Southwark CAMHS Clinical Specialist

Job overview

The post holder will be a care coordinator, assessing and treating children and young people in the team working in collaboration with the multiple disciplinary teams (MDT).   The post holder will also be involved in supporting and advising parents and carers of C&YP referred to the service as well as offering consultation and advice to their professional networks. The post holder may be expected to offer supervision to junior colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in the assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to CAMHS.

Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact are accurate, up to date, of good quality and within CAMHS and professional requirement standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS

Work with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment. Work to assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems

To maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of children, young people and their families

To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS Teams in terms of referrals and joint work. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate

Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will carry out mental health & risk assessments on children & young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively.

You will work with other CAMHS clinicians in the service from all disciplines.  You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children are co-ordinated efficiently across agencies. This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice.

Assume responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk

Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention.  Design, write and share a copy of the care plan with children, young people and their carers

Assess safeguarding issues and refer concerns to Child Protection teams

Deliver interventions for children and young people who have self-harmed/are in crisis or presenting with other mental health concerns; the treatment interventions provided would be based on NICE guidelines and evidence based practice

Use individual, group work, family work, advice and supervision according to the needs of children and young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to packages of care

Participate and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families and other agencies as required

Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.