Specialist CAMHS Practitioner-CNT/EIS | East London NHS Foundation Trust
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?
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 withsevere 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!
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.
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 hanspeter.dorner1@nhs.net/ Tel: 02074262375.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025