CAMHS Senior Clinician - Disordered Eating
Job Description
Job summary
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides specialist mental health support for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health needs. The service delivers face-to-face assessments and therapeutic interventions.
We are seeking a senior clinician with experience of working therapeutically with children and young people with complexemotional needs. You will be responsible for the clinical delivery and oversight of our new disordered eating pathway across Herefordshire and Worcestershire core CAMHS.
You will hold a caseload of approx. 12-14 CYP and will deliver therapeutic interventions at all CAMHS bases across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Key Responsibilities:
- Holding a defined caseload and providing evidenced based therapeutic interventions to children and young people with complex emotional needs
- Leading on MDT and have clinical oversight of the disordered eating pathway
- Providing education and training to staff
- Providing supervision, consultation and advice to staff and system members
- Being an active member of the leadership team and role modelling Trust behaviours to all
- Undertaking regular travel to all bases across Herefordshire and Worcestershire
We encourage interested candidates to contact us to chat about the role before applying. Please contact Marie Tibbetts [email protected]
Main duties of the job
- About You:
- You will have significant previous experience of undertaking evidenced based psychological therapeutic interventions to support children and young people with complex emotional needs.
- You will have experience of autonomously leading on clinical pathways
- You will have experience of providing clinical supervision and consultation to clinical staff
- You will be solution- focused, driven and passionate in delivering high standards of care to children, young people and families
What you'll be doing
- Providing high-quality evidenced based therapeutic assessments and interventions to support children and young people who present with disordered eating
- Undertaking consultation on, advice for and review of referrals in which disordered eating is a primary concern
- Providing supervision and training to clinical staff
- Clinical leadership of the disordered eating pathway and MDT
- Liaising with clinicians, families, and external agencies
- Leading on care planning for identified cohort of children and young people
- Managing data, outcomes and undertaking clinical service evaluation
- Undertaking clinical audits
Why join us?
You'll be part of a supportive and committed team that makes a real difference to the lives of children, young people, and their families.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer;
- 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
- Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
- Flexible and agile working opportunities
- Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
- Wide range of supportive staff networks
- Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our website.
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Job responsibilities
- Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
- Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the commissioned CAMHS Disordered Eating service across Herefordshire & Worcestershire, to meet the mental health needs of the children and, young people
- Provide professional leadership, day-to-day supervision and support for clinical staff, to take on a consultative role, based on developing skills, experience and expertise within the wider service.
- Use advanced expertise and knowledge to take on management of the most complex cases or oversee and support colleagues in doing so.
- Be responsible for a defined caseload and ensure full compliance with Ttrust policies and protocols at all times.
- Be required to work flexibly across the Trust to meet the needs of the service
- Effectively manage a defined caseload as key worker, fully implementing all agreed care plans and ensuring that they are regularly reviewed.
- Undertake Choice assessments and deliver planned treatment through partnership work, using a range of evidence-based approaches to care.
- Undertake clinician led clinics.
- Utilise the appropriate frameworks to identify, refer, monitor and support children in need, working in partnership with external agencies.
- Prepare clinical reports e.g. Safeguarding and to support junior staff in doing so.
- Participate in and deliver appropriate clinical and safeguarding supervision.
- Provide highly specialised advice/clinical guidance concerning best practice to colleagues or external agencies where necessary.
- Develop and maintain team communication systems which ensure effective 2-way dissemination of information in relation to all team and provider services activity, in liaison with other teams and agencies as required.
- Liaise and work in partnership with colleagues from statutory and voluntary agencies including schools, early help providers, stronger families, childrens social care, other Trust staff/services and acute agencies, children and families, in pursuit of health gain for the population.
- Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using developed interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Positively promote the CAMHS service.
- Support the collection, monitoring and evaluation of data related to CAMHS in line with Trust policy and local and national requirements.
- Ensure that each service user receives an individual assessment and is given a regularly updated care plan which, wherever practicable, is formulated in conjunction with the Service User and approved by the post holder as senior clinician.
- Support and lead other mental health practitioners to ensure quality outcomes throughout the service.
- Organise, plan and provide practice-based learning for all team members and students.
- Contribute to workforce planning, the development of training needs analysis and plans.
- Act as the senior clinician for their discipline representing the discipline at strategic meetings, disseminating knowledge and leading development as appropriate.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Demonstrates commitment to own professional development
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of research and clinical governance
- Knowledge of Public Health developments / agenda
- Knowledge of current NHS and national priorities in relation to mental and emotional health and wellbeing of Children and Young People
- Knowledge of the wider influences which impact on service delivery e.g. the commissioning agenda
Experience
Essential
- Experience in undertaking research projects / clinical audits
- Significant recent and relevant clinical experience post-registration
- Previous experience providing a service to children and young people within a multi-disciplinary team
- Able to demonstrate evidence-based practice
- Leadership experience / experience managing a clinical team
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