CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapist

1a This post holder will predominately work within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment pathway. The MHP will be able improve children and young peoples mental health through the delivery of an integrated and coordinated system of community based mental health care to children, young people, and their families, providing safe, culturally competent, effective, cost efficient, timely and accessible services that are in accordance with national and local priorities and are responsive to the needs and views of local children, young people, and their families. 2a To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and Health and Care Professionals Council (HPCP) guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decision, caseload, and supervision responsibilities. The post holder will receive regular individual and team supervision and will be expected to seek advice whenever necessary. 3a To administer and interpret
psychological and risk assessments, and to have experience in the use of psychometric measures in the assessment of young people with symptoms of emerging BPD/EUPD, in particular suicidal behaviours and self-harm. 4a Provide specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and have knowledge of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for the young people on your caseload in line with NICE guidance and recognised good practice. 5a Provide good quality group work and take a role in facilitating groups to teach the young people new skills and to support parents/carers. The post holder may need to be flexible in the timing of the groups (e.g., after school). 6a Participate and lead in joint complex assessments and care plans with DBT staff, other disciplines, and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families, and other agencies as required. 7a Participate in the evaluation of the effectiveness of the pathway to ensure the needs of the children and young people it serves are being met. 8a
Liaise with other services within LSW and other external agencies. 9a To provide specialist assessment and consultation across community CAMHS and Multi Agency / professional forums. 10a To ensure that you are up to date with Safeguarding and Child Protection Policys within LSW. Regularly assess safeguarding issues and risk for each case and refer concerns to Child Protection teams (etc) where appropriate. 11a Contribute to the single point of access process to ensure referrals into the service are addressed in a timely manner, this may include electronic triage. 12a To provide autonomous specialist clinical practice within the CAMHS a. Clinical assessment and formulation b. Making an autonomous judgment about whether the Child or young person requires further DBT CAMHS assessment or intervention c. Assess and manage risk. d. Care planning e. Intervention using a range of therapeutic modalities f. Hold a case load as identified in the post holders job plan g.
Determining the point of discharge and agreeing this with the child, young person, and family. h. Communicating appropriately the clinical information to the General Practitioner, relevant professionals, and parent/carers where appropriate. i. All documentation must be compliant with LSW policys including CPA 13a To participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings. 14a Be available for and make use of clinical supervision, child protection supervision and operational line management supervision. 15a Ensure the agreed outcome measures are adhered to within the post holders area of work. 16a Ensure participation with children and young people to improve service provision is included within CAMHS and undertaken at every opportunity. 17a The MHP will develop skills and knowledge enabling them to make an autonomous decision about the time of discharge, and agree with the child, young person, and family/carers as well as multi-agency key partners. Communicate a summary of the
work undertaken and how to sustain improvements made and include correspondence to General Practitioner. 18a The MHP is required to maintain high effective standards in the recording of clinical observations and actions, risk and risk management including child protection in health records. 19a The MHP will strongly adhere to culturally competent and anti-discriminatory practice, promote equity of opportunity, and use their professional position to empower others and challenge power imbalances where they are found to exist. 20a Contribute to the development of team protocols and clinical practice, proposing changes for discussion. Maintain good activity records and input them onto the electronic recording system in a timely manner. 21a To participate in audit and quality and patient safety activity in line with service objectives. 22a To be aware of and familiar with LWSW policy and procedure and operate within that e.g., lone working policy. 23a To maintain high
standards of infection prevention and control in day-to-day delivery of practice. 24a To measure and make available clinical outcome measures within an agreed system. This is most likely to be the CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium.