Clinical Nurse Specialist

3 weeks ago


Cheltenham, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

This is an excellent opportunity to work in the children's Learning Disability Service. We are seeking a highly motivated and committed individual to join our team. The post holders will be based in Cheltenham but allocated a locality patch within Gloucestershire, therefore your own transport is essential. This is a great opportunity for part time working.

We work with Children and young people who attend a special school, we see them at home, in clinic or in school to deliver evidence based interventions.

This is a specialist role involves holding a clinical caseload of children and young people with moderate-severe Learning Disabilities. To offer assessment and interventions to children experiencing, mental health difficulties and or challenging behaviour, including sleep difficulties. We adopt a PBS (positive behaviour support) approach throughout our work.

As part of this role you will be leading and having oversight of the clinical pathways around challenging behaviour and mental health, You will be expected to offer high quality clinical supervision to other nurses. The role will also involve supporting other band 7 nurses in the team to ensure compliance and oversight of the waiting list and other duties.

Main duties of the job

Provide a range of specialist LD CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities. Provide clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high risk clinical formulation and decision making, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. There will be a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi agency needs

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views ( It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; would recommend the organisation as a place to work; agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority; would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Core key responsibilities will be agreed within personal job plans and will reflect the expected clinical and operational functions of the team

Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice. Provide clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high risk clinical formulation and decision making, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. There will be a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi agency needs. For Clinical Psychology: to provide a direct service for complex psychological issues Provide CAMHS specialist clinical risk assessments and complex risk management plans as part of routine clinical work ensuring that all aspects of clinical caseload work adheres to current Trust safeguarding as well as risk assessment and management best practice procedures. This will include undertaking specialist Self Harm risk assessments of children and young people. Demonstrate enhanced competency regarding complex clinical decision making and clinical formulation. For Clinical Psychology : Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and case management through psychologically based care plans. Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff on a routine basis to facilitate the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies within the workforce (not applicable for Clinical Psychology). Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CAMHS CPD/core competency training

Provide specialist CAMHS clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team where expected roles, responsibilities and activity/performance expectations are outlined within a personal (team based)

Person Specification

Education

Essential

RNLD/RNMH

Desirable

Post Grad qualification

Experience

Essential

Working with children with a Learning Disability

Desirable

Use of PBS model

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