Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Specialist Practitioner / Clinical Nurse Specialist - CAMHS Crisis / Liaison
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 186-181-24-MH-A
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hopewood
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Specialist Practitioner / Clinical Nurse Specialist - CAMHS
Band 7
Job overview
Due to substantial investment, we are now in an exciting position to substantially recruit to the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team and the Liaison Teams as part of the Urgent Care Provision.
There are multiple roles covering both the CAMHS Crisis Team which covers Nottingham City and County and the CAMHS Liaison Services in the Nottinghamshire Hospitals. Note: the successful applicants may be asked to cover both areas, although will specialise in one.
Main duties of the job
The main aspects of the role will include:
Promoting and delivering evidence based interventions in line with NICE guidelines to meet the needs of young people in crisis.
Work with complex young people and their families and help to contain a crisis situation through effective assessment, formulation and treatment.
Providing support and leadership to junior practitioners alongside Clinical Leads to undertake the therapeutic work that places the young person at the heart of their care.
Linking in with the inclusion and involvement work with young people who have used the service to ensure that it is service user co-produced and meeting the needs of the families in crisis.
Establishing pathways, building links to services and working alongside the Clinical and Operational Leads to promote the service.
Designing and delivering appropriate leaflets or tools that can be used with young people and families to enable them to self manage their mental health.
There will be an expectation of delivering training and consultation to staff, as well as helping to jointly formulate the role of the team alongside wider needs and support networks using a therapeutic base.
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holders will promote and develop clinical excellence within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment and CAMHS Liaison teams to enhance the mental and emotional well-being of children and young people within Nottinghamshire through sound evidence-based approaches.
This role will support the delivery of high quality and safe patient-centred care, by working as a senior member of the team, both supporting with and actively working with the most complex cases on the team caseload.
You will be required to work closely with the Clinical and Operational Leads for the team to ensure quality and excellence in service provision.
A key element of the role will be to support the development and sustaining of a positive working culture within the team and the broader service to support clinicians in feeling valued, listened to, supported and provided with clinical learning opportunities.
There will be an expectation for you to carry out audits as required in order to evaluate quality of care provision and to formulate improvement plans as needed.
A working knowledge of risk assessment, safeguarding procedures, experience of working with the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act is essential. Experience of working with young people experiencing mental health difficulties is essential.
As a Senior Specialist CAMHS Liaison Practitioner, you will work as part of an MDT to assess, formulate and support young people and their families when they attend hospital and require access to mental health support. Practitioners will then offer targeted follow up interventions in a range of therapeutic modalities and training will be provided to help staff continue to build their careers. As a Band 7 you will help other practitioners, both within the CAMHS Team and the acute hospitals to risk assess, formulate and work collaboratively to provide sensitive and supportive time critical input.
As a Senior Practitioner in CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment, you will be working in a team to cover the urgent and emergency mental health needs of young people and their families across Nottingham City and County. The role will entail leading in clinical discussions and formulations within the team and with other professionals both in and outside of CAMHS.
Benefits of the role:
Flexible hours of work, with the opportunity to self roster
Options to job plan between undertaking assessments, follows ups and focussing on therapy specific work to allow balance to the role and enable Practitioners to build and maintain their therapeutic skills.
Close support from the Clinical Leads and Operational Lead, who will take overall responsibility for leadership, allowing this role to focus on the delivery of therapeutic interventions.
Training opportunities are available, including CBT, NVR and DBT.
We recognise that staff wellbeing is paramount when working in such demanding clinical areas. We provide 6 weekly managerial supervision, MDT Forums, Case Formulation, Group Reflective Supervision and mandate monthly clinical supervision.
We are a friendly and ambitious team and welcome new members to our growing team.
Essential for the role:
You must be an RMN, RNLD, Allied Health Professional or Registered Social Worker and hold current registration, have considerable experience of working with young people and/or with acute mental health problems in an acute, crisis or liaison setting.
