CAMHS Senior Clinician - Disordered Eating

• Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism. • Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the commissioned CAMHS Disordered Eating service across Herefordshire & Worcestershire, to meet the mental health needs of the children and, young people • Provide professional leadership, day-to-day supervision and support for clinical staff, to take on a consultative role, based on developing skills, experience and expertise within the wider service. • Use advanced expertise and knowledge to take on management of the most complex cases or oversee and support colleagues in doing so. • Be responsible for a defined caseload and ensure full compliance with Ttrust policies and protocols at all times. • Be required to work flexibly across the Trust to meet the needs of the service • Effectively manage a defined caseload as key worker, fully implementing all agreed care plans and ensuring that they are regularly reviewed. • Undertake Choice assessments and deliver planned treatment through partnership work, using a range of evidence-based approaches to care. • Undertake clinician led clinics. • Utilise the appropriate frameworks to identify, refer, monitor and support children in need, working in partnership with external agencies. • Prepare clinical reports e.g. Safeguarding and to support junior staff in doing so. • Participate in and deliver appropriate clinical and safeguarding supervision. • Provide highly specialised advice/clinical guidance concerning best practice to colleagues or external agencies where necessary. • Develop and maintain team communication systems which ensure effective 2-way dissemination of information in relation to all team and provider services activity, in liaison with other teams and agencies as required. • Liaise and work in partnership with colleagues from statutory and voluntary agencies including schools, early help providers, stronger families, childrens social care, other Trust staff/services and acute agencies, children and families, in pursuit of health gain for the population. • Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using developed interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere. • Positively promote the CAMHS service. • Support the collection, monitoring and evaluation of data related to CAMHS in line with Trust policy and local and national requirements. • Ensure that each service user receives an individual assessment and is given a regularly updated care plan which, wherever practicable, is formulated in conjunction with the Service User and approved by the post holder as senior clinician. • Support and lead other mental health practitioners to ensure quality outcomes throughout the service. • Organise, plan and provide practice-based learning for all team members and students. • Contribute to workforce planning, the development of training needs analysis and plans. • Act as the senior clinician for their discipline representing the discipline at strategic meetings, disseminating knowledge and leading development as appropriate. For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached. Job description Job responsibilities • Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism. • Be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the commissioned CAMHS Disordered Eating service across Herefordshire & Worcestershire, to meet the mental health needs of the children and, young people • Provide professional leadership, day-to-day supervision and support for clinical staff, to take on a consultative role, based on developing skills, experience and expertise within the wider service. • Use advanced expertise and knowledge to take on management of the most complex cases or oversee and support colleagues in doing so. • Be responsible for a defined caseload and ensure full compliance with Ttrust policies and protocols at all times. • Be required to work flexibly across the Trust to meet the needs of the service • Effectively manage a defined caseload as key worker, fully implementing all agreed care plans and ensuring that they are regularly reviewed. • Undertake Choice assessments and deliver planned treatment through partnership work, using a range of evidence-based approaches to care. • Undertake clinician led clinics. • Utilise the appropriate frameworks to identify, refer, monitor and support children in need, working in partnership with external agencies. • Prepare clinical reports e.g. Safeguarding and to support junior staff in doing so. • Participate in and deliver appropriate clinical and safeguarding supervision. • Provide highly specialised advice/clinical guidance concerning best practice to colleagues or external agencies where necessary. • Develop and maintain team communication systems which ensure effective 2-way dissemination of information in relation to all team and provider services activity, in liaison with other teams and agencies as required. • Liaise and work in partnership with colleagues from statutory and voluntary agencies including schools, early help providers, stronger families, childrens social care, other Trust staff/services and acute agencies, children and families, in pursuit of health gain for the population. • Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using developed interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere. • Positively promote the CAMHS service. • Support the collection, monitoring and evaluation of data related to CAMHS in line with Trust policy and local and national requirements. • Ensure that each service user receives an individual assessment and is given a regularly updated care plan which, wherever practicable, is formulated in conjunction with the Service User and approved by the post holder as senior clinician. • Support and lead other mental health practitioners to ensure quality outcomes throughout the service. • Organise, plan and provide practice-based learning for all team members and students. • Contribute to workforce planning, the development of training needs analysis and plans. • Act as the senior clinician for their discipline representing the discipline at strategic meetings, disseminating knowledge and leading development as appropriate. For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.