Job summary
Brent CAMHS is seeking to recruit an dedicated, dynamic individual to strengthen the Brent CAMHS assessment team to provide a high quality assessments to children and young people with mental health concerns as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. The primary role is to provide direct clinical assessment and treatment to clients and their families.

The post holder will provide advice and consultation to other members of the multidisciplinary teams and clinical and performance management supervision to trainees and less experienced professionals where appropriate and where identified in their Personal Development Plan.

Main duties of the job

• To provide initial CAMHS mental health assessments drawing on professional training and experience and clinical skills as well as appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of evidence based sources including the use of routine outcome measures, rating scales, and semi-structured interviews with clients / families.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal clinical treatment and/or management of emotional and behavioural difficulties of clients, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality and with reference to appropriate clinical guidelines and care pathways (e.g. NICE, CEG).
• The post holder will ensure CYP routine outcome measures are completed and include family members where appropriate.
• To evaluate assessments and recommend treatment options with the wider MDT, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by standard care plans.
• Assess and manage clinical risk to self and others for child and adolescent clients as an ongoing process.

Rider Clause
This is an outline of the post holders duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of the Trust and Department.

About us
Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people with mental health difficulties, neurological conditions or emotional disorders? Brent CAMHS needs you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident CAMHS Practitioner with a demonstrable track record of working within a CAMHS setting and evidence of providing high quality evidence-based CAMHS assessment, interventions and service improvements.

This role will be suitable for either Mental Health Nurse (RMN), a Learning Disability Nurse with CAMHS experience, with the appropriate professional registration.

The successful applicant will be joining a comprehensive and dynamic Brent CAMHS generic Assessment Team.

Brent is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse community. We welcome applicants who are skilled at working within the richness and complexity of multiculturally diverse context.

Brent CAMHS is proud of its achievements as winner of 2024 CNWL Team of the Year award, the first ever CAMHS team to develop ADHD medication initiation e-platform in the Country. The e-platform provides information to assist with making decision about starting medication for ADHD.

To find out more about working in CAMHS please Apply through our website for one of our CAMHS videos.

Person specification
Education and qualification
Essential

• Professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing (RMN) or RNLD
• Professional registration with the appropriate recognized body

Desirable

• Recent Safeguarding children training
• Research training
• Non-Medical Prescriber

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working within multidisciplinary CAMHS team
• Experience of providing specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment
• Experience of working with a wide variety of age groups, presenting with mental health problems, including children with learning disabilities.
• Experience of delivering evidence based treatment using a range of modalities in a number of cultural contexts
• Experience of working within NHS setting

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Supervised experience of other evidence based treatment in relation to children with mental health problems

Knowledge & Skills
Essential

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Experience of assessing mental health risk and safeguarding concerns
• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance and as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

Desirable

• Knowledge of CAMHS legislation
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Experience of planning and delivery group treatments

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential

• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
• Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
• Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
• Able to prioritize own workload and meet performance requirements for the role
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
• Honesty, enthusiasm for area of work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.