Camhs Practitioner - Luton, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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Luton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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CAMHS Practitioner, Band 6 (24 hours in Emotional & Behavioural Team (E&B), Luton CAMHS

(CMHN, Family Therapy Practitioner, Clinical Associate Psychologist, Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist, Creative Arts Therapist, Occupational Therapist)

We are looking for a confident CAMHS professional with a demonstrable track record of providing good quality evidence based interventions, improving service quality with a strong interest in service development.

You will be either a Nurse, Social worker, Occupational Therapist, Psychotherapist or Psychologist with the requisite professional registration.

The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of this multicultural context.

You will be part of a very comprehensive stepped care model of delivery by CAMHS ELFT services in the county, and be an integral part of a thriving and substantive specialist multi-disciplinary service offer.

E&B offers interventions within Getting More Help and Risk Support quadrants of the Thrive Model. This includes short to medium-term, and longer-term therapeutic work with children, young people and their parents.

The interventions will range from group work, work with parental couple, consultations to professional network, training and other interventions within the CAMHS wider system.

The role will encompass clinical, professional and developmental aspects, requiring the post holder to work in close collaboration with colleagues.

The post holder will help promote and maintain the role of the systemic family clinic within the team, and through development and supervision manage complex clinical presentations.

The post holder will provide generic input into the E&B (Emotional and Behavioural) Team. This will include professional and practice development, ensuring high quality client-centered evidence based care is delivered.

The post holder will maintain high standards of care and practice and take on a greater range of clinical tasks to improve client care in the specialist CAMH service.

The post holder will have access to clinical supervision and support across all the disciplines.

The post holder will provide input into a specialist child and adolescent mental health service to young people and their families who have complex mental health needs.

The post holder will also play a central role in further development and implementation of care pathway within the team.

The post holder may contribute to the Clinician of the Day (COD) rota as required to meet the needs of young people presenting in crisis, to support the service.

The post holder will have access to CPD opportunities and will be supported to become an established CAMHS clinician able to provide competent and comprehensive mental health assessment, risk management plans, consultations and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties.

We offer an exciting and dynamic environment where your ideas and career development will be valued. You will be supported directly by senior colleagues and we will develop the service together.

Please find attached the job description and person/role specification.