Under 5’s CAMHS Specialist

Your main duties include working in partnership with Social Services, Parental mental Health/Perinatal, Adult Mental Health, Family Hubs, Child Health and key partner to support integrated practice and service delivery. Ensuring records are up to date clinical records and be required to complete and provide reports to networks.

You will also be required to contribute to audit or progress reports on specific aspects of the service developments. You will have some specific responsibilities to contribute to operational systems for referrals to the service, delivering appropriate treatments. To share day to day responsibility for the quality of delivery of clinical care in the service. To support the clinical lead in recommending the allocation of clinical work and operating an agreed system of caseload management.

Manage day to day clinical risks and clinically advise team members on courses of action. Ensure that team members follow systems of safe practice and that operational policies are adhered to. Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS, SLAM & professional requirement standards of record keeping. Ensure that data and information on clinical activity is collected and entered onto ePJS.

Experience and ability to function as an infant/child practitioner and adolescent mental health

Experience of working as a care coordinator in infant/child/ child and adolescents mental health

Evidence of good practice in infant/child/child and adolescent mental health assessments, assessments of behaviour and performance, family functioning

Experience in carrying out specialist infant/child mental health assessments and treatments for under 5s population

Evidence of providing CAMHS interventions in group, individual and family work, multidisciplinary work.

Evidence of experience of clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision

A good working knowledge of mental health disorders in infant, children and adolescents.

A good working knowledge of Difficulties common to Looked After Children and children families facing adversity e.g., attachment difficulties

Knowledge of current legislation and clinical governance (Children Act 1989, 2004 and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998 and Mental Capacity Act 2005, Child protection procedures).

Knowledge of assessment of risk and management of risk factors

Good working knowledge of difficulties in the Perinatal period and maternal mental health difficulties.

Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions

Ability to work under pressure.

Ability work effectively with the MDT to take on new concepts.

Good written and verbal presentation skills and basic IT.

Ability to work within a changing environment Ability to be reflective in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection

Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides a diagnostic, assessment, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders, including those at high risk or those with more severe and persistent problems. The service's Specialist Multidisciplinary Teams include: Horizon (generic); Neuro Developmental Team; Symbol (Looked After and Adopted CYP); LYPS (severe and enduring mental health problems); ARTS (at risk forensic); Paediatric Liaison Service; MHST (Mental Health in Schools); CWP (Child Wellbeing Practitioners); Intake; and Crisis. Lewisham CAMHS focuses on providing high quality mental health support to young people locally. We continually identify and address any potentially barriers or inequalities in regards to access to, and input from, our service, as well as continually improving areas of staff wellbeing and equality within the staff group.

This post is clinically based within the generic team (Horizon) and the leadership component extends to the rest of Lewisham CAMHS. Horizon is a dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in the Kaleidoscope Centre in Catford, an award-winning purpose-built building that brings together specialist community services for health, disability, mental health, education and social care.

Essential: - All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) , Health & Care Professional's Council (HPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). Relevant professional training will include: First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV with related CAMHS experience or any as follows:First level qualification in Occupational therapy, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience.; - Qualification as a Systemic Psychotherapist (Family Therapist) with relevant CAMHS experience.

Desirable: - Infant Observation Training oTraining in Clinical supervision

Essential: - Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs; - Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and lived experience.; - Significant post-qualification/graduation experience including experience of individual and group therapy with people with complex mental health needs; - Experience in carrying out specialist child and adolescent mental health assessments and treatments for under 5s population.

Desirable: - Experience of running/observing therapeutic parenting groups

Essential: - Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.; - Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these; - Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour

Desirable: - Training in VIPP, Circle of Security, Watch, Wait and Wonder