Candidates should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and good IT skills.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
To discuss this role please feel free to contact the team or arrange an insight visit: 0115 8440560
Sarah Bramley: Clinical Team Lead CAMHS Liaison
Helena Marren: Clinical Team Lead CAMHS Liaison
Mollie King: Clinical Team Lead CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment
Person specification
Physical
Essential criteria
- Ability to move across acute hospitals and trust and community site.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appropriate professional registered qualification e.g. RMN, Social Worker or equivalent qualification and membership of a registered statutory body e.g. NMC.
- Post basic qualification in Child and Adolescent Mental Health or relevant experience to master’s level or equivalent
- Qualification in teaching/supervision and mentoring of students
Training
Essential criteria
- To have undertaken statutory child safeguarding training or be willing to prior to commencement of the post.
- Further training/qualification in psychological therapies e.g. family therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, group work
Desirable criteria
- Sign-off mentor training CPA and/or EHAF training
- Further or non-statutory child safeguarding children training
- Further or non-statutory vulnerable adults safeguarding training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working therapeutically at Band 6 (or equivalent/ above) with children and young people and families within a Community CAMHS setting using a range of clinical interventions appropriate to the needs of users of the service which are evidence based.
- Extensive experience of working with young people and their families who have experienced a range of mental health problems (Including psychotic illness, eating disorders, depressive disorders, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders)
- Care co-ordinating care plans
- Extensive experience of risk assessment and risk management. To demonstrate ability to carry out highly competent clinical assessments including mental state assessments and risk assessments and develop a formulation of their problems.
- An ability to apply a crisis management approach to complex clinical situations.
- Extensive experience of multi agency working including education, health and social care.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision in relation to complex cases to junior staff and peers.
- Delivering consultation within CAMHS and other agencies.
- Experience of audit, research and analytical skills.
- Demonstrates experience of providing care that is sensitive to the needs of minority groups
- An ability to manage and contain the anxiety of other professionals
- Extensive experience of involvement: communicating with service users/carers to reflect on and develop services.
- Demonstration of leadership skills within CAMHS.
Desirable criteria
- Working within Tier 4 CAMHS or CAMHS Crisis / Liaison or Home Treatment or equivalent services
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding and working knowledge of the CAMHS system.
- Understanding of attachment and early developmental issues Knowledge and experience of the provision of mental health assessment for young people
- Working knowledge and experience of the provision of therapeutic approaches and interventions with children, young people and their families
- Knowledge of other agencies systems e.g., AMH, Social Care
- Working knowledge and experience of relevant legislation regarding young people.
- Extensive knowledge of complex mental health difficulties that affect children, young people and the impact on their families/carers
- Working knowledge and experience of safeguarding policies and procedures
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the key strategies More recently the crisis care concordat and ‘our future in mind’ and policies affecting child and adolescent mental health services including Standard 9 of the National Service Framework, Every Child Matters, National CAMHS Review
- More recently the crisis care concordat and ‘our future in mind’
- Knowledge of how these are located into a wider strategic picture of child health and well-being.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work autonomously whilst being able to work as an integral part of the MDT.
- Ability to utilise electronic data recording systems.
- To be able to prioritise work load.
- To maintain accurate case records in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust policies and procedures.
- Advanced skills in communicating highly complex and sensitive information to young people and their families/carers.
- The ability to communicate highly complex clinical issues to large groups of professionals.
- Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with young people and their families, clinical peers and other professionals.
- Ability to recognise and act upon issues relating to equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
Contractual
Essential criteria
- Evidence of motivation and achievement of professional goals – PAD.
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
- Be subject to/undertake CRB checks as required by Trust policy/procedure
Desirable criteria
- Access to own transport
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kacey Sharkey
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07436692475
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Duncan Macmillan House
Porchester Road
Mapperley
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG3 6AA
- Telephone
- 0115 9691300
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