Senior CAMHS Practitioner

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Job overview

The South Hub is commissioned to provide urgent assessment to Young People across Camden and Islington who may otherwise present at A&E. The South Hub aims to prevent unnecessary A&E visits to young people presenting in Crisis, who do not require medical interventions.

This is an exciting time to join the South Hub team, as we continue to expand our outreach programme to Schools, GPs and Social Services across Islington and Camden. Through closer working relationships, we hope to further reduce unnecessary presentations at our local A&Es; Whittington, UCLH and Royal Free Hospitals.

Alongside offering support to Schools, GPs and Social Services, the South Hub will continue to provide 7-day Follow Up appointments, Walk-in appointments and urgent mental health assessment to young people across Camden and Islington.

The team works in a friendly and supportive environment, co-located with Islington CAMHS, a short walk from the Whittington hospital and has allowed for flexible moving of staff to see young people where most appropriate. Staff will work flexibly across Camden and Islington, both within existing CAMHS bases and expanding within Schools and GP practices.

The principal purpose of the role is to provide clinical interventions to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of patients in MH crisis or requiring urgent care, whilst supporting the implementation of the Hub, supervising junior staff and developing their skill sets.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership to the CAMHS South Hub team, ensuring children and young people in MH crisis receive safe effective and quality care in the Hub.
• To develop and establish systems and protocols, and wider service developments, to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care to children and young people presenting in mental health crisis across the South of North Central London.
• To develop, where required, and review policies and guidance in line with national legislation and local policies and ensure RMN and HCA staff are up to date and aware of these.
• To provide specialist advice, education and support to parents, their carers and other health care professionals for children with Mental Health problems.
• To accept patient referrals to agreed criteria and be the identified key worker for a patient/client caseload for defined episodes of care.
• To practice clinically in agreed care settings according to established protocols or guidelines and will support the development and smooth running of the nursing input to mental health service.
• The post holder will work to agreed professional, departmental and Trust boundaries as required to provide patient-centred seamless care.
• To establish and nurture effective working relationship with all partner agencies with the aim to create a seamless crisis pathway for South NCL children and young people, and their families.

Working for our organisation

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. The Trust believes that 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Be a point of contact for patients/carers for defined episodes/pathways of care and provide clinical care, specialist mental health advice and psychosocial support, with a focus on urgent and crisis care delivered in the South Hub.
2. Assess health and psychosocial needs of individual patients and provide care to meet these needs, in partnership with patients/carers and the nursing and medical teams.
3. Agree a clear set of criteria, with Consultant Psychiatrist and work in partnership with other professionals to deliver co-ordinated programmes of care effectively and referring patients to other practitioners as required.
4. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients.
5. Facilitate the smooth transfer or discharge of patients, liaise with community care (CAMHS), education and other services to ensure continuity of care.
6. To have a good understanding of relevant legal legislation, e.g. Mental Health Act, Children Act, Mental Capacity Act and Child Protection procedures.
7. To communicate with patients in ways that empowers them to make informed choices about their health and care.
8. To act as an advocate for individual patients and the client groups.
9. Provide appropriate education to patients and their families to promote health and encourage self-care.
10. Use communication skills to impart information to patients and carers and provide them with advice and emotional support in the community as appropriate.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• Core Profession (Registered Nurse, OT, Social Worker, Clin/Coun Psychologist, C&A Psychotherapist)

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of working in CAMHS or equivalent at Band 7 or above.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• South Hub Senior JD (PDF, 328.4KB)
• South Hub Senior JD&PS (PDF, 328.4KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)