provide both single and multi-agency consultation to agencies working with young people who have or are at risk of harming others jointly with team members. To support agencies in understanding, assessing, and formulating risk, and to help inform risk/care plans.Summarising consultations in a succinct report.
Assessment: to offer limited assessments when they are unable to access specialist assessments, and despite consultation the level of risk, and understanding of risk and mitigating factors remains unclear.
Intervention: to offer time-limited, focussed, and specialist interventions when young people are not able to access it elsewhere.Supervision: to offer supervision to junior members of the team, and trainee/students where appropriate and dependant on profession.
Service development/Research: the post holder will be expected to contribute to service development, and lead on particular areas of research/auditing.
Working for our organisation
The service is part of the South London Partnership (SLP), a collaboration between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and South West London and St George’s NHS Foundation Trust, and the post holder will be required to do some travel across the 12 boroughs covered (Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth) .The service base is located at The Michael Rutter Centre, Denmark Hill, less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.(This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- To provide advice and consultation to single and multi-agency colleagues, as well as delivering consultation clinics.
- To offer specialist assessment and intervention when required for a young person known to FCAMHS who is unable to access this elsewhere.
- To support single and multi-agencies to develop risk formulations, and management plans, and ensure that these are appropriately documented on clinical systems and disseminated.
- To contribute to the delivery, maintenance, auditing, and evaluation of the FCAMHS service model.
- To understand FCAMHS referral pathways, and contribute to screening of referrals, and well as supporting agencies to make referrals when they have enquires and signposting appropriately if they do not meet threshold for FCAMHS.
- To offer specialist supervision, and training to professionals/agencies when required.
- To contribute to audit, service evaluation, and research.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Doctorate or MSc level qualification associated with child and adolescent mental health e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child psychotherapy OR First level nursing qualification/registration RMN, RN LD or RSCN First level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience OR • First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems (A/I)
- All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) , Health & Care Professional's Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria- Substantive experience of working at a Band 7 level in child and adolescent mental health (A/I)
- Experience of working with young people with forensic and mental health concerns, including assessment, risk management and intervention (A/I)
- Experience of consulting to other professionals around issues of risk and risk management (A/I)
- Experience in working with young people with neurodevelopmental difference (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Advanced knowledge of subjects relevant to child and adolescent forensic mental health (A/I)
- Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice of assessment and intervention for young people presenting with forensic and mental health concerns, and their families (A/I)
- A good working knowledge of the following: The Children Act 1989 & 2004 (A/I)
- The principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing (A/I)
- Knowledge of adaptations to communication, assessment, and understanding/mitigation of risk work for those with neurodiverse profiles (A/I)
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability and skills to work effectively with senior managers and practitioners across agencies, respect differences and use integrated ways of working which complement the skills of other professionals (A/I)
- Skills in providing consultation to professional groups (A/I).
- Able to communicate complex and clinically sensitive information effectively to children and young people, their parents, families, carers and a wide range of lay, professional and academic persons within and outside the NHS orally and in writing (A/I).
Abilities
Essential criteria- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I/R)
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I/R)
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
- Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
- Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
- We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
- That all applications for this post will need to be made online
- That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
- That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
- That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
- That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
- That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
- That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
- That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’