Specialist Practitioner | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

The integrated care board (ICB) have invested in the development of a new Community Intensive Support pilot for children and young people (CYP) with Autism residing in Merton, Wandsworth, Sutton, Kingston, and Richmond. The Dynamic Support Team, a new pilot service is a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team that offers specialist intensive interventions for Children and Young People already under community CAMHS and on the Dynamic Support register. We are pleased to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced, and committedSpecialist Practitionerto join the Dynamic Support Team and to be at the forefront of developing the service alongside the rest of the team. You will work with highly skilled mental health professionals who are committed to supporting home and community-based care, facilitating safe discharge, and reducing young people's length of stay, should admission become necessary. It is essential to be committed to safe and effective team working. The role includes individual, family and group work and the provision of telephone support to young people. The pilot will help shape an effective and consistent model of care in South-West London, which aims to bridge the gap between community services and inpatient care, whilst also strengthening longer term local services for autistic young people long. The service operates 5 days a week 9-5pm.

• To be a member of the Dynamic Support Team, working closely with the multi-disciplinary Dynamic Support Team to provide specialist assessment, interventions, and consultations to a small group of young people, families, cares agencies or services around the young person.
• To provide highly specialist clinical services to a small number of children, young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families / carers across all sectors of care - providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance
• Providing telephone support in a crisis, supporting young people and families at home to manage periods of distress and upset, and to develop positive ways of managing and coping.
• Co-facilitating therapeutic groups or activities.
• The post holder will also work very closely with families/carers to help support and provide education in managing and responding to a young person's needs
• To complete audit, quality improvement, and research.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision of the trainee and junior staff in the team.
• This role involves independent daily travel across South West London and involves some lone working, within a close supervision structure., To provide highly specialist assessment and intervention services to a small number of children and young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families/carers across all sectors of care, providing evidence-based assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
• To carry a caseload and coordinate care for those children, young people, and families on the caseload.
• To provide outreach work within various locations, including but not limited to inpatient settings, schools, homes, community placements, and local CAMHS districts (across South West London) as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
• To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific treatment modalities and by providing clinical input to supervisees' PADRs.
• Within supervision and team meetings, to support and promote the use of outcome measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
• To seek opportunities to include young people perspectives in service delivery and development throughout the pilot duration.
• To work with the Clinical Service Manager to support the work of a specific team or service area.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for a small caseload children and young people with ASD.
• To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
• To act as mental health care coordinator, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.
• To collect and evaluate data to support reporting back on KPI's as part of the pilot.
  
  We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'. This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do. We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive. About our locations: Springfield University Hospital, Tooting Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. The Adolescent Outreach Team base is at Springfield University Hospital and our inpatient adolescent unit, Aquarius, is also on the site. However, please be mindful that AOT provides a service across the whole 5 boroughs of South West London and provides predominantly home-based care.