Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Halton CAMHS team (child and adolescent mental health services) for an experienced/skilled and passionate practitioner to support the mental health of children and young people with ASC / LD. As a specialist practitioner you will be responsible for leading multi-agency plans to support CYP.
You will deliver therapeutic intervention to meet the needs of CYP and complete appropriate safety plans. As an specialist practitioner you will be key in developing and supporting local pathways of care and support and evaluation of services and training to the wider system. You will also offer consultation which includes working with partner health organisations, CSC, Education and third sector organisations and is a very important aspect to our work.
The post holder will be a key member of the CYPMHS in delivering a highly specialised clinical service to Children and Young People and their families and carers with LD/ASC and mental health co-morbidity and the wider multidisciplinary team - they will be integral to ensuring efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality service and care are delivered.The post holder will also be required to be proactive with audit, research, education and training to ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within CYPMHS is incorporated into systems and processes
This post is subject toan enhanced with children's and adult's barred listDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Main duties of the job
As a specialist practitioner, the post holder will provide a specialised role in the development and implementation of services and care pathways for children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] ,and Learning Disability / Autistic Spectrum Conditions [ ASC] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide specialist interventions, advice, consultancy and supervision to both colleagues and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to perfect care care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. Were currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide highly specialised clinical advice and support to CYP, families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team this will include clinical assessment, diagnostic skills, non-medical prescribing where appropriate and implementation of management and treatment plans.Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.Work cooperatively and collaboratively with other services/stakeholders to enable service users are treated in the most appropriate setting.Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to CYP, Families and Carers with both planned and unplanned care needs.Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.Participate in the development of caseload management across the mental health and health economy.Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.Acts as an advocate and champion for CYP and Families/Carers in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the wider healthcare when managing complex and highly complex situations.Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.Formulating and following holistic assessment of health needs, develop specialist individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of CYP and Families/Carers.Implement and evaluate care delivery for CYP and Families/Carers with identified needs.Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
Work with team leader and service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.Support team leader to provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested.Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.Support team leader with PACE reviews of team members.Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs.Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers.Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.Participate in audits and research, as required.Participate in individual and group supervision.Support with the implementation of mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.Initiate training and development of team members. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping.In conjunction with the team leader and service lead, ensure systems are in place for the on-going review and assessment of care provision and delivery.Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader and service lead.Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the team leader and service lead.Monitor and ensure that the quality of care delivered by the team is evidence based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.Participate in CYP and Families/Carers satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.Support with the identification of skills deficits within the team and identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide highly specialised clinical advice and support to CYP, families and carers and the wider multidisciplinary team this will include clinical assessment, diagnostic skills, non-medical prescribing where appropriate and implementation of management and treatment plans.Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.Work cooperatively and collaboratively with other services/stakeholders to enable service users are treated in the most appropriate setting.Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to CYP, Families and Carers with both planned and unplanned care needs.Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.Participate in the development of caseload management across the mental health and health economy.Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.Acts as an advocate and champion for CYP and Families/Carers in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the wider healthcare when managing complex and highly complex situations.Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.Formulating and following holistic assessment of health needs, develop specialist individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of CYP and Families/Carers.Implement and evaluate care delivery for CYP and Families/Carers with identified needs.Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
Work with team leader and service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.Support team leader to provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested.Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.Support team leader with PACE reviews of team members.Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs.Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers.Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.Participate in audits and research, as required.Participate in individual and group supervision.Support with the implementation of mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.Initiate training and development of team members. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping.In conjunction with the team leader and service lead, ensure systems are in place for the on-going review and assessment of care provision and delivery.Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader and service lead.Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the team leader and service lead.Monitor and ensure that the quality of care delivered by the team is evidence based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.Participate in CYP and Families/Carers satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.Support with the identification of skills deficits within the team and identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development
Person Specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Core professional qualification in registered nurse, social work, Occupational therapy
- Masters or equivalent level of experience
- Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained)
- Qualification in clinical supervision
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of specialist mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
- Highly skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and /or clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Experience of delivering teaching, training and supervision
- Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experienced in and the ability to provide case management supervision for CAMHS staff, students and other service groups/ team professionals as required
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Advanced knowledge and skills in the complete range of approaches within special field of work as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.
- Advanced level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
- Have experienced in providing complex risk assessments
- Must demonstrate ability to be self reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
- Ability to work within a culturally diversive community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.
- Advanced knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
- Ability to take full clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.
VALUES
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Person Specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Core professional qualification in registered nurse, social work, Occupational therapy
- Masters or equivalent level of experience
- Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained)
- Qualification in clinical supervision
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of specialist mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
- Highly skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and /or clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Experience of delivering teaching, training and supervision
- Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experienced in and the ability to provide case management supervision for CAMHS staff, students and other service groups/ team professionals as required
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Advanced knowledge and skills in the complete range of approaches within special field of work as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.
- Advanced level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
- Have experienced in providing complex risk assessments
- Must demonstrate ability to be self reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
- Ability to work within a culturally diversive community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.
- Advanced knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
- Ability to take full clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.
VALUES
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
