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

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The post holder will work in the CAMHS in New River College PRU team, which is a well-established integrated multi-disciplinary health teams offering direct clinical work (assessment and treatment) to children, young people, their parents, and carers based in the New River College PRU Provision.

New River College comprises of a Primary, Secondary and Medical provision. The role advertised will work across all three sites, with a particular focus on the Secondary Provision.

The team offers a combination of specialist assessments and interventions, as well as consultation to the NRC staff team. This includes reflective practice sessions for staff.

Trauma informed approaches are central to the team's practice, and we are in the process of enhancing our Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) group for parents in collaboration with New River College.

The post-holder will be passionate about working with hard-to-reach children and families.

The post-holders will manage a clinical caseload and undertake consultative work with education colleagues and other professionals.

They will join a friendly, dynamic and supportive Team offering weekly multidisciplinary meetings, fortnightly reflective practice, regular supervision, direct support from senior clinicians and termly CPD opportunities.

The post is open to any core profession, with a particular desire to recruit a Clinical Psychologist, to continue to represent a range of disciplines within the team.

To provide specialist mental health input to meet the aims and objectives of the Clinical SLA for CAMHS in New River College PRU.

To provide specialist mental health assessments of pupils with school based emotional and behavioural difficulties.

To undertake cognitive assessments, as required, if this is within your skill set.

To provide specialist assessments of young people with complex challenging behaviour both at home and school, working with their families, using individual, parent, and family interviews to facilitate improvement in parent management and family communication.

To be able to consider neurodevelopmental conditions in the context of complex trauma and attachment difficulties.

To formulate and devise mental health treatment and management plans for young people and to provide flexible psychological treatment, using a range of evidence-based specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service, including trauma-informed approaches.

To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to education staff and CAMHS Clinicians and to other health, local authority and voluntary sector child professionals to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of young people attending PRUs.

To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.

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.

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.

To ensure the regular use of client rated routine outcomes as part of usual clinical practice, and as appropriate to the setting and the client group.

To develop jointly with education colleagues effective school-based interventions that promote young people's mental health and assist in development of an effective learning culture within specialist education provision.

To liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.

To collaborate with the range of professionals that makes up the Team Around the School in assessing risk to pupils attending the PRUs.

To work autonomously to provide treatment sessions based within the PRU unit and in the community to enhance client engagement.

To undertake multi-disciplinary assessment and treatments with hard-to-reach young people and their families using innovative ways of engagement and relationship building.

To provide and contribute to comprehensive risk assessments for children and young people and to identify and respond to safeguarding concerns appropriately.