Mental Health Practitioner for Care Experienced Young

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

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Job overview

The Camden CAMHS Children Looked After and Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers Team is a multi-disciplinary specialist team which is co-located with social workers from the Local Authority Children Looked After and Permanency Teams. The team provides mental health support to young people, their carers and works closely with their professional networks. The service supports the needs of Children Looked After by Camden both within and outside of the borough.

The CAMHS team extends its offer to Care Experienced Young People up to the age of 24 years in recognition that this is a group which often falls between the gaps in services and continue to have complex presentations which need support. This is one of two posts dedicated to support this population, the other is a band 7 whose role will be to support the band 6 post holder.

The Children Looked after and Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers Team is a hard working, lively and supportive team dedicated to supporting their patients. It is a creative team which welcomes new ideas and thinking.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that assesses mental health needs; advises on appropriate mental health provisions, risk management; care planning and provides interventions and therapeutic support to children, young people and their carers. The team has a community approach and will provide a range of interventions in an attempt to engage and support this group of young people to
develop relationships with professionals.

They will be expected to work with the young people’s networks, offering advice, consultation and if needed provide training with the band 7 clinician. The post holder will be accountable for a caseload of clients, supported by the CAMHS multi-disciplinary team and will receive regular supervision from a higher banded clinician within the team. They will be expected to work jointly with other members of the team offering specialist CAMHS advice, consultation and training as required.

Working for our organisation

The Community & Integrated Service
Our community and Integrated service line is home to all our services that work in the community or are integrated into community teams such as with the local authority or primary care. The service line is home to our core Community Camden CAMHS as well as adult primary care service in Hackney. The service line is fully multidisciplinary with
teams that are staffed with Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work, Psychotherapy, Nursing and Family Therapy.