Camhs Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation 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 care coordination interventions to Generic CAMHS clients across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to professional colleagues and networks (such as other health professionals, schools, social services, voluntary organisations etc), families / carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

The CAMHS Practitioner role is responsible for supporting Generic / Greenwich CAMHS in implementing Directorate and Trust initiatives at service level and for playing a key role in monitoring and evaluating the quality of care delivered locally.

The post holder must be a good team worker and be able to lead in areas of

clinical practice and development and will be responsible for working

independently and managing a caseload of clients, ensuring safe and effective clinical practices.

The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team and receive robust clinical and management supervision.

To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
To care coordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools and the community
To coordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to school based and community staff e.g. Health Visitors, G.P's.
To provide training to school based and community staff e.g. Health Visitors, G.P's.
To engage with schools actively promoting the whole schoolbased approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and wellbeing.
To be aware of and take a role in the CYP Directorate participation programme
Train and mentor students and less experienced members of the discipline.
To engage therapeutically with clients and their carers in a variety of settings as appropriate to the needs of the client and to be able to assess the risk of working in particular areas.
To be able to plan and facilitate appropriate therapeutic intervention including group work for the specialist client group and their families and carers

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings.

Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're
We Listen
We Care
To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
To care coordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools and the community
To coordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to school based and community staff e.g. Health Visitors, G.P's.
To provide training to school based and community staff e.g. Health Visitors, G.P's.
To engage with schools actively promoting the whole schoolbased approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and wellbeing.
To be aware of and take a role in the CYP Directo