CAMHS Practitioner | Cambridgeshire and NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 CAMHS Practitioner to join our Neurodevelopmental Team.

We are a multidisciplinary team working with young people with diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability and provide assessment and treatment for Autism and ADHD. We provide mental health assessments for young people with neurodevelopmental disorders and psychological therapies for co‑morbid mental health disorders.

The Neurodevelopmental Team are committed to a high level of patient care and the ideal candidate will have a strong team and work ethic, sense of accountability, interest in service development, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure s post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team. We are a supportive team who value each other’s skills and knowledge and have a shared goal of providing the best care and support to the families we serve.

In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development. We are keen to support and develop our staff through additional relevant training.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a multidisciplinary team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders and co‑morbid mental health issues, then we want to hear from you.

Ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict deadlines.

• To provide an evidence‑based diagnostic and therapy service to children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders such as Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities in the Neurodevelopmental Service CAMHS which is part of the Children, Young People and Families Directorate in CPFT.
• Patients will be managed on a community basis, providing assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders and/or comorbid mental health disorder and evidence-based therapy.
• At the same time as offering advice and consultation on patient’s mental health care to colleagues and partner agencies and to other non‑professional carers.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s and Trust’s policies and procedures.
• To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Neurodevelopment Community Team, providing comprehensive mental health and diagnostic assessments and specialist assessments (if applicable such as SALT, OT, Cognitive), demonstrating the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To have the ability to utilise specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young person’s mental health needs.
• To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.
• To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence‑based therapeutic programmes e.g. Positive Behaviour Support, CBT and Parenting programmes on both an individual and group basis to children and young people and their families.
• To develop formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon mental health theory and evidence which incorporates developmental, interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
• To evaluate and make treatment decisions in collaboration with the CAMHS Community Team, the Multidisciplinary Team and in consultation with an accredited CAMHS therapist or qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.
• To be responsible for terminating intervention in consultation with other professionals involved.
• To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through…