Mental Health Nurse (RMN) CAMHS

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Hastings CAMHS are seeking to recruit dynamic and innovative mental health nurses to join our experienced and motivated team to work with children, young people and their families presenting with significant mental health disorders. If you enjoy being a part of a team, are creative and want to make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people then we would be delighted to hear from you.

The ideal candidates will be mental health nurses who have had either community care coordinator roles within mental health teams and/or experience of working with children and young people.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

Main duties of the job

You will use your knowledge, experience and skills to join the multidisciplinary team to undertake high quality mental health and clinical risk assessments, and deliver therapeutic evidenced based interventions both individually and as a group facilitator.

You will Care Coordinate a caseload, to offer therapeutic engagement to stabilise and reduce risk in acute presentations, and liaise with professional networks to improve outcomes and access to support outside of CAMHS.

You will confident to manage clinical calls into service, and you will be competent to complete prioritised reviews and liaise with clinicians from other teams within East Sussex CAMHS, as well as partner agencies, including children services and schools to encourage collaborative working to provide support around a child or young person.

This role also holds the expectation to clinically supervise junior staff and act as a practice supervisor or assessor to nursing students on placement with us.

About us

You will be supported by a passionate and experienced leadership team, with clear and robust structures of supervision and governance which offer assurance for safe and effective practice.

You will be supported to undertake training to support your revalidation and continued professional development needs, and will engage in regular line management and clinical supervision separately.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Date posted

13 June 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£32,306 to £39,027 a year per annum/pro rata for part time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

354-CS-20886-A

Job locations

St Anne's Community Service Centre

729 The Ridge

St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex

TN35 5LE

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification and consider all these elements when completing your application.

We look forward to hearing from you

This post offers a Golden Hello, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £2000. (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions. Please see attached Protocol document).

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification and consider all these elements when completing your application.

We look forward to hearing from you

This post offers a Golden Hello, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £2000. (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions. Please see attached Protocol document).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

Essential

Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
Experience of supervising staff
Experience of managing a caseload
Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

Essential

Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
Experience of supervising staff
Experience of managing a caseload
Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments

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).