CAMHS Specialist Nurse/OT/Social Worker

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic qualified nurse, occupational therapist, or social worker to join Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent team. The post-holder will provide high quality specialist assessments, consultations, and evidence based therapeutic interventions for children and young people presenting with severe mental health difficulties.

The post holder must be a good team worker, will be responsible for working independently and managing a caseload of young people, ensuring safe and effective clinical practices.

The post holder will work within the multi-disciplinary team developing a mentalisation-based approach to working with adolescents with complex mental health presentations.

Main duties of the job

-To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
-To provide specialist mental health advice and consultation
-To engage therapeutically with young people and their carers in a variety of settings.
-To be able to plan and facilitate appropriate therapeutic intervention including group work for the specialist client group and their families and carers.
-To be able to assess and manage risk in children and young people and to do this on an on-going basis within the role as care coordinator.
-To communicate risks often effectively and appropriately under difficult, circumstances to medical staff, other professionals and families involved in the care of the client.
-To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
-To contribute to overall service delivery and development, with a particular focus on the CAMHS care pathway, as required.
-To work closely with the school based and community health professionals, carrying out joint assessments when appropriate.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

-We're Kind
-We're Fair
-We Listen
-We Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

-To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence-based interventions and routine outcome measures.
-To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools and the community.
-To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
-To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to school based and community staff e.g. Health Visitors, G.Ps.
-To provide training to school based and community staff e.g. Health Visitors, G.Ps.
-Within schools actively promote the whole school-based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
-To contribute to the Early Help and prevention service within Bexley, focussing on parents with ill health, substance misuse or domestic violence.
-To be aware of and take a role in the CYP Directorate participation programme.
-Train and mentor students and less experienced members of the discipline.
-To engage therapeutically with clients and their carers in a variety of settings as appropriate to the needs of the client and to be able to assess the risk of working in particular areas.
-To be able to plan and facilitate appropriate therapeutic intervention including group work for the specialist client group and their families and carers.
-To be able to assess and manage risk in children and young people and to do this on an on-going basis within the role as care coordinator.
-To communicate risks often effectively and appropriately under difficult circumstances to medical staff, other professionals and families involved in the care of the client.

Clinical

-To demonstrate the ability to work as an autonomous specialist practitioner in relation to the specialist area and in clinic which will include the reading and recording of the clinical observations of each child and the ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of treatment packages.
-To carry own caseload and take responsibility for the assessment, planning and evaluation of care for clients in the specialist area.
-To demonstrate the ability to develop specialist programmes of care for the specialist client group and their families in accordance with Trust and national standards, policies and guidelines and appropriate professional codes of conduct.
-To take case management responsibilities when appropriate in clinical meetings, giving clear clinical advice regarding assessment, Risk Assessment, formulation and treatment of identified clients.
-To recognise responsibility and act according to Trust and national guidelines in safeguarding children and adults.
-To demonstrate the ability to teach in informal and formal settings, e.g. carers at home, students on specialist placement
-To respond to the needs of clients and their carers in an honest, non-judgemental and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups.
-To demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities for all people.
-To understand the impact of social & cultural diversity on patients and carers needs and on their experiences of mental illness and mental health services.
-To respond to the diverse needs of the specialist client group and their carers sensitively with regard for age, developmental stage, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability and the need for their privacy and dignity
-To understand the rights of clients and carers and to assist them in exercising those rights, where appropriate.
-To undertake Carers assessments and devise an appropriate care plan.
-To have knowledge of appropriate legislation and its relevance to the specialist area.
-To take responsibility for the decision to discharge clients from care when agreed treatment programmes have been completed.
-To participate in individual and group supervision with colleagues in the specialist areas.
-To offer supervision to junior staff in agreement with the CAMHS service leads.
-To ensure that documentation is up to date, clear, concise, comprehensive and complies with Trust and national record keeping standards.
-To take responsibility to record own supervision in case notes or in supervision records in order to be able to reflect on the supervision process.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential
-RN Mental Health
-CQSW/CSS/DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification/Dip or BSc OT
-Specialist training in a subject/skill relevant to Child & and Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years) together with CYP IAPT Dip in CBT/SFP/IPT-A
-Registration with relevant Professional body

Experience

Essential
-At least 2 years post registration experience in a setting where mental health is the primary focus some of which should have been in a CAMHS setting.

Skills, Ability and Knowledge

Essential
-Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area

Effort and Environment

Essential
-Demonstrable ability to work under pressure and respond to emergency situations as appropriate
-The ability to engage and work with clients in differing environments in line with the needs of the service
-A flexible approach to client intervention and to be able to work independently and flexibly to meet client needs