An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Halton CAMHS team (child and adolescent mental health services) for an experienced and passionate practitioner to support the mental health of children and young people with ASC / LD. As a specialist practitioner, you will be responsible for leading multi-agency plans to support CYP.
You will deliver therapeutic intervention to meet the needs of CYP and complete appropriate safety plans. As a specialist practitioner, you will be key in developing and supporting local pathways of care and evaluation of services and training to the wider system. You will also offer consultation, which includes working with partner health organisations, CSC, Education, and third sector organisations, which is a very important aspect of our work.
The post holder will be a key member of the CYPMHS in delivering a highly specialised clinical service to Children and Young People and their families and carers with LD/ASC and mental health co-morbidity. They will be integral to ensuring efficient, effective, co-ordinated, and responsive high-quality service and care are delivered. The post holder will also be required to be proactive with audit, research, education, and training to ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within CYPMHS is incorporated into systems and processes.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Main duties of the job
As a specialist practitioner, the post holder will provide a specialised role in the development and implementation of services and care pathways for children and young people with mental health (CYPMH) and Learning Disability / Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide specialist interventions, advice, consultancy, and supervision to both colleagues and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude that respects and values service users and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE.
Job responsibilities
Provide highly specialised clinical advice and support to CYP, families, and carers, including clinical assessment, diagnostic skills, non-medical prescribing where appropriate, and implementation of management and treatment plans. Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area. Work cooperatively and collaboratively with other services/stakeholders to enable service users to be treated in the most appropriate setting. Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision. Ensure that teams work proactively to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to CYP, Families, and Carers with both planned and unplanned care needs. Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment. Participate in the development of caseload management across the mental health and health economy. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role. Act as an advocate and champion for CYP and Families/Carers in various forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behavior. Implement plans for the team, including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence-based clinical decision making. Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the wider healthcare when managing complex and highly complex situations. Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care. Formulate and follow holistic assessments of health needs, develop specialist individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, involving CYP and Families/Carers. Implement and evaluate care delivery for CYP and Families/Carers with identified needs. Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease-specific management, management of long-term conditions, and end-of-life/palliative care. Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
Work with the team leader and service lead to deliver local-based services by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff. Support the team leader to provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested. Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation. Contribute to the development of role and service redesign. Actively participate in policy and service development, authoring protocols as required. Provide induction to the local working environment and policies for new team members and students. Support the team leader with PACE reviews of team members. Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs. Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers. Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contracts and objectives. Participate in audits and research, as required. Participate in individual and group supervision. Support the implementation of mentorship and clinical supervision within the team. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards. Initiate training and development of team members. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery, including maintaining and monitoring clinical competency and standards of record keeping. In conjunction with the team leader and service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery. Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader and service lead. Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the team leader and service lead. Monitor and ensure that the quality of care delivered by the team is evidence-based and supported by best practice through the use of audit, caseload, and clinical supervision. Participate in CYP and Families/Carers satisfaction reporting to improve patient care. Maintain registration in line with professional bodies. Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students. Support the identification of skills deficits within the team and identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement, and development.
Person Specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
* Core professional qualification in registered nurse, social work, or Occupational therapy
* Masters or equivalent level of experience
* Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained)
* Qualification in clinical supervision
EXPERIENCE
Essential
* Experience of specialist mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
* Highly skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* Experience of delivering teaching, training, and supervision
* Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experienced in and the ability to provide case management supervision for CAMHS staff, students, and other service groups/team professionals as required
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
* Advanced knowledge and skills in the complete range of approaches within the special field of work as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.
* Advanced level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
* Experience in providing complex risk assessments
* Must demonstrate the ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
* Ability to work within a culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.
* Advanced knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
* Ability to take full clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care coordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.
VALUES
Essential
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Employer details
Employer name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Halton CAMHS, Thorn Road Clinic
Thorn Road Clinic
Runcorn
WA7 5HQ
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