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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.
As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visit: www.cnwl.nhs.uk
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CAMHS Behaviour Analyst (Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS)
Closed for applications on: 12-Oct-2023 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 12-Oct-2023 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- Beatrice Place, Kensington and Chelsea, London.
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- W8 5LP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 per annum inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Behavioural Therapies
- Interview date
- 31/10/2023
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a certified Behavioural Analyst to work within the Neurodevelopmental Sub-Team at Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS, on a substantive basis. The role involves conducting initial assessments with children and young people up to the age of 18, and specialist ASD assessments. There is a significant element of case management, engagement and liaising with other professionals in the borough, including schools and social care. The Behaviour Analyst designs, implements and reviews behaviour plans, in partnership with the child/young person and their families, school and other stakeholders. They will work in partnership with parents, providing 1:1 sessions to support parental engagement with the strategies designed. The post holder will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist and/or the team manager (who is a BCBA), and be part of a wider Multi-Disciplinary Team. The Trust prioritises staff well-being, and development and opportunities for learning and development are identified with each staff member.
UKSBA registration is not required at this point, but the successful applicant will be expected to sign up for this in 2024.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Wherever you wish to work and whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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To provide a qualified specialist behaviour analyst service to children with neurodevelopmental needs and their families across all sectors of care; providing functional assessment and behavioural interventions at the
same time as offering advice and consultation on these areas to non-behaviour analyst colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall
framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
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Working for our organisation
CNWL is one of the largest trusts offering mental health support in England and one of the organisations of reference in London. Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS is part of that large family and we work closely with professionals and services across the borough and the trust.
You will be working with inspiring clinicians from a wide range of backgrounds and expertise. You will benefit from close contact with Trust Wide therapy leads, professionals with a longstanding trajectory in their fields and from colleagues who are starting the journey as mental health professionals.
We are aspirational about our service and aim to deliver first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. We are keen to recruit people who will go the extra mile for our patients and in return we aim to allow clinicians to prioritise clinical practice above non-clinical demands, to nurture the development clinical, leadership and management skills and to support you to become a valued member of the team.
We hope new employees will find in our service varied opportunities across mental health, community service, the Emotional Treatment Sub-team, the Neurodevelopmental Needs Sub-team and the Enhanced Treatment sub-team. Whatever stage of your career you are at, we hope you will always find a place in CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. To work with colleagues in the CAMHS Team to provide specialist functional assessments of
children with disabilities based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex
data from a variety of sources including measures of behaviour, direct and indirect structured
observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the
client’s care, including frontline workers in health, education, social services and the voluntary
sector.
2. Together with other members of the CAMHS Team to formulate and implement plans for the formal
treatment and/or management of emotional and behavioural difficulties of clients, based upon an
applied behaviour analytic framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon
evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of behavioural interventions for individuals, carers,
families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and
refining behavioural formulations based on feedback from the implementation of interventions.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both the theoretical
model and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental
processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of
clients whose problems are managed by behaviourally based standard care plans.
6. To collaborate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and with other agencies as
appropriate in devising appropriate behavioural treatments for children with disabilities, families and
groups.
7. To provide specialist behavioural advice guidance and consultation to other professionals
contributing directly to clients’ formulation and treatment plans.
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a behaviourally based framework of understanding and care to
the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to
other professions on behavioural aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
10. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review
of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
11. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly sensitive and complex information
concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to
monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and working with other
agencies involved in the client’s care.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Master's Level Training in Applied Behaviour Analysis or Positive Behaviour Support
Desirable criteria
- Board Certified Behavioural Analyst Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children setting. and young people who have learning disabilities and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Experience of working with a wide range of behaviour that challenges that reflects the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of designing and implementing discrete skills teaching programmes.
- Experience of teaching and training others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an NHS setting.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to undertake complex functional the client group and mental health.
- Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
- Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nat Figueroa, BCBA
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07473453435
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Argo House 180 Kilburn Park Road
- London
- NW6 5FA
- Telephone
- 02076852922
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