CAMHS Urgent Care Nurse/CAMHS Practitioner – Development Post

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Full time
Are you looking for a new and exciting career working within CAMHS? Come join our innovative team and get the support you need to develop your career, as we offer an exciting opportunity to train at Band 5 with uplift to Band 6 within 12/18 months. These roles would be particularly suitable for newly qualified Nurses/Practitioners.

CAMHS 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 and North Derbyshire 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 and will require you to hold and manage your own caseload. These roles are based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Buxton Health Centre.

Main duties of the job To be able to work flexibly across all areas of the service with an enthusiasm needed to engage a wide range of diverse and complex presentations, managing high emotion and crisis as they occur. To be able to manage your own case load, working towards becoming an autonomous practitioner. To become confident in developing robust care and safety plans, including individual goals with the children and young people you assess. To be able to work face to face, via telephone and video. To feel confident in addressing and referring safeguarding concerns in line with Derbyshire's Thresholds of Need policy. Be able to contribute in TAF, CIN and CP meetings, compiling reports and making recommendations. To ensure that care is of the highest standard and delivered using evidence based interventions, care pathways and Chesterfield Policies and Procedures. To present a professional image and promote a positive image of CAMHS, and the Trust to service users, carers and the community as a whole.

About us 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 recognise 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.

Job description Job responsibilities 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.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential You must be a Registered Nurse, MH Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with relevant professional registration or have a Psychotherapy Degree - eg CBT (BACP).

Desirable Evidence of continued training and professional development. Evidence of training appropriate to child mental health care.

Experience Essential Provision of therapeutic intervention for people with emotional/mental health problems.

Desirable Evidence of clinical supervision experience. Experience of working with individuals, families and multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills Essential Able to develop good therapeutic relationships. Skills with working with others within a multi-disciplinary team and under supervision. High standard of written and verbal communication. Able to communicate well with a variety of people. Willingness to be flexible and adaptable. Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations. Ability to work within a team fostering good working relationships.

Desirable Experience with working with children and young people service users, their families and their carers. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.

Personal Attributes Essential Demonstrate knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues.

Desirable Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of effective clinical practice. Knowledge of contemporary policy and legislation relating to mental health and social care.

Employer details Employer name Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address Chesterfield Royal Hospital Calow Chesterfield S44 5BL

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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