NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: CAMHS Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 166-FC-6304368 Site: Chesterfield Royal Hospital Town: Chesterfield Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa Salary period: Yearly Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59 Job overview
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
Work flexibly across all areas of the service with enthusiasm to engage 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. Working for our organisation
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, 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. Detailed job description and main 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
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). Evidence of continued training and professional development. Evidence of training appropriate to child mental health care. Experience
Provision of therapeutic intervention for people with emotional/mental health problems. Evidence of clinical supervision experience. Experience of working with individuals, families and multi-disciplinary teams. Skills
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. 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
Demonstrate knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues. 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. Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you. Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients; therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.
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Main area: CAMHS Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 166-FC-6304368 Site: Chesterfield Royal Hospital Town: Chesterfield Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa Salary period: Yearly Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59 Job overview
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
Work flexibly across all areas of the service with enthusiasm to engage 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. Working for our organisation
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, 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. Detailed job description and main 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
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). Evidence of continued training and professional development. Evidence of training appropriate to child mental health care. Experience
Provision of therapeutic intervention for people with emotional/mental health problems. Evidence of clinical supervision experience. Experience of working with individuals, families and multi-disciplinary teams. Skills
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. 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
Demonstrate knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues. 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. Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you. Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients; therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.
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