CAMHS Transitions Coordinator

at  South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Clinical To provide leadership to safeguarding issues to CAMHS teams for cases in process of transitions To contribute to specialist assessments of young children and their parents/career referred to the services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, an integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology. Support evaluation and decision-making process for transition and treatment interventions considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family Exercise autonomous professional responsibility contributing towards assessments, discharge and transition of young people to adult mental health services whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carer receive holistic and coordinated services in response to their mental health needs. To contribute to risk assessment(s) and risk management(s) for young children and parents/carer.
Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carer. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy an Information Governance Department. To assist CAMHS teams in the coordination of CPA meetings and to participate in patients CPAs and other agency reviews To take a lead role in child protection, consulting with and advising colleagues in accordance with policy and legislative frameworks To lead on MCA 2005 MHA 1983, Care Act 2014 and safeguarding issues in relation to transition To frequently manage complex and emotionally charged meetings with children and families where clients may be hostile, antagonistic or have high expressed emotion. To be responsible for managing and prioritizing own workload of children and adolescents involving self-harm To be responsible for implementing a range of group work interventions focusing on life skills training, motivational and creative activities, systemic, psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups.
To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses and adjusting and changing treatment options. To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information, for example regarding the experience and effects of anorexia and bulimia on a young persons physical and developmental status. To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age-appropriate language, being mindful that the information may be unwelcome. To be mindful of the needs of children, young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual religious and social backgrounds, and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs.
Service Development: To be responsible for identifying desirable service developments in accordance with needs of Young People and their carers transitioning to adult services. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of transition services operational policies and services, as directed, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To contribute to a culture that is therapeutic, productive, accessible, inclusive and flexible to meet the needs of the local population. Teaching, Training and Supervision: To receive relevant clinical and managerial supervision from relevant senior nurse and service manager, as relevant.
To gain additional experiences and skills relevant to the profession and/or the service (as agreed with the service manager) in accordance with the CAMHS directorates expectations. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training, and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate. To offer training relevant to the above to service users carer and colleagues. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.
Research and Service Evaluation: To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake appropriate research and provide advice to other staff undertaking research

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