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Key Responsibilities:

Work closely with Barking & Dagenham Children’s social services, Youth Justice Service, the police, core CAMHS teams, and other partner agencies to foster integrated practice.
• Establish clear communication channels with external agencies for coordinated care and support.
• Undertake CAMHS assessments and care coordination for young people in a community setting, emphasizing the connection between offending, mental health, and substance misuse.
• Collaborate with the YJS Clinical CAMHS Team, senior clinicians, and the multidisciplinary team for mental health risk assessments.
• Collaborate on strategic planning for ongoing CAMHS service development within the Barking & Dagenham Adolescent and Youth Justice Service.
• Contribute insights to enhance the overall effectiveness and responsiveness  of the CAMHS team.
• Oversee and manage the referral process, ensuring timely and appropriate allocations within the Barking & Dagenham Adolescent Youth Justice Service CAMHS team.
• To ensure that the transition process to adult health provision for young people meets individual health care needs and is appropriate, timely & well-co-ordinated.
• To work in partnership with the multi-agency team of professionals including Children's Services, Education & CAMHS to help young people known to the Youth Justice Service reach their potential by helping them to understand their health & take responsibility for their health and wellbeing appropriate to their age & development.
• The post holder will work with young people and families within the home environment, school, or other identified community settings.
• Attend and Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service by attending relevant meetings and assuming responsibilities as negotiated with the line manager; and, providing CAMHS input for adolescents within the Youth Justice Service.
• Collaborate with the team and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
• Uphold high operational standards in clinical systems to assure the quality of care provided by the Barking & Dagenham Youth Justice Service-CAMHS Team.
• To establish robust, effective, and positive partnerships with managers, clinicians and primary care ensuring that support and supervision is provided to staff to prevent professional isolation. 
• To work with Service Manager to improve recruitment and retention and contribute to the recruitment process, acting as appointing officer as required.
• Ensure accurate, up-to-date, and high-quality recording and reporting of client contact, adhering to CAMHS and professional standards of record-keeping.
• Utilize RIO (NELFT) Liquid Logic and Child View (Youth Justice System) for efficient information collection and collation.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• To attend, actively participate and represent the service in professional and management forums and locality-based meetings. 
• To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of national guidelines and legislation from the Department of Health, Youth Justice Service, and other relevant services and to be aware of their impact on the profession in order to develop clinical policy and protocols. 
• To establish and maintain robust links with professional bodies such as the Nursing & Midwifery Council and to ensure that clinicians are aware of professional developments that impact on their practice.
• Uphold a commitment to cultural sensitivity and diversity in all aspects of work.
• Maintain and promote good professional standards and attitudes toward the care and treatment of children, young people, and their families.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence within the Barking & Dagenham Youth Justice Service-CAMHS Team.
• Provide training and advice to Adolescent Youth Justice Service (AYJS) officers on emerging mental health symptoms in the adolescent population.
• Stay informed about the latest research and developments, contributing expertise to enhance understanding of the connection between offending behaviours, mental illness, and substance misuse.
• To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.