CAMHS Specialist Community Advisor

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 22 November 2024

Job summary

Are you a committed and enthusiastic clinician, and would you like to work in a well led and respected multi-disciplinary CAMH service? We have a vacancy in our CAMHS Specialist Community Advisor Team and you could be just who we are looking for!

The role of the CAMHS Specialist Community Advisor is to provide a link between universal first contact services for children and families, such as Schools, Children's Services, Primary care, voluntary sector and Specialist CAMHS.

You will be a Registered Nurse, Social Worker or equivalent with experience of working in a role within or closely related to CAMHS. You will be expected to work independently to develop working relationships with a range of professionals and partner agencies, within an assigned geographical area and act as a representative of the wider CAMHS service.

As a member of the CAMHS service, you will be required to work and be based between CAMHS and various community locations ; a car driver with a full current licence & own transport is therefore essential.

Main duties of the job

The main aim of the service is to provide consultations to professionals about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people; to help identify children and who need help at the earliest possible point; provide specialist advice; and if necessary help facilitate access to the most appropriate source of support.

Delivering training workshops to professionals and parents is part of the role and so experience in this area would be desirable.

About us

Supporting our young people during a difficult time in their lives, can be hugely rewarding: it also requires a special sort of person - caring, respectful, empathetic, resilient, an excellent communicator. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Whilst you care for our young people and families, in turn we recognise the importance of caring for you - clinical supervision, career & personal development and health & wellbeing support are all core to our service. If you're keen to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, come and talk to us about how we could support that.

Our CAMHS team covers the North Derbyshire area from our 2 bases in Buxton and Chesterfield and provide a service predominantly Monday - Friday between 9am - 5pm. There will be some flexibility to allow for the delivery of some early evening training workshops on occasions. Our service has embraced flexible and remote working.

Date posted

31 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

166-FC-6687391

Job locations

Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Calow

Chesterfield

S44 5BL

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional, registered qualification in MH, SW, Therapy

Experience

Essential

Work with children & families including work with child mental health needs

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in a multi agency setting offering consultation & liaison.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional, registered qualification in MH, SW, Therapy

Experience

Essential

Work with children & families including work with child mental health needs

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in a multi agency setting offering consultation & liaison.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).