Job summary
The Highly Specialist CAMHS NMP will join the Neurodevelopmental team in Newham CAMHS to provide assessments and interventions in the specialist area of neurodivergent children and young people's (CYP) mental health care.
The purpose of the post is to provide a highly specialist non-medical prescribing within NDT to children and young people with mental health problems and their families. This is a part time (8 session) community-based NMP post, located within a comprehensive Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service within East London NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
contribute to the positive working environment within the Neurodevelopmental Pathway multi-disciplinary team.
require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
provide specialist advisory, training, consultation and liaison to support staff, teachers and nurses across the LEA, and Children and Young People's Services.
provide supervision and management, in agreement with the Clinical Team Lead, to junior colleagues within CAMHS, as applicable.
This post requires a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management. The post holder will be supervised by the Clinical Team Leads. There is a strong commitment to clinical supervision and professional development within CAMHS and the wider NHS Foundation Trust including many learning and teaching opportunities.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Newham CAMHS is a large and vibrant specialist child and adolescent mental health service with a reputation for innovation and flexibility in meeting the complex mental health support needs of Newham's children, young people and families. It is centrally located on one site in Plaistow, Newham, and provides an extensive and growing range of services including multi-disciplinary specialist teams such as the Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Adolescent Mental Health Team, Paediatric Liaison Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, and Mental Health in Schools Team. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines (over 50 whole time equivalent clinical staff) and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. The service undertakes considerable outreach and consultation work and training.
Please watch this video to learn more about Newham CAMHS from our service users and families: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_HEZhhybQ
The provisional date for interviews is - TBAPlease contact Dr Bethanne Willingham on 0208 430 9000 if you would like further information
Job description
Job responsibilities
Newham CAMHS is a large and vibrant specialist child and adolescent mental health service with a reputation for innovation and flexibility in meeting the complex mental health support needs of Newham's children, young people and families. It is centrally located on one site in Plaistow, Newham, and provides an extensive and growing range of services including multi-disciplinary specialist teams such as the Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Adolescent Mental Health Team, Paediatric Liaison Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, and Mental Health in Schools Team. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines (over 50 whole time equivalent clinical staff) and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working. The service undertakes considerable outreach and consultation work and training.
Please watch this video to learn more about Newham CAMHS from our service users and families: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_HEZhhybQ
The provisional date for interviews is - TBAPlease contact Dr Bethanne Willingham on 0208 430 9000 if you would like further information
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered qualification as health professional and as Non-Medical Prescriber
- Masters level degree Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period.
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience at Band 7 or above in delivering specialist mental health assessment and treatment interventions in CAMHS for children and young people, and their families, with autism, learning disability or both, and significant and complex behavioural or mental health problems
- Experience with prescribing to children and young people with complex presentations, including co-morbid neurodevelopmental and mental health difficulties
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context and with complex networks
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient/client groups across the whole life course presenting problems 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
- Experience of working with children and young people in an emotionally demanding environment
- Experience of working with children, young people and families in severe crisis
- Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues and serious mental health problems, including challenging behaviour
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience/knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters
- Experience of providing consultation in the multi-agency context
- Experience, skills and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
- Experience of providing supervision
Desirable
- Experience of teaching and training, developing and delivering academic modules or programmes
- Experience of presenting clinical practice and research at local level
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Extensive and expert knowledge and experience of health and psychosocial needs of CYP with neurodevelopmental issues.
- Evidence of continuing professional and clinical development within the sphere of neurodevelopmental difficulties and CYP mental health issues.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills and excellent presentation skills
- Highly competent in all aspects of Information Technology
- Knowledge and practice of research process Ability to work autonomously and make independent clinical judgements and decisions prioritising concurrent and competing issues
- Sufficient knowledge of other modalities to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and ethical issues, including The Children Act, and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management
- Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
- Knowledge of current developments in CAMH guidelines and recommendations for assessment and intervention with children and adolescents with learning disability or autism or both.
Other
Essential
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others
- Working to local and national protocol and guidelines
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures
- Ability to endure prolonged periods of concentration for extended client therapy sessions.
- Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial period of working time
- Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered qualification as health professional and as Non-Medical Prescriber
- Masters level degree Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD) in keeping with qualification period.
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience at Band 7 or above in delivering specialist mental health assessment and treatment interventions in CAMHS for children and young people, and their families, with autism, learning disability or both, and significant and complex behavioural or mental health problems
- Experience with prescribing to children and young people with complex presentations, including co-morbid neurodevelopmental and mental health difficulties
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context and with complex networks
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient/client groups across the whole life course presenting problems 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
- Experience of working with children and young people in an emotionally demanding environment
- Experience of working with children, young people and families in severe crisis
- Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues and serious mental health problems, including challenging behaviour
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management
- Experience/knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters
- Experience of providing consultation in the multi-agency context
- Experience, skills and flexibility to contribute to and facilitate effective working within a multi-disciplinary team setting
- Experience of providing supervision
Desirable
- Experience of teaching and training, developing and delivering academic modules or programmes
- Experience of presenting clinical practice and research at local level
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Extensive and expert knowledge and experience of health and psychosocial needs of CYP with neurodevelopmental issues.
- Evidence of continuing professional and clinical development within the sphere of neurodevelopmental difficulties and CYP mental health issues.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills and excellent presentation skills
- Highly competent in all aspects of Information Technology
- Knowledge and practice of research process Ability to work autonomously and make independent clinical judgements and decisions prioritising concurrent and competing issues
- Sufficient knowledge of other modalities to engage appropriately with colleagues and their work with clients
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and ethical issues, including The Children Act, and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management
- Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
- Knowledge of current developments in CAMH guidelines and recommendations for assessment and intervention with children and adolescents with learning disability or autism or both.
Other
Essential
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others
- Working to local and national protocol and guidelines
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies
- Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures
- Ability to endure prolonged periods of concentration for extended client therapy sessions.
- Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial period of working time
- Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic 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).
