Job summary
This is a specialised role within CAMH Service within CTMUHB ensuring the mental health needs are met for those with Learning Disabilities (LD), ensuring the client and carer are fully involved in the process.
The post holder will integrate with education services, but will be professionally supervised by the CAMHS directorate.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines of the LD/CAMHS framework.
To support the delivery of care to a defined case load of young people across the CTMUHB area who are identified as presenting with a learning disability and mental health needs. This involves providing specialist learning disability consultation, mental health screening and assessment that will be completed in collaboration with all members of the multi-disciplinary team, CAMHS, In-reach services, other agencies, service users, their families and carers.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
Provide and contribute to specialist assessments by drawing on their relevant professional training and expertise. This will require working with complex assessment material of clients referred to the MDT team detailed assessment of mental health need and risk.
The post holder may be case coordinator for a number of cases, collating and directing the overall team assessment.
The post holder will be responsible for presenting assessment material to the MDT/Professional group to enable team consideration of formulation and recommendation issues.
Prepare and deliver therapeutic interventions with individuals, groups, or families, as appropriate, communicating complex, sensitive condition related information to clients and their relatives, where individuals may be hostile and where there are barriers to understanding eg. Refusal to accept conditions, other mental health issues.
Deliver appropriate teaching, training and educational inputs to other professionals within CAMHS and other relevant agencies.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person Specification
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential
- Degree Qualification RMN / RLDN Relevant Masters' Degree or demonstrate specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters' Degree equivalency/ working towards. Relevant postgraduate qualification or relevant continued professional development portfolio e.g. specialist training in Learning Disability field. Evidence of post- registration continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters level.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with children and young people in a relevant setting including experience in CAMHS and another appropriate setting such as Learning Disabilities Service. Experience of working with risky clients, as well as seeing clients in in-patient and community settings, and working in the least restrictive environment. Experience of providing effective, holistic consultation to multi- disciplinary colleagues.
Desirable
- Supervision of clinical staff and/or students. Experience of providing mental health services intervention within non-NHS settings such as Community or Local Authority settings.
Aptitude/Abilities
Essential
- Highly developed skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Evidence of continuing professional development. Demonstrate ability to organise and prioritise clinical and professional commitments. Organisational ability and time management skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing. Ability to work within professional guidelines of registering body. Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and awareness of current evidence base relevant to the area of practice. Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
Desirable
- Trained in a therapeutic approach(es). Skills in developing and co-ordinating training packages, consultation for other professionals and appropriate interventions. Ability to speak Welsh
- Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above
Values
Essential
- Enthusiastic, resilient, self-motivated, flexible and adaptable. Ability to manage anxiety of self and others. Able to work using own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas. Able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills. Able to communicate competently with clients, relatives and fellow staff. Able to work in situations where there is a risk of verbal and/or physical aggression.
Other
Essential
- Enhanced DBS Check Able to travel to across sites, and to visit clients at home across the area in a timely manner.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Knowledge
Essential
- Degree Qualification RMN / RLDN Relevant Masters' Degree or demonstrate specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters' Degree equivalency/ working towards. Relevant postgraduate qualification or relevant continued professional development portfolio e.g. specialist training in Learning Disability field. Evidence of post- registration continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters level.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with children and young people in a relevant setting including experience in CAMHS and another appropriate setting such as Learning Disabilities Service. Experience of working with risky clients, as well as seeing clients in in-patient and community settings, and working in the least restrictive environment. Experience of providing effective, holistic consultation to multi- disciplinary colleagues.
Desirable
- Supervision of clinical staff and/or students. Experience of providing mental health services intervention within non-NHS settings such as Community or Local Authority settings.
Aptitude/Abilities
Essential
- Highly developed skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Evidence of continuing professional development. Demonstrate ability to organise and prioritise clinical and professional commitments. Organisational ability and time management skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing. Ability to work within professional guidelines of registering body. Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and awareness of current evidence base relevant to the area of practice. Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
Desirable
- Trained in a therapeutic approach(es). Skills in developing and co-ordinating training packages, consultation for other professionals and appropriate interventions. Ability to speak Welsh
- Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above
Values
Essential
- Enthusiastic, resilient, self-motivated, flexible and adaptable. Ability to manage anxiety of self and others. Able to work using own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas. Able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills. Able to communicate competently with clients, relatives and fellow staff. Able to work in situations where there is a risk of verbal and/or physical aggression.
Other
Essential
- Enhanced DBS Check Able to travel to across sites, and to visit clients at home across the area in a timely manner.
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).
