NHS

CAMHS Nurse/Practitioner, Development Post


Pay29,970.00 - 36,483.00 / year
LocationChesterfield/England
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: C9166-24-0629?language=en&page=219&sort=publicationDateDesc

      Job summary

      Are you looking for a new and exciting career working within CAMHS? Come join our innovative team and get the support you need to develop your career, as we offer an exciting opportunity to train at Band 5 with uplift to Band 6 within 12/18 months. These roles would be particularly suitable for newly qualified Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and other Allied Health Professionals

      CAMHS North Derbyshire is looking to appoint committed Band 5 practitioners with a passion for working with children and young people and the ability to work across Chesterfield, North Derbyshire and High Peaks teams.

      Successful candidates will commence on a specific learning pathway, offering training and support in core competencies required to work with moderate to severe presentations. The role will involve a rotation to allow you to experience all specialist areas within CAMHS, providing opportunities, which will include; mental health and risk assessments, initial contact assessments and will require you to hold and manage your own caseload. These roles are based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

      Main duties of the job

      To be able to work flexibly across all areas of the service with an enthusiasm needed to engage a wide range of diverse and complex presentations, managing high emotion and crisis as they occur.

      To be able to manage your own case load, working towards becoming an autonomous practitioner.

      To become confident in developing robust care and safety plans, including individual goals with the children and young people you assess.

      To be able to work face to face, via telephone and video.

      To feel confident in addressing and referring safeguarding concerns in line with Derbyshire's Thresholds of Need policy.

      Be able to contribute in TAF, CIN and CP meetings, compiling reports and making recommendations.

      To ensure that care is of the highest standard and delivered using evidence based interventions, care pathways and Chesterfield Policies and Procedures.

      To present a professional image and promote a positive image of CAMHS, and the Trust to service users, carers and the community as a whole.

      About us

      CAMHS is a friendly and supportive team which consists of a number of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, all skilled in working with children and young people with mental health issues. There are a number of different teams within the service and this post will require you to rotate though all of them.

      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.

      This career opportunity will allow you to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, which we are willing and happy to support through continued professional development.

      Date posted

      30 December 2024

      Pay scheme

      Agenda for change

      Band

      Band 5

      Salary

      £29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum pro rata

      Contract

      Permanent

      Working pattern

      Full-time

      Reference number

      166-FC-6792030

      Job locations

      Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust

      Chesterfield Road

      Chesterfield

      S44 5BL


      Job description

      Job 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.

      Job description

      Job 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

      Essential

      • You must be a Registered Nurse, MH Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with relevant professional registration (or soon to be professionally registered) or have a Psychotherapy Degree - eg CBT/CYPIAPT including full BACP registration.

      Desirable

      • Evidence of continued training and professional development
      • Evidence of training appropriate to child mental health care.

      Experience

      Essential

      • Provision of therapeutic intervention for people with emotional/mental health problems

      Desirable

      • Evidence of clinical supervision experience
      • Experience of working with individuals, families and multi - disciplinary teams.

      Skills

      Essential

      • Able to develop good therapeutic relationships.
      • Skills with working with others within a multi-disciplinary team and under supervision
      • High standard of written and verbal communication
      • Able to communicate well with a variety of people
      • Willingness to be flexible and adaptable
      • Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
      • Ability to work within a team fostering good working relationships
      • Experience of completing holistic assessments including risk assessment

      Desirable

      • Experience with working with children and young people service users, their families and their carers.
      • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
      • Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients

      Personal Attributes

      Essential

      • Demonstrate knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues.

      Desirable

      • Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of effective clinical practice.
      • Knowledge of contemporary policy and legislation relating to mental health and social care
      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • You must be a Registered Nurse, MH Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with relevant professional registration (or soon to be professionally registered) or have a Psychotherapy Degree - eg CBT/CYPIAPT including full BACP registration.

      Desirable

      • Evidence of continued training and professional development
      • Evidence of training appropriate to child mental health care.

      Experience

      Essential

      • Provision of therapeutic intervention for people with emotional/mental health problems

      Desirable

      • Evidence of clinical supervision experience
      • Experience of working with individuals, families and multi - disciplinary teams.

      Skills

      Essential

      • Able to develop good therapeutic relationships.
      • Skills with working with others within a multi-disciplinary team and under supervision
      • High standard of written and verbal communication
      • Able to communicate well with a variety of people
      • Willingness to be flexible and adaptable
      • Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
      • Ability to work within a team fostering good working relationships
      • Experience of completing holistic assessments including risk assessment

      Desirable

      • Experience with working with children and young people service users, their families and their carers.
      • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
      • Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients

      Personal Attributes

      Essential

      • Demonstrate knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues.

      Desirable

      • Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of effective clinical practice.
      • Knowledge of contemporary policy and legislation relating to mental health and social care

      Disclosure and Barring Service Check

      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.

      Certificate of Sponsorship

      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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

      From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

      UK Registration

      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

      Additional information

      Disclosure and Barring Service Check

      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.

      Certificate of Sponsorship

      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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

      From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

      UK Registration

      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust

      Chesterfield Road

      Chesterfield

      S44 5BL


      Employer's website

      https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

      Address

      Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust

      Chesterfield Road

      Chesterfield

      S44 5BL


      Employer's website

      https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  • About the company

      National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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