CAMHS North Derbyshire is looking to appoint committed Band 5 practitioners with a passion for working with children and young people and the ability to work across Chesterfield, North Derbyshire and High Peaks teams.
Successful candidates will commence on a specific learning pathway, offering training and support in core competencies required to work with moderate to severe presentations. The role will involve a rotation to allow you to experience all specialist areas within CAMHS, providing opportunities, which will include: Mental health and risk assessments Initial contact assessments Managing your own caseload These roles are based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
Key Responsibilities: Work flexibly across all areas of the service with enthusiasm to engage with a wide range of diverse and complex presentations, managing high emotion and crisis as they occur. Manage your own caseload, working towards becoming an autonomous practitioner. Develop robust care and safety plans, including individual goals with the children and young people you assess. Work face to face, via telephone and video. Address and refer safeguarding concerns in line with Derbyshire’s Thresholds of Need policy. Contribute in TAF, CIN and CP meetings, compiling reports and making recommendations. Ensure that care is of the highest standard and delivered using evidence-based interventions, care pathways, and Chesterfield Policies and Procedures. Present a professional image and promote a positive image of CAMHS and the Trust to service users, carers, and the community as a whole.
CAMHS is a friendly and supportive team which consists of a number of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, all skilled in working with children and young people with mental health issues. There are a number of different teams within the service and this post will require you to rotate through all of them.
Whilst you care for our young people and families, in turn we recognize the importance of caring for you – clinical supervision, career & personal development, and health & wellbeing support are all core to our service.
This career opportunity will allow you to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, which we are willing and happy to support through continued professional development.
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.
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