CAMHS Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Support Team is in three stage development, we are currently in phase one where we are providing a service Monday to Friday 9-5. Once recruitment allows, we will move to provide evening and weekend work and a brief intervention offer. Finally in stage three we will provide a crisis service covering 8am-10pm 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Currently the team work Monday to Friday 9-5.

The Specialist Mental Health Practitioner will have responsibility for providing clinical leadership to colleagues in the assessment, treatment and management of children and young people with acute mental health difficulties. Providing specialist assessment and clinically proven, research based interventions to children and young people presenting with high risk or high impact mental health difficulties. The post holder will offer advice and consultation regarding the management of the client group to colleagues within the CYP service and in other agencies where appropriate and when required. It is expected that the post holder will spend 2/3 of their time or more time in the delivery of direct/indirect clinical care.

Clinical

To provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the CYP Crisis and Intensive support team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, outcome measures, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

The post holder will take a lead role in the development of clinical services for young people accessing the CYP Crisis and Intensive Support team , both referred to the team and those identified as requiring additional consultation.

The post holder would be an essential member of the multi disciplinary team and will be able to facilitate the co-ordination of care on a multi-disciplinary basis to the service user.

The post holder will provide expert assessment, formulation and intervention and support to all children, young people and families referred to the service providing evidence based specialist interventions.

The post holder will formulate plans of care and negotiate the implementation of such plans and the sharing of complex, sensitive, confidential and at times contentious information e.g. child protection issues.

To be responsible for implementing a range of clinical interventions for children and young people, their carers, and families, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.

To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to improving the understanding of child and adolescent mental health to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.

To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans with clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner

Teaching, training, and supervision

To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinician and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff as appropriate.

To provide professional and clinical supervision to more junior colleagues and trainees.

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

To contribute to managing the workloads of any supervisees within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.

To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of staff.

To participate in service and discipline meetings and apply agreed standards to all work undertaken, in line with Trust Clinical Governance policies.

To develop and maintain close links with other CAMHS teams and partnership agencies.

IT Responsibilities

To input data electronically onto RIO or other systems in line with Trust policy.

To ensure that all relevant patient information is entered onto RIO electronic recorded system.

To use computers to write reports, correspondence and record data.

Research and service evaluation

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To undertake appropriate research.

To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

General

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

To travel around the locality to different settings where services are provided, including home, school and residential settings.

To advise and contribute to developments on accessible sources of information for service users and elicit their views on services.

This role is 37.5 hour per week and you will be required to cover a rota 8am 10pm on a shift basis including weekend work when the team are working these hours. There is scope for some flexible working hours.

We are looking for full time and part time staff and can offer flexibility in working days/ hours to meet the needs of the service as well as offering greater work life balance for staff.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact

Dr Ann Cox (Nurse Consultant) ann.cox@mpft.nhs.uk , 07812 471025 or

Sharron Chamberlain (Team Leader & Mental Health Practitioner) sharron.chamberlain@mpft.nhs.uk , Tel: 07800 715358

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• First level professional nursing/AHP/Social Work/Therapy qualification in mental health, Social Work Nursing or AHP or equivalent with demonstrable knowledge and continuous post qualified experience/professional development
• Conforms to Professional governing body requirements
• Professional registration with HCPC, NMC or equivalent

Desirable

• Additional Psychological intervention/Professional Qualification including CYP IAPT training, CBT, CBTp, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, Solution focussed interventions, Possitve Behavious Rapport Planning
• Motivational Interview techniques
• Recognised appropriate qualification in mentoring/assessing/ supporting students in placement
• Professional specific additional qualification eg non medical prescriber, sensory integration therapy trained, Approved mental Health Practitioner (AMHP)

Qualifications

Essential

• First level professional nursing/AHP/Social Work/Therapy qualification in mental health, Social Work Nursing or AHP or equivalent with demonstrable knowledge and continuous post qualified experience/professional development

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with HCPC, NMC or equivalent

Qualifications

Desirable

• Additional Psychological intervention/Professional Qualification including CYP IAPT training, CBT, CBTp, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, Solution focussed interventions, Positive Behaviour Rapport Planning

Qualifications

Desirable

• Professional specific additional qualification eg non medical prescriber, sensory integration therapy trained, Approved mental Health Practitioner (AMHP)

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Block 6, St Michaels Court, Lichfield

Trent Valley Road

Lichfield

WS13 6EF

Employer's website

https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)