Southwark CAMHS Clinical Specialist

You will carry out mental health & risk assessments on children & young people in your care routinely and work under the supervision of the team manager and senior clinicians to manage these situations effectively. You will work with other CAMHS clinicians in the service from all disciplines. You will be a member of a number of internal and external professional networks to ensure that care plans for individual children are co-ordinated efficiently across agencies. This post is a clinical post and the expectation of time management is the majority of time is spent in actual clinical practice. Assume responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMHS assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention. Design, write and share a copy of the care plan with children, young people and their carers Assess safeguarding issues and refer concerns to Child Protection teams Deliver interventions for children and young people who have self-harmed/are in crisis or presenting with other mental health concerns; the treatment interventions provided would be based on NICE guidelines and evidence based practice Use individual, group work, family work, advice and supervision according to the needs of children and young people and have a flexible and innovative approach to packages of care Participate and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families and other agencies as required Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.