CAMHS Urgent Care Practitioner

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Main area: Integrated Care

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working (37.5 hours per week, 7 day per week rota)

Job ref: 166-FC-6790218

Site: Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Town: Calow

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 08:00

Do you want to be part of a forward-thinking, well-respected, fast-moving, multi-disciplinary young person’s Urgent Care Team? Can you deliver compassionate care to those young people that present in mental health crisis? We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our CAMHS Urgent Care Team in North Derbyshire. The Team is a well-established part of the wider CAMHS Service and is a supportive, well-organised team with a culture of friendly, multi-disciplinary work based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

You will have experience of direct work with children and young people who have mental health problems and you will be adept at undertaking mental health assessments and interventions. You will have the necessary knowledge in assessing risk and drawing up robust safety plans. You will have a core professional qualification e.g., Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or HCPC registered AHP.

Main duties of the job:

• The Urgent Care Team provides a rapid response service to children and young people and families who are presenting with acute mental health or emotional disturbance to a degree where the risk they pose indicates that an inpatient admission may be required.
• You will offer mental health and risk assessment, formulation and brief intervention with those young people under 18 who are presenting with urgent mental health needs.
• The team operates between the hours of 08 am-11 pm over seven days with plans to develop 24-hour on-call cover (NHS Agenda for change pay enhancements apply).

Working for our organisation:

The team has well-established links with Paediatrics, our ED Department, and Children’s Social Care, Education and other partner agencies across North Derbyshire. Whilst you care for our young people and families, in turn we recognise the importance of caring for you – clinical supervision, career & personal development and health & wellbeing support are all core to our service. If you’re keen to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, come and talk to us about how we could support that.

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: RN or Registered Social Worker or registered OT; Degree or Diploma qualification in relevant profession as above; Evidence of continuing professional development; Post qualification courses in child care practice or therapeutic work with children and families.
• Skills and Knowledge: Evidence of continuing professional development; Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach and Risk Assessment; Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children’s Services and mental health; Good understanding of child and adolescent development; Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues' anxieties; Highly developed communication skills including the ability to de-escalate situations involving high expressed emotion; Knowledge and application of standardised assessments and outcome measures; Keyboard skills and use of IT packages; Knowledge of and skills in using a variety of approaches and methods as required to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations; Skills in receiving and providing supervision.
• Experience: Experience of assessing and managing mental health risk; Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental ill health; Experience of using evidence-based practice; Experience of working in CAMHS; Experience of the application of psychological therapies in home/community environments; Experience of teaching and training; Experience of service evaluation and audit.
• Personal Attributes: Highly motivated & able to engage with patients & carers to improve outcomes; Qualities essential to clinical practices e.g., respect, genuineness and personal integrity; A car driver with full current driving licence and own transport. For disabled applicants suitable alternative arrangements may be agreed if necessary; Be prepared to work as a lone worker in community settings; Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.
• Other factors: Confident at all levels of communication and interaction; Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions; Demonstrates Trust Values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement.

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.

UK Points-based immigration system:

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications:

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form. If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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