Senior Mental Health Clinician - CAMHS STaRT Team

Job summary

Are you an experienced clinician looking for a new challenge in our values lead organisation?

We are looking for a Senior Mental Health Clinician to take an active role in the wider DDP network in the city, providing support to the Portsmouth DDP network, whilst further embedding DDP informed practice across the team.

We are a Multi-Disciplinary Service providing a range of effective, evidence-based assessments, treatments and support for children and young people (0-25) from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds who experience early developmental trauma, behavioural, emotional and/or mental health difficulties. Types of disorders include Anxiety, Depression, Self-Harm, difficulties forming and maintaining relationships within the context of their trauma, challenging behaviours.

The post holder will be expected to take a lead with management of complex trauma cases and support other CAMHS-STaRT workers with their trauma cases to prevent deterioration in mental health and placement breakdowns. The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues from other services and agencies to promote joint working. To assist in training across sectors and agencies as appropriate.

You'll be responsible for influencing clinical decisions and monitoring the quality of patient care provided through utilising and maintaining expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice underpinned by theory and experience. (DDP training and progression through the Practicum).

Main duties of the job

• Assess, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care to achieve best health outcome for patient/client/family/health needs as well as actively promote health & wellbeing.
• Evaluate clinical outcome & report variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines.
• Contribute to effective discharge planning &/or referral process to health care provider & support agencies.
• Apply diagnostic reasoning & professional judgement to practice issues/decisions.
• Manage daily care of patient/client & when required manage care in the absence of senior colleagues.
• Foster inquiry & critical thinking amongst colleagues to advance practice & patient/client care to ensure the provision of positive patient/client outcomes & person-centred care.
• Use the core principles of DDP throughout all elements of practice, alongside other recommended therapies.
• Accurately document assessments of patients/client's health status, diagnosis & response to interventions & treatments using Trust Clinical Records System
• Effectively manage clinical care & area through the implementation of clearly defined policies & procedures.
• Educate & provide information to patients/clients/family/other professionals to improve knowledge of trauma and mental illness, self-management prevention of complications & promotion of recovery.
• Role model safe practice & report poor practice when observed.
• Practice in accordance with legal, ethical, culturally safe, & professional standards including the Code of practice.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.