Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

CAMHS Health Care Support Worker

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Job summary

Are you interested in working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health? The Fareham & Gosport team is pleased to invite applications for the role of Health Care Support worker to work alongside our clinicians across our busy duty service and ADHD monitoring clinics.

In this role you will have the chance to really make a difference, you will be gathering information, liaising with professionals, be part of the multi disciplinary discussions and have opportunities to talk to parents about where and how they can get support for their children.

This role would is well suited to someone already in a HCSW role or those considering mental health nursing or social work careers, and assistant Psychologists wanting to gain experience in CAMHS. This role is a part-time post at 22.50 hours per week.

If you enjoy working within a team, have good communication skills and enjoy working with children, young people and their families we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Working with members of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate the development and delivery of the CAMHS duty Service.

This includes analysis of information received from parents and professionals, information gathering and telephone contact to determine risk and inform a multidisciplinary formulation.

Puts service users' needs at the heart of the job, keeping people safe, contributes to effective interventions, and responds compassionately to distress.

To work under close clinical supervision from a registered professional to provide high quality care as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, informed by skills in communication, analysis of information, planning and organisational skills.

To complete physical observations within the ADHD Clinic and support the clinical team within medication monitoring appointments,

About us

Hampshire CAMHS are an exciting and creative service that works with young people and families up to the age of 18 years. We have a CQC rating of outstanding for care and good for all remaining domains. We have received nationally recognised awards for our inspirational, forward thinking work and unique style.

If you are enthusiastic & passionate about Children's Mental Health look no further. You will be working alongside a team of experienced and highly motivated clinicians who will support you wherever you are in your career journey. We have established processes and a greatly supportive Leadership team enabling you to develop further.

Our organisation has been applauded for embracing the digital technology in our Business continuity plan during the pandemic. We have set up a range of remote working possibilities giving the clinical team utmost flexibility to work safely and effectively during this time. There are plentiful opportunities to enrich and develop your career within the service.

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

29 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year pro rata for part time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share

Reference number

354-CH-20750

Job locations

Osborn Centre

Osborn Road

Farehamn

PO16 7ES

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please do ensure that you address each element of the person specification and job description before applying

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please do ensure that you address each element of the person specification and job description before applying

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Working towards a Batchelor's degree in a mental health related subject, such as Nursing, Social Work , Occupational Therapy

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
Experience working as part of a team
Experience of being supervised
Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Working towards a Batchelor's degree in a mental health related subject, such as Nursing, Social Work , Occupational Therapy

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
Experience working as part of a team
Experience of being supervised
Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing

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).

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