Mental Health NurseNHS
Job summary
Are you passionate about Children and Young Peoples mental health and want to make a real difference? A career in Kirklees CAMHS as a Mental Health Practitioner may be just what you are looking for.
We are recruiting a Nurse, Social Worker or Allied Health Professional with post qualifying experience working in mental health to help us strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of the young people and their families in our communities.
Our vision is to deliver high quality care that is safe, simple and easy to access.
In return we offer a supportive induction, development and training, pension and consider flexible working. Staff counselling, salary sacrifice schemes and supportive staff networks are readily available for staff to participate in.
There will be options to develop your specialist knowledge by working with our PCN (Primary care network) team, to provide mental health support to those referred to our service from primary care.
We place staff health and wellbeing at the top of our agenda and it is important for us to recruit a person whose values and beliefs align with our Trust values.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
You will have the right attitude, skills and knowledge to share our passion in delivering the best quality care experience for children and their families at point of initial contact with CAMHS services.
Your duties will be related to leading on the clinical delivery of care to children, young people and their families accessing CAMHS from first presentation to management of existing mental health presentations alongside providing high quality supervision to the team.
The role calls for a professional who has vast experience of triaging mental health presentation ideally with children, young people and their families who are experiencing mental health and trauma difficulties.
Part of the job plan entails pre planned and on the day assessments, follow up assessments, collaboration with GP's within the Kirklees locality, multidisciplinary team working, and referral to suitable services within the area. The role also includes participating in the duty role for Kirklees CAMHS and providing clinical oversight to partner agencies.
The CAMHS team is a strong and supportive team and has excellent structures to offer supervision.
You will be working in a fast-paced environment at an important time in our development, as we push forward with implementing new ways of working in order to best meet the needs of the population we work with.
Job description
JOB SUMMARY
The post-holder will:
Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs;
Work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals;
Promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.
To provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
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To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.
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To provide assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the CAPA model.
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To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.
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To be committed to a quality approach for patient care.
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The post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues.
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To manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual need.
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To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework.
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To provide training, consultation and supervision to other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families.
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To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision.
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To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners.
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To work collaboratively with all services to provide coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and targeted groups.
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To use a range of Information Technology systems (including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially
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To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical incidents are reported.
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To comply with both clinical and corporate governance frameworks.
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To support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service improvement and redesign.
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To actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities and wishes of the individuals concerned.
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To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
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Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations.
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To maintain relevant professional registration
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To identify and communicate any concerns through the relevant management processes.
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To demonstrate continued practice development and engage in annual appraisal.
For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.
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About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.