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Key Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities for the Sub-team Lead

• Be responsible and accountable for the team’s service performance.
• Ensure provision of high-quality, evidence-based and cost-effective care for children and young people accessing the team and service.
• Provide clinical leadership for the sub-specialty team.
• Working in collaboration with the other Sub-Team Lead and Consultant Psychiatrist to deliver outcomes for the team.
• Implement and embed the CAMHS clinical model of brief intervention through defined care pathways.
• Contribute to systems for achieving agreed targets, including evaluating capacity and clinical activity to improve waiting times and throughput.
• Provide assurance that staff access appropriate case management and therapy supervision in line with Service Line and Trust policies.
• Support evaluation of clinical outcomes at subspecialist team level.
• Create a culture of continuous quality improvement and contribute actively to service quality-improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the local Care Quality and Performance Group and clinical-effectiveness systems and processes.
• Support review of skill mix and recruitment to deliver service objectives.
• Participate in planning, distribution and allocation of clinical, administrative, professional and managerial tasks.
• Contribute to evidence-based clinical practice and guidelines, local partnership work and stakeholder meetings when delegated.

Clinical

• Deliver generic CAMHS assessments of children and young people referred to the Neurodevelopmental Team within required timescales.
• Contribute to Neurodevelopment Assessments, Conduct ADHD assessments and Contribute to Autism assessments as required (training for this can be provided within the role).
• Formulate and implement evidence-based care plans across the full range of care settings.
• Implement a range of short- and long-term systemic psychotherapy interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups within the Neurodevelopmental Pathway.
• Evaluate treatment options using relevant theoretical and therapeutic models and consideration of highly complex factors.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge.
• Provide specialist systemic consultation, formulation, expertise and guidance that contributes to assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and multidisciplinary decision-making.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management, and advise other professionals on these matters.
• Act as care coordinator or lead professional, initiating and reviewing CAMHS care plans.
• Communicate assessment, formulation and treatment information in a skilled and sensitive manner.
• Participate in the community duty rota.
• Support the duty rota as lead on-site a few times a month.

To be noted: This list is not exhaustive; the post holder may be required to undertake additional duties consistent with the grade.

The job description will be reviewed periodically in line with service needs.

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MSc/MA in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy, UKCP registration and post qualifying experience
• UKCP registration as family therapist

Desirable criteria

• Post-qualification training in additional CAMHS related specialised areas
• Post-qualification training in teaching and supervision of child family therapy
• CYP IAPT training/Supervisor training OR accredited supervisor with the Association for Family Therapy (AFT).
• Qualification in core mental health or social welfare profession (e.g. social work, mental health nursing, psychology, occupational therapy) and significant post qualification experience
• Up-to-date safeguarding children training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS team
• Experience in supervising as Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
• Experience developing and delivering bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisal

Core Competencies

Essential criteria

• Confident and competent in generic, specialist neurodevelopmental and emergency/urgent CAMHS assessment
• Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
• Competent in Risk and safeguarding assessment
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
• Experience of family and parenting work and has comprehensive understanding of the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
• Cultural Competent
• Leading on provision of consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
• Engage in psychoeducation supporting self-management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
• Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotations, peer support, training and skills development
• Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
• Active use of supervision and professional- development opportunities for development of skills
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
• Effective engagement, excellent communication and able to foster strong alliances

Specialist Competencies

Essential criteria

• Experience of undertaking and supervising specialist family therapy assessment
• Experience, knowledge and skills in family therapy intervention, group therapy and supervision with children, adolescents and families
• Experience undertaking neurodevelopmental assessment within the ND pathway

Desirable criteria

• Experience of running parenting groups (Triple P, NVR, SPACE,Mellow, Webster Stratton, etc) and other types of group work group such as multi- family group
• Experience of undertaking assessment of parenting capacity as part of court directed parenting assessments

Administration and Record Keeping

Essential criteria

• Able to use Word and Excel to write reports and analyse and present basic data.
• Competent with clinical recording systems such as SystmOne and RiO
• Understands importance of safe, secure and relevant clinical record keeping
• Able to use email in line with CNWL policy
• Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations

Desirable criteria

• Use of SystemOne

Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics

Essential criteria

• Able to build constructive and collaborative relationships with Family Therapists and the Wider MDT
• Treats service users with respect and dignity