Job summary
Tower Hamlets Specialist CAMHS
Community Crisis Nurse, TH CAMHS Community Crisis
Specialist CAMHS Clinician Post
Tower Hamlets Community CAMHS Crisis Response Team
Do you have the tenacity and skills to hit the ground running?
Band 7 Fixed term 23 months
(Full time post - 37.5 hrs. per week)
Main duties of the job
Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in Tower Hamlets are evolving and changing, wanting the very best services for our children and young people. As part of the Tower Hamlets CYP-IAPT collaborative with Social Care and the local voluntary sector; we are developing and transforming our local Tower Hamlets CAMHS Services. With the increased need for rapid response and meaningful interventions we are looking for someone like you to expand our Camhs Community Crisis response team (CCC), do you have what it takes?
In conjunction with partners in commissioning, health, social care and education, we are designing an outcome-based service where all provider agencies will work together to provide the highest quality service to our clients.
About us
As a service we embrace continual improvement with staff and the management team having a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement. Our generic Emotional and Behavioral pathways assess and treat a variety of children, young people, and their families in this busy East London CAMHS service. The successful candidates will offer as part of the specialist pathways accessible, flexible, timely and responsive CAMHS input to our service users, referrers and stakeholders respectively.
The post holders will be part of a multidisciplinary team offering goal-based episodes of care to young people, children and families presenting with a variety of challenges. The post will give the successful candidates a unique perspective and ability to work collaboratively in the 2 pathways. Trialing and innovating new methods of responding to young people and referrers who present in crisis or need specific specialist Bipolar and Psychosis input.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for good communicators who are motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and have the ability to work with complex cases and can work effectively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts. If you have a flexible and adaptive approach to your work; are commitment to solid evidence-based practice; and strive to give the highest possible quality of service; this post is for YOU!
You will have the qualifications and experience to work in a busy and sometimes challenging Tier 3 CAMHS service For more information please contact: Sharmeen Sultana Sheikh on 0207 426 2400 or email: sheikhsharmeen.sultana@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for good communicators who are motivated, enthusiastic, skilled and have the ability to work with complex cases and can work effectively within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts. If you have a flexible and adaptive approach to your work; are commitment to solid evidence-based practice; and strive to give the highest possible quality of service; this post is for YOU!
You will have the qualifications and experience to work in a busy and sometimes challenging Tier 3 CAMHS service For more information please contact: Sharmeen Sultana Sheikh on 0207 426 2400 or email: sheikhsharmeen.sultana@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN
- Able to study at degree level
Desirable
- Evidence of Post registration training e.g. Mentorship Training, IAPT, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of nursing policy, practice and education
- Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families
- Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London.
Experience
Essential
- To have worked within young peoples' mental health services
- To have experience of Community nursing at a band 6. (which if in Adult Mental Health would include some relevant training or evidence of knowledge in child and adolescent mental health)
- Experience of assessing with young people who present in crisis with an acute mental health presentation
- To have the ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
- Experience of working with young people with acute mental health difficulties in different community settings
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN
- Able to study at degree level
Desirable
- Evidence of Post registration training e.g. Mentorship Training, IAPT, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of nursing policy, practice and education
- Mental health issues relating to children, young people and families
- Knowledge of and sensitivity to the cultural differences within the ethnic community of East London.
Experience
Essential
- To have worked within young peoples' mental health services
- To have experience of Community nursing at a band 6. (which if in Adult Mental Health would include some relevant training or evidence of knowledge in child and adolescent mental health)
- Experience of assessing with young people who present in crisis with an acute mental health presentation
- To have the ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
- Experience of working with young people with acute mental health difficulties in different community settings
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).
