CAMHS Transition Worker

NHS; Bromley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to pilot a new Transition Worker post across Children and Young People and Adult Community Mental Health Services. The postholder will work with young people with mental health needs who will be transitioning from Bromley CAMHS to Bromley ADAPT. This will form part of a pilot project aimed at testing a new pathway and improving the experience of young people and their families.

Main duties of the job

They will oversee the clinical service to clients transitioning from Bromley CAMHS to Bromley ADAPT, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychosocial care to colleagues across CAMHS and ADAPT. They will provide consultation and supervision where appropriate to qualified staff and trainees, working autonomously within service and professional guidelines, and within multi-disciplinary teams, contributing to service delivery as required.

They will spend half their clinical time in Bromley CAMHS and half in Bromley ADAPT, with some protected time for evaluation, audit, and project planning. They will be expected to attend Multidisciplinary Team meetings (MDTs) in both Bromley CAMHS and Bromley ADAPT and join transition planning meetings.

They will work with a small caseload who will be on a pathway of transition from Bromley CAMHS to Bromley ADAPT service. With this caseload, the postholder will be expected to carry out the following tasks: engagement with the young person and family, engagement with the wider network (i.e., education, social care, primary care), care planning, risk planning, crisis support, and offering psychosocial assessment and treatment as appropriate, building current skills relevant to their professional background and experience.

There will be opportunities to develop the postholder's skills in delivering psychoeducation and psychological support to young people and will be central to the success of this exciting pilot project.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages, and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools, and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

To provide consultation to the multi-disciplinary team based on highly specialist skills in assessment and formulation for clients referred to the transition pathway. This will include the appropriate use of self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the clients' care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal clinical treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients' problems.

To be responsible for developing and delivering specialised programmes of care/care packages to individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across CAMHS and ADAPT.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex clinical and situational factors concerning historical 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 psychologically-based standard care plans.

To provide highly specialist evidence-based clinical advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based and trauma-informed framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on clinical aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To coordinate care across both CAMHS and ADAPT, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under the care planning arrangements of each service including clients, their carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of transition from CAMHS.

To take a leading role in the development of the Transition Worker pilot and to overall service delivery and development as required.

To provide evidence-based interventions with due consideration to appropriate therapeutic techniques according to the age and developmental needs of the client group.

To offer specialist care to clients and families, and consultation to the multidisciplinary team and other agencies. To contribute to the development of models of assessment and treatment across the CAMHS/Adult care pathway.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with relevant professional body
• Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years working in a relevant mental health or social care setting.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of additional training, for example, in IPT-A or CBT

Skills, Ability, Knowledge

• Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries internally and externally
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to work under pressure, acting as a senior role model and making autonomous decisions that are often complex, involving multi-discipline and multi-agency cooperation
• Evidence of ability to competently assess risk and manage complex and dynamic risk of children, young people, and young adults

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.