Bank Band 7 CPN/SW/OT, Welwyn - SW1501

We are currently seeking an experienced Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) Clinician, at Band 7 to work via a Bank Contract, based in Welwyn for our CAMHS Services. You will be joining our Temporary Staffing Team within HPFT - Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a 6-month role primarily focused on undertaking the Duty Clinician function, ensuring a responsive and safe service for children and young people accessing the team. The post holder will provide clinical support, manage urgent referrals and enquiries, and maintain service continuity in the absence of allocated staff.

HPFT provides services for service users with mental health, learning disability and children's and adolescent mental health problems. Applicants should have some experience of working in a healthcare setting. HPFT has a range of healthcare settings across the County and therefore access to a car would be beneficial unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving. All applicants need to hold a valid Professional Registration and can evidence this.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake the Duty Clinician role, responding to urgent referrals, queries, and requests for support from children, young people, families, carers and professionals.
• To provide timely triage, risk assessment and clinical decision-making for children and young people presenting with emotional, behavioural, psychological or mental health difficulties.
• To manage and respond to welfare calls and wellbeing checks, ensuring appropriate follow-up and escalation where concerns are identified.
• To maintain contact with children, young people and families when their allocated clinician is unavailable, ensuring continuity of care and effective communication.
• To undertake telephone, virtual or face-to-face contacts with children, young people, carers and professionals as required to support safe and effective service delivery.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. Feedback from our staff about working for the Trust is very positive and, in the NHS national staff survey, we regularly see a high percentage of staff saying their role makes a difference to our service users and that they would recommend the Trust as a place to work. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.

Job responsibilities

• Assess risk and implement appropriate risk management plans, taking account of individual, family and environmental factors.
• Provide consultation and advice to colleagues, professionals and partner agencies regarding the mental health needs of children and young people.
• Work as an active member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to service delivery in line with Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) principles and evidence-based practice.
• Carry out assessments and brief interventions where appropriate, supporting immediate clinical needs and facilitating access to ongoing care.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team and external agencies to ensure coordinated care and effective communication.
• Act as a role model in the delivery of care, maintaining professional standards and upholding public confidence in the service.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

• Essential: Qualification in one of the following and current full professional registration as relevant to the specific profession: Diploma/BSc/MSc in Occupational Therapy OR BA, BSc, MA, MSc, DipSW, CQSW in Social Work OR BSc/DipHE/MSc Mental Health Nursing.
• Desirable: Knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• Essential: Post qualification experience in a CYPMHS team or related area, or several years experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems and knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, and inter-agency collaboration.
• Desirable: Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY

• Essential: Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge and ability to positively manage change including the ability to initiate service developments or be involved in service planning.
• Hold a current driving licence and have access to a car insured for business use (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving).

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.