Camhs Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The post holder will provide a qualified specialist clinical service to clients known to Haringey Youth Justice Service (YJS). They will also provide CAMHS input to the Haringey YJS team.

You will contribute to the delivery of CAMHS in Haringey (YJS), including high quality, safe and responsive specialist mental health services to adolescents presenting with complex emotional and behavioural health needs in a youth justice setting.

This role will require working with young people and their families to help with a range of moderate to severe mental health difficulties and support the wellbeing of the youth justice cohort.

It will involve undertaking CAMHS assessments and care co-ordination of young people in a community setting, including mental health risk assessments for young people known to the YJS and make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention offer.

It may involve longer term work if you are trained to provide an evidence-based intervention or if further case management is necessary.

This requires the ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of clinical practice within the service/team.

Assume clinical responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk.
To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including mental health assessments, selfreport measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semistructured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention offer.
To work autonomously and participate in the delivery and development of patient centred, evidencebased care as appropriate, using a range of advanced skills and knowledge for patients with both diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. Assess safeguarding issues and refer concerns to Child Protection teams.
Deliver interventions for children and young people who have selfharmed/are in crisis or presenting with other mental health concerns; the treatment interventions provided would be based on NICE guidelines and evidencebased practice.

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Deliver the best care using the most uptodate practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
Generous Annual Leave Allowance
NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Contribute to the screening, review and allocation of referrals within the Haringey CAMHS YJS team. And ensuring referrals to the team are allocated or redirected and discharged according to Trust procedures.
To ensure that information of a confidential nature is not divulged to any unauthorised person and is stored in line with the provisions of the Data Protection Act.
To participate in multidisciplinary team/business meeting.
To maintain a frequent attendance and participation at appropriate clinical forum including group clinical supervision.
The post holder will have access to confidential multiagency sensitive information and is

- expected to be aware of the potential public and media interest that this may generate and deal with these issues in line with trust policies regarding confidentiality.

To facilitate appropriate signposting to/referring on, or interventions in close collaboration and liaison with other relevant agencies. Using a good working knowledge and understanding of local services.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
To travel around the locality