Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

The Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting trailblazer project with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community.

As a Specialist CAMHS Practitioner, you will develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change with the aim of whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people's mental health.

The post holder will supervise trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) and Child Well-being Practitioners (CWPs).

In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties in special school settings, the post-holder will clinically support EMHPs/CWPs who will work in a range of primary and secondary schools across the borough.

The role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change. We aim to deliver whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people's mental health.

Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive specialist assessments, including risk assessment of children, young people and their families/carers referred with moderate, complex and severe mental health problems.
• Provide consultation / training to other professionals who come into contact with children, young people and their families/carers.
• Write confidential reports that may have wide-ranging implications for children, young people and their families.
• Be a resource of specialist advice, specifically relating to the common emotional and behavioural problems and disorders of children and young people, to colleagues within the MHSTs, school staff and other professionals.
• Provide consultation to professionals in creating management plans for children and young people referred to the MHST.
• Liaise with and where appropriate participate in joint work with other members of the MHST, partner services and others within City & Hackney CAMHS.
• Offer and provide a liaison and consultation service to school staff, primary care clinicians and other key agencies working with children, young people and their families/carers referred with complex and severe mental health problems.
• Support the development of interventions, consultation and psychoeducation approaches regarding prevention and resilience building and health promotion.
• Act as care co-ordinator for an identified caseload and to be responsible for the coordination of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic packages of care provided by the MHSTs.
• Provide packages of care and psycho-education for the young people and their families/ carers that takes account of the complexities of family systems and their significant social networks.
• Attend regular clinical supervision.

Requirements:

• Qualification in appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Clinical/Educational/Counselling Psychology, Child Psychotherapy, Social Work, Family Therapy, and registration with relevant UK governing body.
• Specific therapeutic modality training in CBT gaining BABCP accreditation
• Previous experience of working in CAMHS
• Previous experience working with schools in mental health capacity.
• Experience of working with a wide range of mental health problems commonly seen in CAMHS
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary way