CAMHS Practitioner

Job overview

Come and work in North East Essex NELFT’s SET CAMHS team , and be part of one of the UK’s most innovative healthcare Trusts.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent contract in our team, suitable for a graduate qualified health professional (e.g nurse, social worker, occupational therapist, creative therapist, and someone with clinical CAMHS experience or similar) to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in Colchester, Essex.

You will have a background in either child mental health or other relevant experience of working with Children young people and their families. It would be helpful if you have additional training in CBT, DBT, Systemic, Family Work, EMDR or other recognised modality. You will need the skills to support young people who have a presentation of complex emotional or 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.

You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

You will:

• Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions such as high anxiety, suicidal ideation, self harming and low mood.
• Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the team.
• Undertake initial clinic based and community based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate
• Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the Thrive Mode

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.

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,

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

• 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.