CAMHS Specialist Practitioner

Our service is underpinned by the principles of The Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (CYP IAPT) which is a service transformation programme delivered by Health Education England and partners that aims to improve existing children and young people's Mental Health Services working in the community.

• Value and facilitate authentic participation of young people, parents, carers, and communities at all levels of the service


• Provide evidence-based practice and are flexible and adaptive to changes in evidence


• Are committed to raising awareness of mental health issues in children and young people, and are active in decreasing the stigma around mental ill-health


• Demonstrate that they are accountable by adopting the rigorous monitoring of the clinical outcomes of the service, and


• Actively work to improve access and engagement with service, Lewisham CWP Service is expanding and therefore looking for a passionate CAMHS practitioner to strengthen our early intervention offer for Lewisham children, young people and their families. As a post holder, you will have some caseload and direct patient contact work. you will also be responsible for supporting and supervising Children's Wellbeing Practitioners, trainees and CAMHS practitioners as well as playing an important role in managing the delivery of the CWP Service:


• Supporting trainees and Children Wellbeing Practitioners to deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health difficulties. It includes supporting the service lead in supporting trainees and qualified CWPs' clinical work, ensuring the quality of care and safeguarding risks.



• Post holder will play an important role in bridging with other internal and external colleagues from other services, working in a multidisciplinary team in a diverse community and assisting CWP Services to develop better services in response to the need of the community. It includes overseeing group intervention, using data to monitor performance and spotting the need for change.


• Post holder will use their specialist intervention skills to work with children and young people who exceed the threshold for guided self-help but meet the i-TRIVE Getting Help domain criteria
  
  Lewisham CAMHS Service


The Directorate is committed to a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency, 4 tiered Service and has been at the forefront, nationally, of developments at Tiers 1 and 2 with Child Mental Health Specialists based in the community and working in GP practices, schools and Early Years Centres. Lewisham CAMHs has teams based on three locations. Three teams based at Kaleidoscope Children's centre: Horizon, our generic service, the Neuro-developmental Team for children and young people with neuro-developmental problems, and the Paediatric Liaison Service that offers a service for children with physical health problems who are being treated by University Hospital Lewisham. Three teams are based at the Lewisham Park site: Symbol, which works with Looked After Children and adopted children; LYPS (Lewisham Young Person Service ) who offer support to adolescents with severe mental health disorders and the Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) who offer a well-being service to children
who present with low mood, mild anxiety or behavioural problems that do not reach the threshold for mainstream CAMHS. The Adolescent Resource Team (ARTS) which is a service for young people who offend or who are at risk of offending are co-located with the Youth Offending Service. In addition to the specialist work conducted within Lewisham, there is access to tier 4 inpatient service at Bethem and Guy's hospital.