CAMHS Parenting Lead

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

This role is based in Greenwich CAMHS as the parenting lead across the service. The postholder will also contribute to the clinical delivery of the Early Intervention Team (EIT) which provides training, consultation, supervision, and brief focused clinical interventions to schools across Greenwich borough. In addition to these services the post holder will have a specific role within the wider CAMHS service to lead on the continued development of a parenting strategy to facilitate evidence-based parenting interventions across pathways in partnership with the clinical lead. This relates to the dissemination of evidence-based practices as part of Children and Young People Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) and coordination / provision of high-quality supervision and parenting skill development within the workforce. Part of the role will be to supervise both CAMHS professionals delivering parenting interventions and to co-ordinate, organise and supervise groups for parents of children and young people with challenging behaviour (e.g., Incredible Years, Non-violent Resistance) in partnership with managers and the relevant head of discipline.
To provide highly specialist assessments of clients referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal therapeutic treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group
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 and 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 and 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’re
We Listen
We Care
The role also entails providing highly specialist assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS and specialist advice and consultation to external agencies. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required. They will contribute to the development, implementation and audit services for families with children presenting highly challenging behaviours

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