Senior Specialist Practitioner / Clinical Nurse Specialist - CAMHS

at  Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The post holders will promote and develop clinical excellence within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment and CAMHS Liaison teams to enhance the mental and emotional well-being of children and young people within Nottinghamshire through sound evidence-based approaches. This role will support the delivery of high quality and safe patient-centred care, by working as a senior member of the team, both supporting with and actively working with the most complex cases on the team caseload. You will be required to work closely with the Clinical and Operational Leads for the team to ensure quality and excellence in service provision. A key element of the role will be to support the development and sustaining of a positive working culture within the team and the broader service to support clinicians in feeling valued, listened to, supported and provided with clinical learning opportunities.
There will be an expectation for you to carry out audits as required in order to evaluate quality of care provision and to formulate improvement plans as needed. A working knowledge of risk assessment, safeguarding procedures, experience of working with the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act is essential. Experience of working with young people experiencing mental health difficulties is essential. As a Senior Specialist CAMHS Liaison Practitioner, you will work as part of an MDT to assess, formulate and support young people and their families when they attend hospital and require access to mental health support.
Practitioners will then offer targeted follow up interventions in a range of therapeutic modalities and training will be provided to help staff continue to build their careers. As a Band 7 you will help other practitioners, both within the CAMHS Team and the acute hospitals to risk assess, formulate and work collaboratively to provide sensitive and supportive time critical input. As a Senior Practitioner in CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment, you will be working in a team to cover the urgent and emergency mental health needs of young people and their families across Nottingham City and County. The role will entail leading in clinical discussions and formulations within the team and with other professionals both in and outside of CAMHS.
Benefits of the role: Flexible hours of work, with the opportunity to self roster Options to job plan between undertaking assessments, follows ups and focussing on therapy specific work to allow balance to the role and enable Practitioners to build and maintain their therapeutic skills. Close support from the Clinical Leads and Operational Lead, who will take overall responsibility for leadership, allowing this role to focus on the delivery of therapeutic interventions. Training opportunities are available, including CBT, NVR and DBT. We recognise that staff wellbeing is paramount when working in such demanding clinical areas.
We provide 6 weekly managerial supervision, MDT Forums, Case Formulation, Group Reflective Supervision and mandate monthly clinical supervision. We are a friendly and ambitious team and welcome new members to our growing team. Essential for the role: You must be an RMN, RNLD, Allied Health Professional or Registered Social Worker and hold current registration, have considerable experience of working with young people and/or with acute mental health problems in an acute, crisis or liaison setting. Candidates should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and good IT skills.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010. To discuss this role please feel free to contact the team or arrange an insight visit: 0115 8440560 Sarah Bramley: Clinical Team Lead CAMHS Liaison Helena Marren: Clinical Team Lead CAMHS Liaison Mollie King: Clinical Team Lead CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatmen

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