Are you a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a passion for working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma and have complex needs?
Are you motivated by a role where you can make a huge difference to the lives of young people in a mental health crisis in the community?
If so, our senior practitioner post in CAMHS Urgent Help Service is for you!
This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a knowledgeable, dynamic mental health practitioner. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing high-quality crisis care to our young people.
Main duties of the job
Your main duties will involve: Providing comprehensive crisis assessment of mental health specific to needs of service area. Managing a small caseload of clients in crisis with complex mental health needs and undertaking case management/lead professional/CPA as needed. Communicating with and meeting the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client. Having experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in clinical area. Taking a lead on clinical matters and policy development relating to clinical practice. Providing clinical leadership. Being part of the recruitment and selection process of different staff professionals who make up our clinical team. Being aware of care group and Trust policies and protocols within the Chyps Directorate. Developing and participating in the delivery of a supervision structure for junior colleagues. Providing clinical supervision to team members to help maintain clinical standards and team wellbeing. This is a full-time (1 WTE) post. About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. We'd love you to join our Trust that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognize that care for patients is our top priority. Job responsibilities
In order to be a successful Senior Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be: Registered with the NMC/HCPC/SW England Experienced in risk management Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role Adaptable, organised, compassionate, and a team player Experienced working within a mental health setting It would also be advantageous if you are: Experienced working in CAMHS (Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services) and/or inpatient settings, experience with developmental trauma, neuro-disability and/or forensic CAMHS. A nurse prescriber qualification would also be desirable. Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role. The Urgent Help Service supports children and young people who are experiencing mental health conditions and difficulties that are putting themselves or others at risk, for example if they are having psychotic symptoms or showing signs of wanting to take their own life. The service works closely with the young person, their family/carers to develop a care plan, which sets out their goals and what treatments they have agreed together to try. The team regularly reviews progress to make sure that the treatment is working and helping them to get back on track. If things are not improving they will look at other ways they may be able to help. Urgent Help pride themselves on a team approach and working together to promote the recovery of our young people. Interested?
For more information about the post please contact: Nicola Chainey - Head of Service CAMHS Acute -
01444 472670 We are happy to arrange informal visits. Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact: Nicola Chainey - Head of Service CAMHS Acute -
01444 472670 Interview date: TBC Person Specification
Qualifications
Degree/Diploma in occupational therapy or Nursing/Social Work Evidence of post qualification study Registration with the HPC, NMC or Social Work England Training in the use of standardised assessment tools Knowledge/Experience
Broad experience of working with young people with a range of mental health problems Experience of multidisciplinary working Experience of supervising staff and students Experience with Looked after and Adopted children Experience of multi-agency work Experience in applying a range of assessment tools and a comprehensive knowledge of clinical approaches Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Your main duties will involve: Providing comprehensive crisis assessment of mental health specific to needs of service area. Managing a small caseload of clients in crisis with complex mental health needs and undertaking case management/lead professional/CPA as needed. Communicating with and meeting the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client. Having experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in clinical area. Taking a lead on clinical matters and policy development relating to clinical practice. Providing clinical leadership. Being part of the recruitment and selection process of different staff professionals who make up our clinical team. Being aware of care group and Trust policies and protocols within the Chyps Directorate. Developing and participating in the delivery of a supervision structure for junior colleagues. Providing clinical supervision to team members to help maintain clinical standards and team wellbeing. This is a full-time (1 WTE) post. About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. We'd love you to join our Trust that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognize that care for patients is our top priority. Job responsibilities
In order to be a successful Senior Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be: Registered with the NMC/HCPC/SW England Experienced in risk management Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role Adaptable, organised, compassionate, and a team player Experienced working within a mental health setting It would also be advantageous if you are: Experienced working in CAMHS (Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services) and/or inpatient settings, experience with developmental trauma, neuro-disability and/or forensic CAMHS. A nurse prescriber qualification would also be desirable. Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role. The Urgent Help Service supports children and young people who are experiencing mental health conditions and difficulties that are putting themselves or others at risk, for example if they are having psychotic symptoms or showing signs of wanting to take their own life. The service works closely with the young person, their family/carers to develop a care plan, which sets out their goals and what treatments they have agreed together to try. The team regularly reviews progress to make sure that the treatment is working and helping them to get back on track. If things are not improving they will look at other ways they may be able to help. Urgent Help pride themselves on a team approach and working together to promote the recovery of our young people. Interested?
For more information about the post please contact: Nicola Chainey - Head of Service CAMHS Acute -
01444 472670 We are happy to arrange informal visits. Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact: Nicola Chainey - Head of Service CAMHS Acute -
01444 472670 Interview date: TBC Person Specification
Qualifications
Degree/Diploma in occupational therapy or Nursing/Social Work Evidence of post qualification study Registration with the HPC, NMC or Social Work England Training in the use of standardised assessment tools Knowledge/Experience
Broad experience of working with young people with a range of mental health problems Experience of multidisciplinary working Experience of supervising staff and students Experience with Looked after and Adopted children Experience of multi-agency work Experience in applying a range of assessment tools and a comprehensive knowledge of clinical approaches Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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