Job Summary
The Barnet CAMHS in Specialist Schools team is a small dynamic community based team; that sits within the local Specialist schools provision
The team also provides outreach home treatment and support in community settings.
‘The Pavilion’ is the umbrella name for the Specialist schools provision set within Borough Barnet and refers to the following sites:
Meadway: Pupils year 7 to 11 who have been out of mainstream school for some time as a result of medical and/or mental health challenges. The provision works towards reintegrating the pupils back into their mainstream schools or support them to make the transition into a new setting.
Whetstone: Pupil’s year 7 to 11 who have been permanently or temporarily excluded from school. Pupils year 10 and 11 have usually been permanently excluded and are unlikely to reintegrate back into mainstream school due to continuing behavioural, emotional, social difficulties.
Primary PRU: Provided support for Pupils from Reception – Year 6, who have been temporarily or permanently excluded from their mainstream school.
Outreach Service: Pupils who are not able to access education outside of their homes because of medical and/or mental health needs.
Oak Hill Campus: a specialist provision for years 7 to 11, all pupils have an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP).
Main duties of the job
The role of the Senior Mental Health Worker in this setting is to act as an interface between Primary, Secondary and Specialist Education Provision in Barnet and specialist (tier 3) CAMH services with the aims of:
Delivering assessment and treatment in Barnet CAMHS clinical settings and in Education/ Community settings including Specialist Educational Provision at Tier 2,3 and 4.
Supporting and strengthening Tier 1 and 2 CAMHS provision through building capacity and capability within Education, in relation to early identification and intervention for children’s and young peoples mental health needs.
Promoting the mental health and emotional health of children and families in the community, in line with guidance from the NSF 2004 and ‘Future in Mind’.
Early identification of the development of mental health problems in children and young people.
Working across boundaries to develop a co-ordinated response to children’s and young people’s mental health needs between agencies
Facilitating appropriate access to specialist CAMHS and other relevant provision according to level and nature of need.
Providing a direct service to children and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatising environment.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- A relevant Professional Qualification representing a core training in child and adolescent mental health and disorders.
- In depth training and knowledge of various models of understanding mental health and mental disorders in children
Desirable
- Post graduate certificates and diplomas in relevant specialities
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- A minimum of 3 years post graduate experience in CAMHS or a related professional field
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of children across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community and primary care
- Experience of working with children and young people presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of obtaining user views and involving users in the design, delivery and evaluation of service provision
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children, their families, carers and other professional colleagues in education and both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in interpreting complex facts/ situations requiring analysis and considering a range of options
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Skills in implementing clinical and service outcome measures and participation in service audit and evaluation .
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of collecting statistically robust data e.g., understanding methodology used for statistical analysis
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to act independently within appropriate operational guidelines, trust policies and established parameters (Clinical governance and NICE) deciding when to refer to team leader.
- The ability to exercise a high degree of self management and work within time deadlines.
Desirable
- Personal experience of mental health problems.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 21 November 2024
