Job overview

The post holder will be an integral part of a specialist community CAMHS team in the Bromley integrated Single Point of Access (iSPA), delivered in partnership with Bromley Y, a local Third Sector organisation. The integrated SPA manages all referrals for children and young people with mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties in Bromley.

The post holder will work within the team to provide efficient and effective delivery of the CAMHS iSPA Service. This includes ensuring high quality, safe and responsive interventions are provided to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals, who are referred to the team and/or iSPA.

Main duties of the job

·       Responding to all referrals into the service, in a timely manner according to pre agreed KPIs.

·       To respond to all queries, offer advice and consultation within the face paced, dynamic part of the team which is currently responding to a high level of demand. This role provides great opportunities for learning about wider mental health issues and wider service pathways.

·       Deliver initial assessments, workshops, short term pieces of clinical work, training and consultation.

·    To work with Bromley Y and other partnership agencies to ensure CYP mental health services are delivered according to local objectives and joint care strategies

·       To be able to assess and manage risk in children and young people and to do this on an on-going basis.

·       To effectively and appropriately communicate risks often under difficult, highly charged and emotional circumstances. 

·       To ensure that own practice remains within legal, ethical, and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from relevant professionals.

·       To possess IT skills in order to effectively communicate in writing with colleagues, other professionals and families in accordance with trust policies e.g. writing of comprehensive report. 

·       To ensure live registration with appropriate professional body, e.g. NMC. 

·    To take responsibility to record own supervision in case notes or in supervision records in order to be able to reflect on the supervision process. 

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care