South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Under 5’s CAMHS Specialist
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Job Opportunity: Band 7 under 5's CAMHS Practitioner at Lewisham CAMHS
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Horizon Team at Lewisham CAMHS. We are seeking to recruit a Band 7 under 5's CAMHS Practitioner. We are the generic service, part of Lewisham CAMHS and provide specialist assessments and intervention for children and young people who are referred to our team.
Responsibilities
The Post holder will contribute within the Lewisham Parent and Infant Relationship Service which is part of the Lewisham CAMHS Community Service. You will complete assessments and treatment in accordance with the clinical and evidence-based models that are delivered within the service. You will manage your own caseload and provide specialist parent & child group interventions to children and families with moderate to complex presentation.
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.
- Contributing to audit or progress reports on specific aspects of the service developments.
- Having specific responsibilities to contribute to operational systems for referrals to the service, delivering appropriate treatments.
- Sharing day to day responsibility for the quality of delivery of clinical care in the service.
- Supporting the clinical lead in recommending the allocation of clinical work and operating an agreed system of caseload management.
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Duties
- 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.
About Lewisham CAMHS
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.
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Location
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.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Juliette Flower
Job title: Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Email address: juliette.flower@slam.nhs.uk
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