Specialist CAMHS Practitioner-CNT/EIS
Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Do you have the tenacity and skills to hit the ground running?
Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in Tower Hamlets are evolving and changing, wanting the very best services for our children and young people. We are developing and transforming our local Tower Hamlets CAMHS Services offers with the increased need for support to young people with severe and complex mental health needs, including early signs of psychosis.We are looking for someone like you to join our CAMHS Complex Needs team! Do you have what it takes?
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team offering goal-based and outcome focused episodes of care to young people, children and families presenting with various severe and complex mental health difficulties. The post will give the successful candidates a unique perspective and ability to work collaboratively with other clinical pathways in TH CAMHS, trialing and innovating new methods of responding to young people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties with underlying vulnerabilities and/or contextual adversity and accompanied high risk requiring more than routine care over a longer period of time.
We are looking for good communicators who are motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and have the ability to work with complex cases and can work effectively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts and deliver treatment tailored to CYP needs.If you have a flexible and adaptive approach to your work; a commitment to solid evidence-based practice; and strive to give the highest possible quality of service; this post is for YOU!
Working for our organisation
In conjunction with partners in commissioning, health, social care, and education, we are delivering an outcome-based service where all provider agencies will work together to provide the highest quality service to our clients.
As a service we embrace continual improvement with staff and the management team having a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement. Our generic Emotional and Behavioral pathways assess and provide a variety of evidence-based treatments and intervention of children, young people, and their families in this busy East London CAMHS service.The successful candidates will offer as part of the new development of our complex needs team an accessible, flexible, timely and responsive CAMHS service. The service offer comprises a comprehensive needs assessment, including a risk assessment which will inform holistic care plans, in joint collaborative with other agencies.
Our Ethos is to provide the right treatment, at the right time and in the right place for the CYP of Tower Hamlets.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details.
You will have the qualifications and experience to work in a busy and sometimes challenging Tier 3 CAMHS service. For more information please contact: Dr Hanspeter Dorner, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Clinical Team Lead [email protected] / Tel: 02074262375.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria- Two years post registration experience in mental health
- Experience of working with children and young people’s mental health
- To have the ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of assessing and managing risk in service users with complex needs and/or EIS
- Experience of working with young people with acute mental health difficulties in different community settings
- Experience of assessing children and young people who present with complex mental health needs
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families.
- Legislation relating to children & young people
- Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London
- An understanding of equal opportunities
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Relevant qualification in recognised health/mental health profession e.g. RMN, allied health professions, social work, psychology, family therapy, occupational therapy
- Evidence of post registration training e.g. Mentorship, Training, CBT, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), systemic therapy etc.
- Evidence of relevant CAMHS training
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria- To conduct comprehensive mental health and risk assessments
- Be familiar with case formulation and appropriate care planning
- To manage own caseload effectively
- Willing to embrace change creatively
- Able to sensitively liaise and consult to fellow professionals and other agencies
- To have teaching skills
Other
Essential criteria- Freedom to Act: Managing own caseload-accountable for own actions using professional code of practice and trust policies
- Physical Effort: Travelling within community, all weathers, constrained sitting position when offering therapy
- Mental Effort: Writing reports, concentrating for therapy sessions
- Emotional Effort: Dealing with families in breakdown, trauma and abuse, occasional patient complaints, conveying of unwelcome news
- Working Conditions: Occasional verbal abuse, heightened emotional intensity among clients and at times amongst staff, unpredictable clinical scenarios (participation in rota); travel in community-all weathers.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services.We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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