Job summary
This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join Rochdale CAMHS Single Point of Access Team (SPOA) and support the development of the CYPMH offer into our local communities. You will work in partnership with early help services and our local multi-agency safeguarding hubs to ensure that our referral pathways are accessible, delivered in true partnership and ensure children ,young people and families that need mental health advice and support can get what they need quickly and easily.
You will also lead and manage an established community based workforce, ensuring that they support the implementation of the Thrive model of care for Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health (CYPMH). 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
You will act as the first point of contact for professionals making a referral into Rochdales Single Point of Access.
Screening referrals and signposting to the wealth of internal and external service providers for children and young peoples mental health across the Borough.
You will be responsible for the coordination and allocation of consultations to Locality Mental Health Practitioner (LMHPs) ensuring a service is provided to professionals in a timely manner enabling young people to receive the right support, at the right time, from the right practitioners.
Provide management and clinical supervision to the LMHPs within the service.
Be instrumental in identifying gaps in service provision enabling these to be escalated to allow for service and system future planning across the borough.
Attend panel meetings for various cohorts of young people with specific vulnerabilities such as youth offending service, cared for children panel etc.
Work alongside colleagues in Social Care, Health, Education and the Police to ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people with an identified mental health need in the borough.
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.
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
Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within our SPOA service. This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:
- Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience.
- Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP.
- Good understanding and commitment to the CAMHS transformation agenda
- Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence.
- Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details and contact us if you require any further information or wish to discuss the post further
Job description
Job responsibilities
Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within our SPOA service. This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:
- Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience.
- Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP.
- Good understanding and commitment to the CAMHS transformation agenda
- Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence.
- Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details and contact us if you require any further information or wish to discuss the post further
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Registered Nurse - Mental Health with NMC registration/Social worker with SW registration
- Short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level
Experience
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
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
- 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
Essential
- Registered Nurse - Mental Health with NMC registration/Social worker with SW registration
- Short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level
Experience
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
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
- 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).
