Senior Referral Hub Practitioner - YOUnited (CAMHS)
NHS Jobs Huntingdon
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. 1. To work as a member of the CPFT YOUnited Team and wider partnership YOUnited Referral Hub, providing screening of referrals, information gathering and consultation to referring agencies, young people and their families and/or carers.
2. To utilise specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young persons mental health needs and how their needs would most appropriately be met. 3. To assess clinical risk based on information available and additional information gathered, and to prioritise accordingly.
4. To develop formulation of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon mental health theory and evidence and which incorporates developmental interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
5. To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people referred to the service. 6. To maintain awareness of the resources of the core, neuro-developmental and eating disorders pathways in main Community CAMHS, and the administrative systems for booking appointments in those teams.
7. To work alongside Community CAMHS to ensure that waiting time standards are met. 8. To contribute to the development of systems for managing referrals including screening, filtering, re-directing and expediting referrals as appropriate. 9. To follow the Standard Operating Procedures of the YOUnited Referral Hub team.
10. To network and develop partnerships with CAMH professionals and other professionals within Social Care, Education, Early Help services, General Practitioners, Child Health services, Health Promotion agencies and the Voluntary / Independent sector.
11. To work within the framework of legislation, guidance, policies and procedures relating to the Childrens Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act. 12. To maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken. 13. To ensure that Trust policy in relation to confidentiality and consent is adhered to at all times.
18. To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through supervision and care planning. 19. To participate in the teams use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS. 20. To educate and involve children and young people and family/carers, in their care/support plan and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to assessment and the development of service provision.
21. To maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken. 22. To ensure Trust policy in relation to confidentiality and consent is maintained at all times. 23. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
24. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
25. To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of a mental health assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
2. To utilise specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young persons mental health needs and how their needs would most appropriately be met. 3. To assess clinical risk based on information available and additional information gathered, and to prioritise accordingly.
4. To develop formulation of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon mental health theory and evidence and which incorporates developmental interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
5. To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people referred to the service. 6. To maintain awareness of the resources of the core, neuro-developmental and eating disorders pathways in main Community CAMHS, and the administrative systems for booking appointments in those teams.
7. To work alongside Community CAMHS to ensure that waiting time standards are met. 8. To contribute to the development of systems for managing referrals including screening, filtering, re-directing and expediting referrals as appropriate. 9. To follow the Standard Operating Procedures of the YOUnited Referral Hub team.
10. To network and develop partnerships with CAMH professionals and other professionals within Social Care, Education, Early Help services, General Practitioners, Child Health services, Health Promotion agencies and the Voluntary / Independent sector.
11. To work within the framework of legislation, guidance, policies and procedures relating to the Childrens Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act. 12. To maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken. 13. To ensure that Trust policy in relation to confidentiality and consent is adhered to at all times.
14. To attend training opportunities to enhance professional practice and skill development, in line with professional body requirements. 15. To participate in the CAMHS on-call system as and when required. 16. To work as an integral member of the Assessment Team, providing comprehensive mental health assessments demonstrating the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care, a range of direct work and evidence-based therapeutic intervention.
To have the ability to utilize specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young persons mental health needs. 17. To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.18. To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through supervision and care planning. 19. To participate in the teams use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS. 20. To educate and involve children and young people and family/carers, in their care/support plan and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to assessment and the development of service provision.
21. To maintain accurate and appropriate records of work undertaken. 22. To ensure Trust policy in relation to confidentiality and consent is maintained at all times. 23. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
24. To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
25. To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of a mental health assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
To assist in the management of the service caseload.
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