CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner (N&S FCAMHS)

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in the forensic field and to develop skills in risk assessment and formulation, and in multi-agency consultation.

Alongside other team members, the post holder will contribute to the provision of a highly specialist advice, consultation, assessment and intervention service for young people presenting with risk to others and complex needs by: •    providing brief advice and multiagency consultation. •    facilitating consultation surgeries within local multiagency services. •    supporting case management and individual care planning. •    developing and delivering training to multi-agency services. •    and offering assessment and interventions.

Main duties of the job

• Advice: to provide advice to all enquiring and referring agencies including social care, YOS, and CAMHS for young people who have or are at risk of harming others across South London. To signpost agencies when referral is not appropriate for FCAMHS. •    Consultation: to provide both single and multi-agency consultation to agencies working with young people who have or are at risk of harming others jointly with team members. To support agencies in understanding, assessing, and formulating risk, and to help inform risk/care plans. Summarising consultations in a succinct report.  •    Assessment: to offer limited assessments when they are unable to access specialist assessments, and despite consultation the level of risk, and understanding of risk and mitigating factors remains unclear.  •    Intervention: to offer time-limited, focussed, and specialist interventions when young people are not able to access it elsewhere. •    Supervision: to offer supervision to junior members of the team, and trainee/students where appropriate and dependant on profession.  •    Service development/Research: the post holder will be expected to contribute to service development, and lead on particular areas of research/auditing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide advice and consultation to single and multi-agency colleagues, as well as delivering consultation clinics. •    To offer specialist assessment and intervention when required for a young person known to FCAMHS who is unable to access this elsewhere.  •    To support single and multi-agencies to develop risk formulations, and management plans, and ensure that these are appropriately documented on clinical systems and disseminated.  •    To contribute to the delivery, maintenance, auditing, and evaluation of the FCAMHS service model. •    To understand FCAMHS referral pathways, and contribute to screening of referrals, and well as supporting agencies to make referrals when they have enquires and signposting appropriately if they do not meet threshold for FCAMHS. •    To offer specialist supervision, and training to professionals/agencies when required.  •    To contribute to audit, service evaluation, and research.