Camhs Practitioner- Lighthouse team | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Lambeth CAMHS is looking to recruit an experienced and motivated CAMHS Practitioner for our developing Lighthouse Team. This is an exciting time to join the team, which is currently expanding its offer to children, young people and their families as they enter CAMHS.
You will be one of five Lighthouse Clinicians responsible for the CAMHS duty system, which involves: screening and managing all new referrals; offering telephone ‘triage’ follow-up to children and young people who have attended A&E; responding to telephone queries.
You will also be required to offer face-to-face and video appointments to children and young people, and manage a caseload as the service develops.
You will share responsibility for ensuring positive clinical outcomes for children, young people and their families are achieved, and that these are evidenced by performance indicators such as activity data, targets and quality measures. You will also share responsibility for ensuring that all team members participate in audit, evaluation and research.
The London Borough of Lambeth has a population of 317,800 (GLA 2020). Lambeth’s population is highly diverse, a characteristic visible in the breadth of ethnic and cultural traditions seen throughout the borough. It is estimated that 63% of the population describe their ethnicity as other than White British; 23% describe their ethnicity as Black (11% Black African, 7% Black Caribbean and 5% Other Black), 22% White Other and 6% as Asian.
The Annual population survey, estimates that a third of Lambeth’s residents are non-UK born. Of these non-UK born, 40% are of wider European origin, 20% are of African origin; and 20% of Central or South American origin. Nearly 150 languages are spoken as the first language in the homes of Lambeth school children.Portuguese, Spanish and Somali, are the most commonly spoken other languages in Lambeth.
Lambeth has a child and youth population aged 0-20 of almost 70,000. Over 50% of this number are 0 to 9 years old
1 You will be one of five Lighthouse Clinicians responsible for the daily CAMHS duty system, which involves: screening, contacting and managing all new referrals within target time frames; offering telephone ‘triage’ follow-up to children and young people who have attended A&E; responding to telephone queries and supporting the team where necessary.This will form the bulk of the work.
2 In addition, you may be required to offer face-to-face, video appointments or group work to children, young people and their families, and manage a caseload as the service needs.
3 In the absence of the named care coordinator, you may be required to provide cover, including dealing with any urgent telephone queries in their absence. For example meetings, e.g., CPAs; discharge planning; Child Protection Conferences etc.
4 You will share responsibility for ensuring that CAMHS staff within the teams achieve positive clinical outcomes for children, young people and their families and that these are evidenced by performance indicators such as activity data, targets and quality measures.You will also share responsibility for ensuring that all team members participate in audit, evaluation and research.
5 You will work with other CAMHS practitioners in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children and services across agencies are coordinated efficiently and effectively.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Feb 2025