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Location
Greenwich, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
To provide highly specialist assessment of a significant and complex nature in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a childs or adolescents needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence. To assess children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment. To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the Child Protection Register, and parents with mental health difficulties. Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families through the use of an interpreter where families do not yet have sufficient understanding of the English language. To provide evidence based highly specialist time-limited stabilisation work with evidence-based psychoeducation, time-limited evidence-based intervention and family consultation with clinical autonomy, drawing on a range of models and wherever possible brief interventions. To practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system including family members in their varying developmental stages and current emotional state. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child, family or group, and their difficulties. To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for children, adolescents and their families, including couples and groups, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan. To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, and formulate effective care plans in collaboration with the client, family and external agencies. To undertake risk assessment and risk management relevant to individual patients, including protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships, and to do this using the knowledge of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS Team. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop work with families by providing highly specialist knowledge and skills. To provide highly specialist consultation, supervision advice and guidance to other professionals working with families both within the service and in partner agencies. This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with highly complex, emotive and often conflictual issues such as those involving child protection, deliberate self harm, violence, trauma, suicide risk, criminal offending behaviour, sexualised behaviour, and mental health problems of parents. To act as care coordinator, as required, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of care plans and giving consideration to the views of patients, their family, carers, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care. This includes organising complex professional network meetings. To work in accordance with CAMHS and team objectives by adhering to Trust and Directorate policies, including risk assessment in all work, ensuring care plans are in place, recording up to date, attending and contributing a systemic view in case discussion and team meetings. To provide training and professional consultation to the wider AARRC workforce as well as school based and community staff e.g. Health Visitors, G.Ps where appropriate. To facilitate reflective practice for the wider AARRC workforce. To contribute to overall service delivery and development as required. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the development of systemic professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit including CYP-IAPT principles. To advise both service and professional management on all aspects of the service where systemic and/or organisational matters need addressing. To offer line management to the Mental Health Practitioner based within the AARRC. To manage the workloads of supervisees, within the framework of team policies and procedures and oversee clinical standards.
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Salary
£56.39k - £62.79k per annum
