Senior Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

My name is Chelsea Gamble, I am the Clinical Team Leader for the exciting new CATAT service! (CATAT - CAMHS Alternative to Admissions Team which covers both Norfolk and Suffolk).

For those of you who have yet to hear about us, we are a recently commissioned team aimed supporting those Children and Young People (CYP) under the age of 18 who find themselves in crisis and at risk of repeat admission to acute hospitals / A&E services or who may otherwise require admission as an inpatient.

CATAT is currently a one-year period until the end of March 2023, however this situation is under constant review, with the data collected, data is being collected in order to provide supporting evidence-for best practice. As a team, based on the current need within Norfolk and Suffolk's local communities and the success of the pilot this far, we believe that there is a high likelihood of this pilot period being extended. With this in mind, and recognising that suitable candidates will need both job and financial security, this post is being offered as a permanent/substantive post

As CATAT becomes more established, our hope is that the new CATAT team will serve as a gateway in and out of Tier 4 provision, with the other CFYP teams being able to access T4 support from our service without the need for actual admission. This is obviously a significant change in both the clinical offer and culture, which we appreciate will take time for us all to achieve.

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Practitioner role offers a wonderful opportunity to be part of the multidisciplinary leadership team, influential in shaping, developing, and delivering care to meet the needs of the local population, in partnership with all other stakeholders. We are looking for individuals who have enhanced clinical skills and experience with an ability to inspire, motivate and deliver clear improvements for patients and staff.

Whilst experience in working with children and young people would make you perfectly suited to this role, we are really open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds who have experience in other areas of mental health. But we would like individuals to be well motivated, have good interpersonal skills, personal resilience, and an enthusiasm for working with children and their families whilst they are going through a difficult and stressful period in their lives, in terms of their mental health and well-being.

It will be quite a challenging environment at times, so we need clinicians with a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and a hands-on approach. It is vital that the clinician is reflective around issues of power and difference, see the importance of working across systems, and can do that effectively.

We can accommodate some flexible working in line with the service need. There will be a requirement to be able to travel independently across both the county's.

About us

CATAT INFO:

About our current team.

• This includes myself as CTL (who is mental health trained).
• 2x B7 senior Nurse Practitioners (of which one is a non-medical prescriber and the other has completed their 2nd year of systemic therapy),
• B6 PAEDS nurse,
• 2x Assistant practitioners (both have good clinical experiences)
• 1x Admin.
• We have been live since 18th July 2022 and our work is already having an extremely positive response from the young people and wider teams we are working with.

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Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits included with this role are: -

• NHS pension
• Agile working opportunities
• Comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• Generous Relocation/Removal Package
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• Staff physio service

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Herbert Matthes Building Northgate Hospital

Northgate Street

Great Yarmouth

NR30 1BU

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Herbert Matthes Building Northgate Hospital

Northgate Street

Great Yarmouth

NR30 1BU

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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