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Location

Morden, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

Our team is integrated within Merton Children Social Care. Wework with children from across Social Care, including children in care, children in need and children with child protection plans, their parents, carers and the networks of professionals around them.

The team includes Systemic Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology and a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy. We are a friendly and supportive team – we all have monthly supervision, we receive external group reflective supervision and have lots of peer support!

We promote Systemic ways of thinking and trauma informed practice. We also have close working links with the Merton Tier 3 multidisciplinary service and attend Multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.

CAMHS in Social Care Clinicians provide:
• Consultationsto Social Workers, Foster Carers and other linked professionals around the child.
• Direct Work: assessments and appropriate treatment
• Reflective Group supervisionthat Supports Social Workers to pause and reflect on their complex cases.
• Trainingto Foster Carers and Social Workers – mainly training around systemic ideas and trauma informed practice.

Applicants must:
• Be appropriately qualified with a good understanding of the needs of children/families with complex needs.
• Have skills and experience in building supportive and trusting relationships with children and families.
• Be skilled in building collaborative and meaningful working relationships with Social Workers and other professionals working within Children Social Care.

It’s desirable that applicants have some understanding and/or experience of the Social Care context, of Systemic theory and practice and of trauma informed practice.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Clinical
1. To provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
6. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the child
7. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure children receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people who are under their care.
10. To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychologist / psychotherapist and, where appropriate, other senior colleagues.
2. To gain additional experience and skills relevant to the profession and/or the service (as agreed with the responsible professional and team manager) in accordance with the CAMHS Directorate’s common expectations for P&P staff.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
4. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, including the school cluster.
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service’s operational policies and services (as directed), through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To contribute to a culture that is therapeutic, productive, accessible, inclusive and flexible to meet the needs of the local population.
Research and Service Evaluation
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
Other
1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and service manager(s).
2. To contribute to and commit to undertaking an annual professional development review (PADR).
3. To undertake personal and professional development as identified in the Personal development Plan (PDP) as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
4. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
5. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. For this post these specifically include:
• Current Mental Health Legislation
• Trust, London Borough and pan–London child protection procedures.
• Local and national developments in SWLStG CAMHS
• Risk Assessment and Management
• Clinical Governance
• Local and national developments in line with “Every Child Matters”
• Joint working practices between voluntary and statutory sector
Training and Development
1. To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.
2. To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.
3. To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).

This advert closes on Sunday 3 Mar 2024

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