Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

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Clinical To provide comprehensive specialist assessments, including risk assessment of children, young people and their families/carers referred with moderate, complex and severe mental health problems. To provide consultation / training to other professionals who come into contact with children, young people and their families/carers. To write confidential reports that may have wide-ranging implications for children, young people and their families. To convey sensitive, complex and sometimes unwelcome information to clients and other professionals and manage this as constructively as possible. To be a resource of specialist advice, specifically relating to the common emotional and behavioural problems and disorders of children and young people, to colleagues within the MHSTs, school staff and other professionals. To provide consultation to professionals in creating management plans for children and young people referred to the MHST. To liaise with and where appropriate participate in joint work with other members of the MHST, partner services and others within City & Hackney CAMHS. To offer and provide a liaison and consultation service to school staff, primary care clinicians and other key agencies working with children, young people and their families/carers referred with complex and severe mental health problems. To support the development of interventions, consultation and psychoeducation approaches regarding prevention and resilience building and health promotion. To act as care co-ordinator for an identified caseload and to be responsible for the coordination of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic packages of care provided by the MHSTs. To provide packages of care and psycho-education for the young people and their families/ carers that takes account of the complexities of family systems and their significant social networks. To attend regular clinical supervision. Administration To maintain accurate clinical records in accordance with service standards and to record and maintain patient data in local database systems (RiO) and the trust wide electronic CPA database. To aid line-managed staff to achieve this commitment. Management To provide line management to junior staff, including sickness reporting, appraisals and reviews, and ensuring mandatory training is kept up to date. Performance and Quality To ensure that the needs of the client group is paramount, and be aware of and adhere to ACPC Guidelines relating to Child Protection. To support the development and implementation of project work with schools commensurate with the MHSTs forward plan To help to develop standards underpinned by theory and research. To keep up to date with appropriate legislation in line with CAMHS. To be responsible for personal development and education in line with statutory, mandatory and professional requirements. To be involved in audit and research projects undertaken by the service. To work within professional and ethical frameworks established by national bodies such as the DOH, UKCCP, NMC, HPC and RCP. To ensure documentation and care plans are comprehensive and of the highest standard in line with Trust policy. Be responsible for monitoring and recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients e.g. service users, families and carers, other professionals orally and in writing To provide service related information to senior managers and staff to aid day-to-day service management and future planning.