Parenting / Carer Pathway Lead | East London NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Psychological Therapist with experience of supporting young people in Mental health Crisis and their families in the community to be part of the new CAMHS Intensive Community Crisis Service, developing across East London. The post holder will lead on the development and implementation of a parenting/systemic formulation to facilitate evidence based parenting interventions for families accessing support via the team. This relates to the dissemination of evidenced based practices and coordination/provision of high-quality supervision and parenting skills development within the workforce. Part of the role will be to supervise CAMHS professionals who deliver parenting/ systemic interventions. The post holder will provide high quality systemic assessments, evidence based interventions and consultation to client systems including children young people their families, carers and professional networks. As a psychological therapy resource to the team, they will work collaboratively with CYP, families and multi-disciplinary colleagues to formulate effective care plans of intensive community support and interventions for CYP. The East London CAMHS Intensive Community Crisis Service is a team developing across East London that, when fully established will operated Monday-Sunday 09:00-17:00 and aim to provide the following for CYP based in City & Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets:

• Multi-disciplinary support including assessment, diagnosis and treatment to CYP with serious mental illness where inpatient admission would otherwise be required or as part of supported discharge
• Interventions and support provided by ICCS may be up for up to 8 weeks and include individual work, family work, psychiatric assessment, medication management, psycho-education, work on activities of daily living, multi-agency liaison, collaborative care planning, facilitated integration into community resources - as close to home as possible
• Empower children and young people to recover from mental health crisis
The post holder will be expected to manage, plan and prioritise own clinical caseload and to exercise a degree of autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment, including management of risks. This is done independently within appropriate clinical/professional guidelines. They will work closely with the Team Manager for ICCS and relevant colleagues to develop specialist training, teaching and consultation in order to enhance systemic thinking and practice across the team and for the multi-agency professionals involved. They will support with the line management and clinical supervision of staff within EL Crisis Services as required, in line with People & Culture policies. They will contribute to wide team functions such as being part of service rotas' including duty and being involved in service development work such as audits, quality improvement, and research and service evaluation. The post holder will need to work flexibly across the three boroughs, based on the needs of CYP and their families. Appointments will be conducted as according to these individuals and may take place in a variety of locations - such as patient homes, local community settings, community CAMHS sites or in inpatient wards when needed.