CAMHS Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist

2 months ago

Mitcham, United Kingdom South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you a Clinical Nurse Specialist with significant experience at band 7 and great communication skills. Do you have the tenacity and skills to hit the ground running and impact positively the lives of young people needing Mental Health support?

Merton Tier 3 Team is an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for young people presenting to the service with moderate to severe mental health needs and high-risk profiles. We work closely with colleagues to provide cohesive care centred around the needs of young people and their families.

We are looking for a committed CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider service development initiatives.

Main duties of the job

The role will be to provide a flexible, timely response to young people and their families who require urgent Mental Health assessments, and /or robust risk management. The postholder will have a caseload within the Multi-disciplinary Tier 3 CAMHS Service at Merton T3

The children and young people will be known to Merton CAMHS or may be urgently referred by GP, Schools or Social Workers. The role facilitates joint working with team consultants and therapists from the tier 3 teams, Children's emergency care team (CEC's), A&E and SLP Children's out of hours service, working with young people deemed at risk.

You will feel comfortable taking a lead when required to co-ordinate multiagency response to risk management and you will be skilled in building collaborative and meaningful working relationships with colleagues.

This role is open to qualified Nurses with the following:

Qualification as Registered Mental Health Nurse registered with the NMC. Experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community The ability to efficiently manage a high-risk caseload Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding The ability to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals who are contributing directly to the assessment, formulation and treatment plan of young people. To work in close liaison with other childrens services including health, social care services, education and the voluntary sector. To formulate assessment and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child or adolescents self-harm mental health needs, using frameworks which take account of an analysis of a complex range of information from multiple sources, and uses methods of intervention based upon evidence of effectiveness across the full range of care settings. To manage meetings that routinely involve parents/carers and other professionals, where viewpoints can be different and in conflict. To frequently manage complex and emotionally charged meetings with children and families where clients may be hostile, antagonistic or have high expressed emotion. To be responsible for managing and prioritizing own workload of children and adolescents involving self-harm To provide appropriate therapy as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment plan. To be responsible for implementing a range of group work interventions focusing on life skills training, motivational and creative activities, systemic, psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups. To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses and adjusting and changing treatment options. To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information, for example regarding the experience and effects of anorexia and bulimia on a young persons physical and developmental status. To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age appropriate language, being mindful that the information may be unwelcome. To be mindful of the needs of children, young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual religious and social backgrounds, and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs.

Professional

To ensure Trust standards of recording and information governance are maintained. To provide consultation and training in relation to self-harm/risk management to a range of colleagues and professional groups as appropriate.

Teaching, Training and Supervision

To receive regular clinical supervision from the Service Manager To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy. To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal. To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP). Support placement, learning and supervision of student nurses and learners. Person Specification

Training & Qualification

Essential

First degree in mental health nursing Professional registration with NMC Evidence of relevant professional development

Desirable

Further post registration training in child and adolescent mental health Supervision training An appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training. ( ENB 998 or Practice Teacher Award) A postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health.

Experience

Essential

Significant post qualification experience Significant experience of working with self-harm Significant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups Leadership experience Experience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process Working in a multi-disciplinary team Providing and receiving supervision Establishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy

Desirable

Experience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training Conducting service evaluations Working collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services Work in a range of settings inpatient, community, residential Experience of working in a community setting Coaching skills, qualification.

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