Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will work as part of the Targeted CAMHS Citywide team in the community as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering, high-quality; brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties including anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties

The post holder will be a member of one of our community-based teams working in partnership with social care, health and education agencies.

Child and family work

• Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• To ensure delivery of appropriate services to children and their families, according to their assessed needs. This will include direct interventions based on a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions. To provide individual and group interventions with young people their families and communities. Making decisions and managing risk appropriately regarding effective care planning and pathways.
• Use skills required in order to enable children and young people, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and co-produce their own agreed plan of care.
• To offer consultation and training and joint working regarding childrens and young peoples emotional and mental health needs. Enhancing skills and knowledge within the partner agencies and across the community. To maintain professional case records, including inputting onto the Departments information systems and accessing information from relevant registers. Producing reports to a high standard.

Partnerships and networking.

• To contribute to the creation and maintenance of good working relationships at all levels with colleagues in partner agencies, local community groups and other City Council Departments, representing the team at inter-agency meetings as appropriate.

• To work with effectively with Community (previously Specialist) CAMHS in line with clinical governance and departmental policies. Act as an effective liaison ensuring clear communication between and within childrens services.
• To work flexibly as a team member in a multi agency team to develop the quality of our services, to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the children and young people in the locality. Working within the CAPA model and being committed to develop and expand skills and therapeutic knowledge to work with a wide range of mental health needs.
• Accountability.
• To manage own workload effectively, maintaining appropriate records and preparing and submitting reports as required.
• To participate in individual supervision with their mental health specialist and their line manager, as well as undertaking appropriate training and developmental opportunities and attending team meetings as required.

• To demonstrate commitment and sensitivity to ensuring equality of opportunity in service delivery.
• To provide the highest standards of safeguarding to children young people/vulnerable adults who access our services, adhering to NCC's safeguarding polices and procedures.
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to children and young people accessing support.
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with parents, children, young people, relevant professionals and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.

Professional

• Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to the post holder's employer. Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or guidelines set by the relevant departments
• Ensure that confidentiality is protected.

• Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the post holder comes into contact with during their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
• Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
• Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives

Person Specification

Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and families.
• Ability to conduct mental health assessments and screenings of children and young people
• Ability to conduct group parenting and group young person programmes
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage
• Ability to maintain records in a timely manner.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
• Strong understanding of how to work with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
• Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health.

Experience

Essential

• - Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• - Experience of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work)
• - Experience of assessing children and young people who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
• - Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
• - Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.
• - Experience of adapting resources to be able to deliver online/ via phone/ Google classroom etc.
• - Experience of working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access

Qualifications

Essential

• Undergraduate degree in Psychology or related subject
• Successful completion of Certificate in Childrens Wellbeing Practice (CWP), with post qualification experience as a CWP

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham City Council

Address

Loxley House

Station Street

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

NG2 3NG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://emss.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a senior practitioner within the team, you will hold a caseload of complex cases involving a range of mental health presentations, often alongside safeguarding concerns, family adversity, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, emotional dysregulation and multiple interacting risks. You will utilise systemic formulation to understand the child or young person's difficulties within the context of their relationships, family dynamics, community and wider professional systems, ensuring interventions are collaborative, culturally responsive and outcome focused.

You will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, deliver systemic interventions to children, young people and families, and contribute to screening and Single Point of Access activity. The role requires confidence in managing complexity, undertaking risk assessments and working with families where there may be significant safeguarding concerns, conflict, uncertainty or risk. You will contribute to multi-agency planning and decision-making, ensuring children and young people receive timely and appropriate support.

A key aspect of the role will be using systemic principles to influence the professional networks around children and families. You will provide consultation, mentoring and reflective support to colleagues, helping to develop systemic thinking across the service and supporting practitioners to understand and respond effectively to complex family and professional dynamics.

You will work closely with health, education, social care and voluntary sector partners, contributing to training, service development and partnership working. As a Level 3 practitioner, you will be expected to take a lead role in supporting colleagues with complex case discussions, contributing specialist systemic expertise whilst promoting high-quality, trauma-informed and relationship-based practice across the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A recognised professional qualification in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology or a related profession, together with a relevant post-qualifying mental health qualification at Diploma level or above.
• A recognised qualification in Systemic Family Practice, with experience of applying systemic formulation and intervention within children's mental health services.

Knowlege

Essential

• Advanced knowledge of systemic theory and practice, including the application of systemic formulation to understand the interaction between mental health difficulties, family relationships, wider systems and contextual factors affecting children and young people.
• Advanced knowledge of child and adolescent mental health, risk assessment, safeguarding, trauma, attachment and neurodevelopmental presentations, including how these influence assessment, intervention and decision-making in complex cases.
• Highly developed systemic assessment and formulation skills, with the ability to analyse complex presentations, hold multiple perspectives and deliver effective interventions with children, young people, families and wider professional networks.
• Ability to work autonomously with complex and high-risk cases, exercising advanced professional judgement in relation to safeguarding, self-harm, suicidality and mental health risk, whilst providing consultation and support to colleagues and partner agencies.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of undertaking complex mental health assessments and delivering systemic interventions to children, young people and families presenting with significant mental health difficulties, family adversity, trauma, neurodiversity, and multiple interacting needs.
• Significant experience of managing complex and high-risk presentations, including safeguarding concerns, self-harm, suicidality and emotional dysregulation, whilst contributing to EDT, multi-agency decision-making, risk management and care planning processes.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham City Council

Address

Loxley House

Station Street

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

NG2 3NG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://emss.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose:

The post-holder will work as part of the Targeted CAMHS Citywide team in the community as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering, high-quality; brief outcome focused therapeutic interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, these may include including anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties

The post holder will be a member of one of our community-based teams working in partnership with social care, health and education agencies.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people and their families with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work)
• Ability to conduct group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
• Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.
• Experience of working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access.

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional qualification, Social work, nursing or teaching, Dipsw, CSS, CQSW, QTS, RMN, NVQ 4 or above in a relevant field.
• Qualification in therapeutic approach/modality (e.g. CBT, DBT, systemic family therapy, solution focused, play therapy etc)

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham City Council

Address

Loxley House

Station Street

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

NG2 3NG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://emss.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)