Job summary
Rochdale CAMHS Team are developing a specific duty and assessment team and are therefore excited to be looking to recruit an experienced qualified mental health nurse or social worker to lead this new part of the service.
This is a full-time substantive role working with children and families presenting with a range of mental health challenges, and the post offers a breadth of opportunities for you to develop and hone core clinical skills in assessment, formulation, therapy, consultation and supervision of others. You will help ensure that CAMHS Getting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment from CAMHS access it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will act as the duty manager for the CAMHS service leading a team of professionals who are offering the initial assessment to children and young people of the borough. The team will be responsible for responding to risk presentations across a number of sites within the GM footprint, this includes hospital settings, urgent care centres and home addresses.
You will need excellent organisational skills to be able to respond to risk and support staff to re-prioritise depending on what is presenting on the day. You will need the ability to respond to young people and families expressing high levels of emotion and be confident to challenge decisions of other professionals in an appropriate manner drawing on formulation and clinical experience to provide a rationale for decision making.
You will be responsible for supporting practitioner decision making in relation to risk management and care planning and provide a high level of supervision to staff members.
About us
Children's mental health and emotional well-being is a key priority locally and Rochdale benefits from strong multi-agency networks and creative approaches to service delivery. Rochdale CAMHS is one of the highest performing in the country currently, and the borough is also home to the nationally recognised #Thrive service providing a broad spectrum of emotional well-being support to children and families. Other CAMHS-linked services in place include our Early Attachment service, Our Place (multi-agency team for children on the edge of care) and the Mental Health Support Team, with other projects also in development.
We offer a robust supervision structure and development opportunities in terms of psychological therapies training within the trust and opportunities to access specialist training in line with your own and the team's needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure high quality CAMHS clinical assessment of young people and their families referred via the Single Point of Entry
- To manage and clinically supervise CAMHS practitioners in managing their own caseloads.
- To be responsible for and manage a (reduced) defined caseload (as agreed with Operational Manager) and undertake key-worker responsibilities within the caseload, making autonomous decisions concerning service delivery, risk management, referrals to other agencies and discharge.
- To make independent clinical decisions about the appropriate therapeutic interventions for each young person, in accordance with individual assessed need, and to provide or provide access to this intervention, including those young people with learning difficulties.
- To identify and develop strategies to manage risk to the young person and others in line with Pennine Care procedures and protocols.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure high quality CAMHS clinical assessment of young people and their families referred via the Single Point of Entry
- To manage and clinically supervise CAMHS practitioners in managing their own caseloads.
- To be responsible for and manage a (reduced) defined caseload (as agreed with Operational Manager) and undertake key-worker responsibilities within the caseload, making autonomous decisions concerning service delivery, risk management, referrals to other agencies and discharge.
- To make independent clinical decisions about the appropriate therapeutic interventions for each young person, in accordance with individual assessed need, and to provide or provide access to this intervention, including those young people with learning difficulties.
- To identify and develop strategies to manage risk to the young person and others in line with Pennine Care procedures and protocols.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- UKCC nursing or Diploma in social work
- NMC or Social Work England registration
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly Developed Knowledge of mental health issues in young people
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and National Policies in relation to children and young people.
- Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability
- Evidence of Post qualifying training courses/ certificates
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working within a health delivered child & adolescent mental health outpatient/ community service or of Adult mental health services
- Experience of the CPA model
- Experience of clinically supervising the work of others.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions.
- Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs.
- Ability to develop a range of therapeutic activities across a range of settings.
- Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs.
- Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Ability to act in consultation/ Supervision/ training capacity with professionals.
- Ability to develop liaison/links and familiarity with other professional networks
- Ability to prioritise key tasks, and targets for intervention.
- Ability to evaluate service initiatives for effectiveness/ outcome.
- Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries
- Ability to keep accurate activity data for audit/evaluation.
- Ability to develop and audit the effectiveness of protocols.
- Ability to manage other staff to meet targets and objectives of the service
- Ability to implement HR procedures as appropriate
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to use systems approach
- Ability to provide leadership for the service
- Ability to manage and to work autonomously with case load
- Ability to work flexibly and innovatively.
- Good communication skills
- Ability to operate with an unpredictable work pattern.
- Ability to work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and were individuals may be antagonistic/ aggressive.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- UKCC nursing or Diploma in social work
- NMC or Social Work England registration
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly Developed Knowledge of mental health issues in young people
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and National Policies in relation to children and young people.
- Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability
- Evidence of Post qualifying training courses/ certificates
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working within a health delivered child & adolescent mental health outpatient/ community service or of Adult mental health services
- Experience of the CPA model
- Experience of clinically supervising the work of others.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions.
- Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs.
- Ability to develop a range of therapeutic activities across a range of settings.
- Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs.
- Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Ability to act in consultation/ Supervision/ training capacity with professionals.
- Ability to develop liaison/links and familiarity with other professional networks
- Ability to prioritise key tasks, and targets for intervention.
- Ability to evaluate service initiatives for effectiveness/ outcome.
- Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries
- Ability to keep accurate activity data for audit/evaluation.
- Ability to develop and audit the effectiveness of protocols.
- Ability to manage other staff to meet targets and objectives of the service
- Ability to implement HR procedures as appropriate
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to use systems approach
- Ability to provide leadership for the service
- Ability to manage and to work autonomously with case load
- Ability to work flexibly and innovatively.
- Good communication skills
- Ability to operate with an unpredictable work pattern.
- Ability to work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and were individuals may be antagonistic/ aggressive.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
