Job Description
Due to substantial investment, we are now in a position to recruit to the CAMHS Urgent Care Provision which covers Crisis, Home Treatment and Liaison services for young people.
- Crisis and Home Treatment has an emphasis on being able to support in the most complex times of a young persons life, and help them to stabilise in their mental health.
- Liaison focusses on ensuring that anyone under 18 attending one of our esteemed hospitals has timely access to a sound, high quality assessment for their mental health.
- Both services support young people and their families therapeutically to help them navigate through the period of crisis.
Note: Practitioners will be able to specialise in one of these areas but there will be an expectation that they may need to cover all areas as service requires. This allows for greater breadth of experience and scope for development.
You must be a Registered Nurse, Dip SW or equivalent social work qualification (CSS, CQSW, degree in social work), Allied Health Professional registered with the HCPC and accredited by a HCPC recognised body e.g. BABCP.
As a CAMHS Urgent Care Practitioner, you will:
- Work as part of an MDT to assess, formulate and support young people and their families when they are in a crisis situation and require access to mental health support. This may be in the community or in one of the acute hospitals.
- Offer targeted follow up interventions in a range of therapeutic modalities and training will be provided to help staff continue to build their careers.
- Manage mental health risk and work with the network around the young person to ensure safety and wellbeing.
We are seeking and developing a highly skilled, experienced, compassionate, flexible and motivated workforce. To support this, we set high standards for the care and support we offer; this is supported by a robust induction period, a team-based approach to managing risk, on site and visible senior leadership support and specialist training opportunities. Full training will be provided.
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career.
Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people – our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
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The CAMHS Urgent Care Teams, incorporating Crisis, Home Treatment and Liaison pathways, are welcoming, friendly and dedicated to ensuring that young people in a mental health crisis get access to the right support in the right place at the right time. The teams are busy, supportive and encouraging of new and creative ways to innovate and improve the service we deliver.
We are a 24/7 service operating a self-rostering system for our staff.
Our team work Long Days of 8am – 8pm and Nights of 8pm – 8am. Rotas are prepared well in advance and we aim to promote staff wellbeing and work / life balance.
Enhancements are paid for weekend and evening / night working.
- Observe and adhere to the CAMHS Service
Specification, vision, aims and objectives
- Offer clinical assessment and evidence-based intervention
whilst observing current best practice, legislation and
guidance
- Working within Children and Young People’s Improved
Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT)
frameworks and principles
- Aim to be innovative and creative in the delivery of
therapeutic intervention/care bundle, and offer psycho education to children, young people and families around their mental health crisis needs
- Contribute to a shared team caseload whilst considering and adhering to
safeguarding policy and procedure and national and local
legislation
- Offer support and supervision to junior colleagues and receive regular Clinical and Operational supervision to maintain practice. Participate in group supervisions facilitated by specialist practitioners including Systemic Family Therapy and CBT Psychotherapists.
- Plan and successfully manage smooth transitions where
they are clinically indicated
- Seek support from the Clinical and Operational Leads and Clinical Nurse Specialists / Senior Specialist Practitioners where needed.
- Support peers and colleagues and promote a team working environment
- Ensure suitable risk management and care plans are
formulated for all clinical cases
- Maintain contemporaneous records in alignment with Trust
policy
- Work in partnership with other teams within the
Nottinghamshire and bordering CAMHS Services
- To offer consultation through a range of initiatives to
professionals with an aim of enhancing workforce skills,
knowledge and capacity in recognising emotional/mental
health and well-being needs and undertaking interventions
with children and families to achieve positive outcomes
- To participate in the delivery of a range of training
programmes to multi agency staff in conjunction with the
CAMHS Training Lead
- Support colleagues and stakeholders in tackling stigma
relating to mental health
- Be willing to undertake training relating to the CYP IAPT
agenda and other areas of development as outlined.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is preferred for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
To discuss this role please feel free to contact the team or arrange an insight visit on 0808 196 3779
Kacey Sharkey, Operational Team Lead. Email: kacey.sharkey@nottshc.nhs.uk
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