SET CAMHS Practitioner

Job overview

We are looking for a either a clinician with a professional registration (i.e. Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist) or two years or more experience of working directly with children or adults with a learning disability to come and work within NELFT’s Essex wide SET CAMHS Learning Disabilities team.

The team provides mental health services to children and young people with severe to profound learning disabilities who additionally may also have related complex developmental disorders often including an additional Autistic Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. The team is based in Chelmsford and offers a specialist community based mental health service across Essex to children, young people and their parents and professionals who care and support them at home and in all environments.  As a clinician you will be expected to be able to undertake skilled assessments and provide interventions to this client group and the systems that support them and their families, around their mental health issues.

The service provides the latest in evidence based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children and young people with severe to profound learning disabilities and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, taking into account the individual circumstances of each individual, child and their system.

Main duties of the job

You will have a background in learning disabilities or relevant experience of working with people with a learning disability and their families. You will need the skills to support the system around our children and young people who will have a severe to profound learning disability and emotional and mental health issues.

Driven by the principles underpinning the Thrive model with the latest in evidence based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children, young people and their families experiencing mental health difficulties.

As part of the multi-disciplinary team you will:

• Undertake school and community based assessments, delivering a range of interventions to children and young people with a learning disability.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of care including working and liaising with multi-disciplinary teams and other agencies.
• Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based interventions in line with the Thrive Model.
• Promote the mental and emotional health of children and young people with learning disabilities and families in the community through clinical interventions.
• Take part in consultation and training to support internal and external agencies regarding children with additional neurodevelopmental diagnosis.

In return, you will receive training and development, supervision and developmental contact with other professional networks as appropriate.

Full job description is attached.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

NELFT is an experienced provider of Mental Health Services for Children and Young People, already providing these services across Essex. It is also one of England’s largest NHS Foundation Trusts. We provide community health services for children and young people with physical health needs in south West Essex and in the four London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

Our priority is providing the highest standard of care to all of our service users.

About NELFT’s SET CAMHS:

NELFT’s SET CAMHS is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in the Southend, Essex and Thurrock areas and is free at the point of entry.

Any young person experiencing emotional wellbeing or mental health problems.

Structure of NELFT’s SET CAMHS:

There are: a Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPA), seven Locality Teams, an Intensive Support Services, a specialist Eating Disorders Team and a specialist Learning Disability Team. These are located across Southend, Essex and Thurrock.

What difficulties can be referred to the service?

Mood and anxiety disorders

Behavioural and conduct disorders

Emerging personality and attachment disorders

Eating disorders

Psychotic disorders

Deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideation

Substance misuse with co-existing mental health needs (dual diagnosis)

Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) - with co-occurring mental health needs where the focus is on the treatment of mental health needs.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - with co-occurring mental health needs

Neurodevelopmental disorders

Prolonged bereavement problems

All referrals to the service are assessed and then we use the Thrive model to offer the support that is needed for the young person, developed in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance criteria (NICE) and based on a best practice model of treatment.

SET CAMHS:

The aim of our SET CAMHS is to respond earlier to children and young people’s needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young people’s mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.

SET CAMHS focuses on the mental health and includes access to self-help tools and services based in schools and the community. We are creating a modern service that fits with children’s lives in a way that best suits them. Key new features include a Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPA) into the service, clear early signposting, and use of digital channels. We are working collaboratively with HCRG (formerly Virgin care) when offering the 'Getting Help' aspect of the Thrive Model.

The service is driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies); evidence based interventions, routine measurement of outcomes, access to high quality training and supervision for professionals and true co-production with children and young people.

Clinicians have to ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all children and young people who need it. This means establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with wider social, health and voluntary services.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

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