Clinical Nurse Specialist

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

An opportunity has a arisen for a Senior CAMHS Nurse to join Bexley CAMHS working with adolescents with complex emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties and their families. You will be a qualified CYP RMN with proven post-qualification experience in community CAMHS with skills and additional training in working therapeutically with children, young people and their families or carers. We are particularly interested to recruit someone who has experience of working with young people at risk of psychiatric admission.
You will join a team which provides a well-established, highly specialist tier 3.5 service for young people in Bexley. You will work with adolescents up to 18 years and their families/carers, with significant and acute mental health difficulties who are at risk of requiring Tier 4 inpatient care. The service offers assertive and intensive multi-disciplinary interventions and as a community alternative to inpatient care. The team uses a mentalization based approach (AMBIT and MBT-A).
The post holder will manage a complex caseload, working as care coordinator within a multi-disciplinary team including: psychiatrists, psychologists, child psychotherapists, nurses, family therapist, occupational therapist and support staff, in close partnership with partner agencies working with young people in Bexley. The service will be provided flexibly and on an outreach basis. You will also provide specialist advice and support to professional colleagues both internal and external to the Trust.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
Key Task and Responsibilities
To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of adolescent clients with a view to promoting the management of the disorder in a community setting.
To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for clients and their families and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
Must hold a current, valid first level registration with the Nurses & Midwifery Council and to be trained or training in a relevant CYP-IAPT intervention.
To lead on developing psycho-education input for children on medication and their families.
To engage therapeutically with clients and their carers in a variety of settings as appropriate to the needs of the client and to be able to assess the risk of working in particular areas.
To be able to plan and facilitate appropriate therapeutic intervention including group work for the specialist client group and their families and carers.
To be able to assess and manage high risk clients and assess the risk to the client and others on an ongoing basis within the role as care co-ordinator
To effectively and appropriately communicate these risks often under difficult, highly charged and emotional circumstances to medical staff, other professionals and families involved in the care of the client.
To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
To contribute to overall service delivery and development as required
To offer joint work and specialist advice within the specialist team and to outside agencies.
To implement appropriate training packages for parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
To provide training and consultations in specialist areas to other professionals within the trust and to outside agencies, e.g. Social Services, voluntary sector.
To ensure that own practice remains within legal, ethical and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from relevant professionals.
To possess IT skills in order to effectively communicate in writing with colleagues, other professionals and families in accordance with trust policies e.g. writing of comprehensive report.
To store statistical data in accordance with trust policies..
To ensure live registration with appropriate professional body, e.g. NMC.
Actively identify personal training needs and participate in training programmes to meet requirements
To demonstrate the ability to make appropriate decisions with regard to the confidentiality of clients and their families taking into considerations the risks to clients, self and the wider public.
To participate in the provision of training and information for other professionals as appropriate in order to promote effective practice in the specialist area
To liaise with other colleagues in CAMHS and participate in different clinical groups in order to share best practice and discuss current and future professional and clinical developments e.g. case review meetings and the CAMHS NEC forum.
To liaise independently and effectively with external partner agencies, co-ordinating meetings and participating case discussions between teams involved in the care of clients .
To liaise closely with the head of profession to promote good, effective and safe practice within the CAMHS nursing establishment

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