CAMHS Mental Health Nurse - Incentives Apply

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Brighton & Hove Community CAMHS - BAND 6 - Community Mental Health Nurse Specialist
This is an exciting opportunity for a Community Mental Health Nurse Specialist to join an enthusiastic CAMHS team in Brighton & Hove
The post is 37.5 hours per week.
This post offers a incentive, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £4000 (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions).
The successful applicant will be working with young people and their families who have been referred into CAMHS via Brighton & Hove Wellbeing Service. The post will involve triaging, and undertaking initial assessments and developing risk and care plans with young people.
The post holder will be required to undertake initial assessments for children and young people referred into the service, ensuring safeguarding, risk management and care planning are implemented to the highest standard and at all times that the service offers effective patient-centred care. You will be expected to hold a diverse case load of young people with complex emotional needs which requires significant attention to detail particularly around risk management in the community, thus co-ordinating and working with external agencies such as social care and education etc.
You will be supported by more senior members of the team and offered supervision and reflective practice. You will also have the opportunity to co-facilitate groups and treatment alongside multidisciplinary team colleagues to offer evidenced based care.
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
We are passionate about providing effective specialist mental health interventions for children and young people.

KEY STAFF SURVEY RESULTS INCLUDE:

70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
We manage some very complex cases but the team works well and provides lots of support and supervision and team members never feel they are working in isolation even during current remote working.
We believe this is a very exciting opportunity to gain and build on experience in CAMHS and we would welcome your interest in this post.
See the attached ‘Partnership Perks’ document for details about our benefits package.
Professional Functions
To develop & maintain specialist clinical mental health nursing skills and expertise in the assessment of young people referred to CAMHS via SPOA
To offer advice on management of patients with mental health issues and physical symptoms.
To ensure assessment, care and support of each client is appropriate to individual needs.
To feed back outcome of assessment to the young person, family and referrer and collaboratively agree care and safety plans.
To ensure that children and young people requiring further assessment and help are referred on appropriately.
To provide consultation to other professionals regarding mental health issues in relation to young people and their families
To know how to access appropriate services and develop effective networks and channels of communications.
To adhere to relevant code of Professional Conduct.
To attend case conferences & meetings as relevant to the job description.
Work in accordance with Sussex Partnership Foundation NHS and East Sussex Hospital trusts’ policies, guidelines and protocols.
Managerial
To ensure care plans and risk plans are timely, collaborative and high quality
To participate in individual professional supervision
Educational
To identify one’s own training needs through a Personal Development Plan (PDP). Access relevant courses/conferences nationally or locally as identified on P.D.P./Appraisal
To demonstrate awareness of research and its applications to practice.
To participate in monthly clinical supervision and weekly team supervision.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details

Please refer the Job description for details