North London NHS Foundation Trust
CAMHS Practitioner, Camden Adolescent Intensive Support Service
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We are looking for experienced nurses or practitioners with an interest in CAMHS Crisis intervention to join the Camden Adolescent Intensive Support Service (CAISS).
We work with young people aged 12-18 experiencing a mental health crisis living in the Borough of Camden.
A young person accessing CAISS may experience some, if not all of the below:
- Experiencing an acute mental health crisis, or be chronically high risk of harm to themselves or others due to their behaviours.
- At risk of a Tier 4 admission without intensive support.
- A history of or currently experiencing an inpatient admission.
- Challenges in engaging with other services.
- Several predisposing and/or precipitating risk factors present in their life.
- Require support with multiple aspects of their life (e.g. school, mental health, familial relationships, substance use etc) and therefore need a flexible, holistic approach.
We use a variety of therapeutic approaches in CAISS and have the capacity to see young people up to 5 times per week if needed. The work we do is often informed by elements of CBT, DBT, systemic psychotherapy, care coordination, nursing models, psychiatry and trauma-informed approaches.
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We work closely with the wider CAMHS teams to support young people into long-term treatment and build support networks amongst Camden’s strong community & voluntary sector, schools and local authority.
Why join us?
The benefits of working in our community CAMHS CAISS team include:
- A nurse-led multidisciplinary team that strives for a flattened hierarchy and values everyone’s contributions.
- We offer a comprehensive induction programme when you start working with us to ensure you are fully supported to settle into your new role.
- Strong training and progression opportunities.
- Close working with the wider CAMHS multi-disciplinary team to enable continuity of care to young people, offering exposure to a range of CAMHS therapeutic models and interventions.
- You will be joining a well-established team with a record of clinical excellence, having had success at reducing the number of inpatient CAMHS admissions across the borough of Camden consistently since its inception.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
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- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
- Excellent internal staff network.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Alex Finnegan
- Job title: Clinical Lead - CAISS
- Email address: AFinnegan@Tavi-Port.nhs.uk
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