Senior Specialist Practitioner / Clinical Nurse Specialist - CAMHS

Job 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

Contractual Requirments

Essential

• A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post

Qualifications

Essential

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Working within Tier 4 CAMHS or CAMHS Crisis / Liaison or Home Treatment or equivalent services

Knowledge

Essential

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).