Specialist CAMHS Practitioner

To provide a qualified specialist service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care 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., To provide initial CAMHS 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).

Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress using CYP-IAPT routine outcome measures and include family members where appropriate

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options 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.

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 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), Social Worker, Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist 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.