Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Bexley CAMHS Aims
•    To enable children and young people to reach their potential and to live fulfilling lives. 
•    To provide high quality, evidence-based services to children, young people and their families or carers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. 
•    To provide mental health services with a child and family centred approach in which each child is seen as an individual in the context of their familial, ethnic, cultural, social and educational systems. 
•    To work in partnership with a broad range of professionals and organisations working with children from social care, health and the voluntary and private sector.  
•    To provide short, medium and long term interventions based on levels of complexity and chronicity utilising a wide range of evidence-based treatments. 
•    To provide services flexibly in order that they are accessible to all children and young people who need them e.g., by offering clinical sessions in various settings and localities across the borough. 
•    To provide services in a way that minimises the potential stigma for young people and their families/carers in accessing mental health care. 
•    To provide services where safeguarding children is paramount i.e., identifying safeguarding risks of various kinds and taking appropriate action. 
•    To ensure mental health needs and risks are assessed and identified. That service users requiring a service are managed within the Care Programme Approach and an appropriate treatment/care plan and risk management plan agreed. The plan is developed in partnership with and will reflect the views of service users.   
•    To provide services that are accessible to all sections of the local community and work towards overcoming barriers for young people from black and ethnic minorities and other marginalised and vulnerable groups in accessing CAMHS, including looked after and adopted children.  
•    To provide a safe and smooth transition to adult services for young people requiring ongoing mental health interventions and care.  
•    To arrange appropriate access to inpatient care as required, to maintain a relationship with the young person, work collaboratively with the inpatient provider and work proactively to facilitate safe discharge to the community. 
•    To systematically obtain service user feedback and where possible to involve service users in service development.  
•    To work with young people, families and carers to ensure they are given the information and guidance they need throughout their care.    
•    To work towards achieving the priorities as set out in Bexley Children and Young Peoples Plan.