Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Tower Hamlets are seeking a Highly Specialist Practitioner to work in our socially and culturally diverse borough.

We want the very best services for our children and young people. That's why we are looking for: good communicators with energy, motivation and enthusiasm; the ability to work with individuals and families with complex difficulties and to work effectively with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts; flexibility of approach; commitment to evidence-based practice; and the pursuit of the highest possible quality of service.

This is a full-time community-based post located with 6 sessions within our Emotional & Behavioural Team 2 and 4 sessions withinour Triage Team of Tower Hamlets CAMHS.

Within the Triage team, the post-holder will be expected to assist our service users inmoving smoothly through the referral, treatment and discharge processes within the service and to and from other services in their designated Borough. Theywill play a pivotal role in ensuring that families experience ease of entry to and a seamlesstransition between services, and that they feel supported to access the right service at theright time even when their needs are complex and may involve input from multiple teams.

Within the EB team, we aim to deliver timely and comprehensive assessment and treatment service, offering goal-based episodes of care to children and young people and families. Alongside individual case work there are a range of groups such as DBT, NVR parenting and Behaviour Management for parents of children with Neurodevelopmental Difficulties. There are opportunities to have consultations from colleagues to support casework (such as Trauma, Psychotherapy consultations).

We also have well established People Participation groups for parents and young people.

The service embraces continual improvement and the staff and management team have a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

You can see what our service users want from you at:

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

For more information and/or an informal discussion, please contact:
June Errington, Clinical Team Lead for EB2 ()

• Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare professions including:
  Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Art Therapist/Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health)
• Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g. BSc, Masters or Doctorate
• Registration with appropriate professional body (e.g. UKCP, HCP, NMC etc.)
• Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period

• Previous experience of working in CAMHS
• Experience of delivering evidence-based assessment and treatments with children and young people
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management, including crisis presentations and safeguarding
• Experience of working in a culturally diverse area and inner city area, and delivering culturally competent care, including working with cultural advocates and/or interpreters
• Experience of adapting interventions for children and young people who may have mental health needs in the context of neuro variance
• Experience of delivering trauma-informed practice and providing evidence based psychological interventions for trauma
• Experience of screening and managing referrals
• Experience, skills and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Experience of working with partner agencies (e.g. education, social care) to support children and young people
• Experience of service development
• A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback
• Basic computer skills
• Experience of consultation
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to others

• Commitment to equal opportunities
• Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed children, adolescents and their families/carer networks
• Freedom to act:
  Physical effort:
  Confined sitting position(therapy);travelling within community
• Mental effort: writing reports; planning teaching; concentrating for therapy sessions /clinical supervision; managing psychiatric emergencies; precise accuracy when administering medication (for nurses).
• Emotional…