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Location

Lewisham, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

The CAMHS Virtual School team is a joint venture between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Lewisham CAMHS and Lewisham Virtual School. The team aims to bring a CAMHS perspective to improving emotional wellbeing and readiness to learn of Looked after Children.

The team is designed to be as flexible and responsive as possible to work with the network that is supporting the young person and to identify potential barriers to education, in relation to emotional wellbeing, and devise strategies to manage these. In addition, the service provides direct support to schools working with young people in foster care. Alongside this Lewisham has a school’s team which supports the education outreach service and two Mental Health Support Teams.

The service is also known as DAB which is an umbrella name for VS CAMHS, VS Educational Psychology and the HOP CAMHS service. The name DAB (Dream, Achieve, Believe) was suggested by a care experienced Lewisham resident, and was voted as the favourite name by attendees at the Achievement awards in 2017.
• Increase the awareness and early identification of mental health difficulties in looked after children and young people in education
• Work collaboratively with Lewisham Virtual school to bring a CAMHS perspective to improving emotional wellbeing and readiness to learn of Looked after Children
• Work collaboratively with the network to understand and attend to young people’s wellbeing in relation to their wider school environment.
• To offer CAMHS expertise to the wider professional network including teachers, SENCOs and other professionals within the school system.
• To contribute to assuring service quality by using a specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent mental health theories, evidence-based assessments and interventions to manage complex cases.
• To use and maintain skilled standards of personal professional clinical practice in the treatment modalities required by the children and young people treated by the Team and be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of the Hospital School, Virtual School Service and others.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.

By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities.

Lewisham CAMHS

Lewisham is a borough with very high social needs and high levels of mental illness in adults. The child population of Lewisham aged 0-19 years is now estimated to be 64,000 (UK National Census, 2001). Nearly 8% live in single parent households, above the inner London average and 30% of households in some wards are without a wage earner. Children from black and ethnic minority groups represent 37% of the child population of 0-14 year olds. The number of children looked after by the local authority is approximately 480.

• Facilitate early direct interventions where there are difficulties with education (e.g. assessment, formulation, brief therapeutic interventions with the young person and/or foster carer/parent).
• Enable networks to positively support Looked after Children experiencing these difficulties by providing them with appropriate strategies and skills
• To contribute to the leadership of the service through working closely with senior colleagues to quality assure best practice and the implementation of NICE guidelines across teams.
• To contribute to training, research and audit and interpret complex data to develop own and others understanding of child and adolescent mental disorders.

This advert closes on Monday 11 Mar 2024

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