Job overview

To provide specialist mental health intervention within Core CAMHS, including assessment, care planning, treatment and case management of children/young people with moderate to severe mental health concerns.

To provide consultation, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team who provide care and treatment. 

Our current MDT includes SALT, social work, CBT trained therapists, EMDR trained therapist as well as psychologist, medics NMP’s, providing a wide range of knowledge, experience and support to ensure that the service users receive outstanding quality of treatment.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of practice with the specialism. 

Main duties of the job

For the full list of Key Responsibilities please refer to the job description:

·     To plan and implement formal mental health  treatment and/or management of a child/young person’s mental health problems, based upon the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.

·     To provide specialist assessment of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and interrogation of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interview with clients, family members and others involved in the child/young person’s care

·     To implement appropriate psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining formulations drawing up on different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

·     To evaluate and make decisions regarding treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical developmental processes, for example Trauma that have shaped the individual.

·     To make judgements on an individual basis involving highly sensitive and complex information and/or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and the comparison of a range of options, and to provide support to other team members regarding their clinical decision making and risk assessment.

·     To carry a complex case load, using advanced clinical skills.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.