Job summary
Alliance CAMHS is looking for a Band 8 A Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist to provide clinical leadership and advanced clinical practice in the specialist area of CYP mental health crisis and liaison. You will need demonstrable leadership skills and excellent clinical skills in CAMHS, ideally with acute urgent care pathway experience and community crisis care. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team holding a clinical caseload and undertaking appropriate mental health assessments of children and adolescents presenting to local hospitals and CAMHS in crisis. You will need experience of change management and implementing service development initiatives and the role will include leading on research and quality improvement initiatives within the service. An aspect of the role includes supervision, teaching and development as part of the training and progression pathway within CAMHS. You will also have advanced assessment skills and ideally be a non-medical prescriber.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will participate and lead on the delivery of clinical care for patients across the crisis pathway, which includes helpline telephone support, step down from inpatient units/paediatric wards and intensive home treatment. You will carry out highly specialist assessments of children and young people with severe and complex mental health presentations and will document the outcome of these assessments, providing formulation, diagnosis, and recommendations for interventions. In addition, you will offer a range of individual, family and group therapeutic interventions, including risk management, appropriate for children and young people attending the service. You will ideally have experience in inpatient or crisis care and a demonstrable commitment to creative engagement with a culturally diverse population of young people. To show initiative, demonstrate excellent leadership, be a team player and to communicate ideas clearly to both professionals and young people alike.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have demonstrable leadership skills and excellent clinical skills in CAMHS, ideally with acute urgent care pathway experience and community crisis care.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team holding a clinical caseload and undertaking appropriate mental health assessments of children and adolescents presenting to local hospitals and CAMHS in crisis.
The post holder will provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical and crisis interventions, informed by assessed individual need.
The post holder will be working with CYP with behavioural, emotional and mental health needs often in complex family situations displaying a range of risk type behaviours.
The post holder will provide clinical supervision to nursing, social care and allied health staff. They will be part of the leadership and teaching team for the internal training and progression pathway within WLT CAMHS.
The post holder will have experience of change management and implementing service development initiatives and the role will include leading on research and quality improvement initiatives within the service.
The post holder will also assist the CAMHS and/or paediatrics team with treatment planning and provide consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the young person.
The post holder will have advanced assessment skills and ideally be a non-medical prescriber who has completed the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice training in mental health.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more detailed information on the job role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have demonstrable leadership skills and excellent clinical skills in CAMHS, ideally with acute urgent care pathway experience and community crisis care.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team holding a clinical caseload and undertaking appropriate mental health assessments of children and adolescents presenting to local hospitals and CAMHS in crisis.
The post holder will provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical and crisis interventions, informed by assessed individual need.
The post holder will be working with CYP with behavioural, emotional and mental health needs often in complex family situations displaying a range of risk type behaviours.
The post holder will provide clinical supervision to nursing, social care and allied health staff. They will be part of the leadership and teaching team for the internal training and progression pathway within WLT CAMHS.
The post holder will have experience of change management and implementing service development initiatives and the role will include leading on research and quality improvement initiatives within the service.
The post holder will also assist the CAMHS and/or paediatrics team with treatment planning and provide consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the young person.
The post holder will have advanced assessment skills and ideally be a non-medical prescriber who has completed the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice training in mental health.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more detailed information on the job role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree/diploma in Nursing
- Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) RMN.
- Evidence of accredited courses in child and adolescent mental health practice
- MSC level training in a relevant specialist field or appropriate experience
- Mentorship/ teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable
- Relevant management training/ qualification
- Research training
- CYP IAPT training
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Advanced clinical practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS.
- Experience of working in a number of ways i.e. crisis team, assertive outreach, clinic based settings, home, school or other appropriate environments
- Experience of assessing risk and formulating safe and effective risk management plans
- Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisals
- Experience of developing operational protocols
- Experience of teaching other professionals
- Experience of delivering mental health awareness and bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals
- Experience of delivering training to colleagues
- Experience of management of child protection emergencies
Desirable
- Experience of audit and/or research
- Experience of contributing to and implementing new service developments and quality improvement
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree/diploma in Nursing
- Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) RMN.
- Evidence of accredited courses in child and adolescent mental health practice
- MSC level training in a relevant specialist field or appropriate experience
- Mentorship/ teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable
- Relevant management training/ qualification
- Research training
- CYP IAPT training
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Advanced clinical practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary CAMHS.
- Experience of working in a number of ways i.e. crisis team, assertive outreach, clinic based settings, home, school or other appropriate environments
- Experience of assessing risk and formulating safe and effective risk management plans
- Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisals
- Experience of developing operational protocols
- Experience of teaching other professionals
- Experience of delivering mental health awareness and bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals
- Experience of delivering training to colleagues
- Experience of management of child protection emergencies
Desirable
- Experience of audit and/or research
- Experience of contributing to and implementing new service developments and quality improvement
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
