This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician with experience of working with Children Looked After (CLA) to join an experienced CAMHS team that is co-located with Children's Social Care. This specialist role will be across two services areas:
delivering our core clinical model in CLA and Fostering
supporting reunification of children and young people with their birth families.
The core clinical role has a consultative focus, including offering group and individual consultation to Social Workers. The role will have a small clinical caseload of direct work with CLA, carers and birth parents.
This role has an exciting additional focus on reunification. It will involve both direct and indirect clinical intervention with young people, birth parents and the wider network to support successful reunification.
Our work is framed within a stepped model of care; and is guided by Islington CLA's Practice Models (DDP, Mentalisation, Motivational Practice, Return Home).
We are a dynamic, multidisciplinary team and offer opportunities for continued professional development and reflective practice.
We encourage applications from all sections of the community to develop a team which is more representative of our client groups.
To provide specialist mental health advice and consultation to social workers in the Children Looked After Service to support their practice and management of young people presenting with a range of presentations and needs.
To attend group supervision, sharing clinical and mental health knowledge and expertise to contribute to case discussion.
To facilitate consultations with social workers and supervising social workers, to enhance their trauma-informed, relationship based-practice with children and caregivers.
To provide specialist mental health assessment, formulation and interventions with children, young people and care-givers
To provide specialist evidence-based intervention for looked after children and carers, drawing on innovative ways of engagement and intervention.
To provide specialist evidence-based interventions for birth parents which will aid reunification, including processing of their experiences of having a child removed and relational work to rebuild the parent-child relationship.
To formulate and devise clinical management plans for a range of specialist psychological interventions; individual, family and group.
To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, as required.
To liaise with professionals in health, mental health, education, social care and voluntary sector services, as required.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
MAIN DUTIES
Consultation and Clinical Work
To provide highly specialist mental health advice and consultation to social workers Islington's service for CLA and Care Experienced Young People - to support their practice and management of children and young people aged 0-18 with a range of presentations and needs.
To attend group supervision, sharing clinical and mental health knowledge and expertise to contribute to case discussion.
To facilitate individual and joint consultations with social workers, supervising social workers, and other professionals in the parenting team, to enhance their trauma and DDP informed practice.
Teaching, training and supervision
To attend regular clinical supervision and participate in team and service training, as required.
To provide clinical supervision and line management of trainees and other CAMHS staff, as required by the team and service.
Management, policy and service development
To provide line management for junior clinicians within the service as required by the Team Managers.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
Research and service evaluation
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members
General
To demonstrate anti-discriminatory practice in all aspects of the role
To ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s line manager.
