Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

This is a community-based post, located within the CAMHS in Social Care Team (CISC) here in Tower Hamlets. The team are based across the CAMHS Emanuel Miller Centre in Limehouse as well as the Local Authority Town Hall in Whitechapel. The CiSC team offers accessible, flexible, timely and responsive CAMHS input to children, young people and their families who are subject to Social Care plans (LAC, CP or CIN).

It is a multidisciplinary team offering consultation to Social Worker and the wider children's workforce as well as assessment, care planning and clinical intervention to the children and families that they work with where there are mental health concerns. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

The post holder will offer assessment and flexible, evidence-based episodes of care and interventions to children/young people and families for a wide variety of clinical presentations. The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

ELFT has a strong ethos of Quality Improvement and we are keen to continually develop our service.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

You can see what our service users want from you at:

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

For more information and/or an informal discussion, please contact:
Peter Cox, Team Lead, CAMHS in Social Care Team -

• Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession including:
  Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Occupational Therapist / Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health) / Social Worker / Art Therapist
• Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g. BSc, Masters or Doctorate
• Registration with your appropriate body (e.g. UKCP, NMC, HCP etc.)
• Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period

• Previous experience of working in CAMHS
• Experience of working with (assessment, formulation and treating) a wide range of CAMHS clinical presentations
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management
• Experience of working with children, young people and families in emotional crisis
• Experience of care planning and delivering episodes of evidence based interventions
• Experience, skills and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Experience of working with partner agencies to support children and young people
• Experience of working in a culturally diverse area and inner city area, and delivering culturally sensitive care
• Experience of working providing modified interventions for children and young people who may have mental health needs in the context of neurovariance
• Experience of delivering evidence based psychological interventions for trauma and demonstrating trauma-informed practice
• Experience of delivering brief, consultative interventions

• A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback
• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS (such as Child Protection Guidelines, THRIVE Framework, Green Paper) and relevant legislation (e.g. Children's Act)
• In depth knowledge of CAMHS issues including assessment and interventions
• Knowledge of standard setting and audit implementation
• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS assessments evidence based interventions
• Evidence of clinical skills required to work with children and young people with mental health needs in the context of neurovariance
• Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
• Able to manage own time and caseload
• Basic computer skills

• Commitment to equal opportunities
• Self-motivated, assertive and flexible
• Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed children, adolescents and their families/carer networks
• Freedom to act:
  Physical effort:
  Confined sitting position (therapy) ;travelling within community
• Mental effort: writing reports; planning teaching; concentrating for therapy sessions /clinical supervision; managing psychiatric emergencies; precise accuracy when administering medication (for nurses)
• Emotional effort:
  Dealing with families in…