Camhs Clinician - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Band WTE - 12 months fixed term)

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 clinician with experience of working with Children Looked After to join an experienced CAMHS team co-located with Children's Social Care.

The work has a consultative focus, offering group and individual consultation to social work teams; opportunities for developing and delivering trainings; holding a small clinical caseload, which will include 1:1 work with under 16's and work with foster carers.

The post-holder will also support the specialist reunification project, supporting the professional network, as well as families directly, towards the plan of returning children home.

Our work is framed within a stepped model of care and links closely with Islington Children's Social Care's focuses on DDP and motivational practice

Islington Community CAMHS offers workers spaces to reflect, and encourages continued professional development and bringing dilemmas around EDI issues, though CPD opportunities, monthly whole-service 'lunch-time learning' seminar/workshops, BAME discussion forums and BAME reflective spaces.

Please see the Job description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.

If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'detailed job description and main responsibilities' section.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

POST SUMMARY

This is a full-time (1.0 WTE) post fixed term for 12 months based in the multidisciplinary CAMHS team for Children Looked After (CLA) and care experienced.

Services offered by the team are commissioned by Children's Services and clinicians are located alongside social workers and other practitioners, in an integrated service that aims to improve the experiences and outcomes of children and young people, their carers and families.

The post is located with the Under 16s CLA Social Work teams.

Under 16s CLA Teams (0.

8 WTE):

The post holder will join other CLA CAMHS clinicians attached to the Under 16s social work teams and offer a range of consultation (group and individual) and clinical work in line with the team's stepped model of care.

Islington's Social Work model, Motivational Practice, is a relationship-based, purposeful approach with social workers practicing in a trauma informed way, incorporating Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP).

Clinicians are positioned to support social workers, as the lead professionals engaged in existing relationships and work with looked after children and their carers.

A stepped model of care is used with clinical advice and consultation available to social workers through clinician's contribution to group supervision, consultation to individual social workers, to the 'parenting team' and attendance at multi-agency care and placement planning meetings.

Direct work is offered when the level of concern about a young person's presentation or needs indicates a psychological assessment or intervention is required, alongside the work of the parenting team.

The post holds a small clinical caseload (20%), offering specialist assessment and evidence-based interventions to young people and/ or their carers.

Clinical work will include specific trauma focused interventions.

There are also opportunities for developing and delivering trainings to social workers and foster carers, including co-facilitating an attachment-based parenting skills group for foster carers with social work colleagues.

Return Home (Re-unification) Project (0.2 WTE)

Islington Social Care are committed to developing local practice and the support offered to children and families, when children return home from care.

A re-unification framework has been developed to guide social work practice and a Family Support Worker and Clinician will work in collaboration with social workers, to support the ongoing development of the framework and the offer of support to families.

The post-holder will provide consultation to the professional networks and systemic assessment and therapy to children and families, jointly with social workers where possible.

It is anticipated that some of the therapeutic work will be home based.

MAIN DUTIES
Consultation and Clinical Work
1