Salford CAMHS are looking for passionate, skilled, and ambitious CAMHS practitioners who have extensive clinical experience and are qualified as, or in the process of qualifying as a Non Medical Prescriber. The service provides specialist neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people as well as treatment and support via our medication pathway.
As an NMP and neurodevelopmental practitioner you will need to be experienced working with children and young people who have a diagnosis or are being assessed for neurodevelopmental conditions. You will contribute to the post-diagnostic support needed and offer signposting and consultation and training as appropriate.
The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary CAMH's Team in Salford and work alongside a wide range of colleagues from nursing, speech and language therapy, social work and psychology. They will be joining a warm, dynamic and hardworking team who look after each other and have a range of excellent skills, knowledge, and experience to share with you.
Dependent upon experience and interests the post holder will be supported to develop a job plan which will allow for the development of prescribing skills alongside generic CAMHS assessments, formulation building, and therapeutic interventions. We offer excellent training opportunities and regular supervision.
Main duties of the job
You will:
1. Offer assessment for complex mental health needs and levels of risk, including safeguarding and self-harm.
2. Offer prescribing clinics, involving initiation and titration dependent upon qualifications and experience and alongside colleagues in the multidisciplinary team.
3. Be responsible for delivering evidence-based and medication interventions in line with national guidance and care pathways.
4. Manage your own caseload, providing a range of high-quality care appropriate to the child or young person's needs, which will include mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, and interventions.
5. Provide therapeutic intervention for children, young people, and their families.
6. Offer consultation for schools and partner agencies.
7. Provide advice via an allocated duty slot within the service.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Registration and Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN/RNMH
* Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical Prescribing
* Relevant post-graduate qualification or training in area relevant to service delivery
Desirable
* Qualifications in Psychological Therapies to Diploma or Masters level e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT
* Mentorship course ENB998 or equivalent
* Leadership Qualification
Experience
Essential
* Proven experience of working effectively with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and additional mental health difficulties providing both assessment and intervention
* Substantial experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties, including experience of delivering specialist skills in at least one therapeutic modality
* Extensive experience of case management, including experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
* Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals
* Experience of mentoring and supervision of others
Desirable
* Experience of working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
* Evidence of project management experience
* Delivery of training and consultation
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential
* Ability to carry out and monitor effective ADHD assessments, treatments and therapies including understanding of potential unwanted side effects from medication
* Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions
* Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs
* Highly developed knowledge of evidence-based practice across a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
* Able to foster partnerships and working relationships with other professional networks
* To have the ability to manage own caseload and act as lead practitioner
* Able to demonstrate an understanding, acceptance of and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities, treating every person with respect
Desirable
* Delivery of group work and workshops
* Experience of audit and research
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Salford CAMHS, Pendleton Gateway
1 Broadwalk
Salford
M65FX
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