NHS AFC: Band 6
Main area: SET CAMHS Crisis Team
Grade: NHS AFC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Day Shift 8a.m to 8p.m. Night shift 8p.m to 8am on shift rota Monday - Sunday)
Job ref: 395-EC036-25
Site: Provide Town Colchester
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/02/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
This post is an exciting opportunity for those who wish to be part of an innovative developing service. The SET CAMHS Crisis and Therapeutic Home Treatment Team offer assessment and interventions to those young people presenting with mental deterioration or crisis presentations. As a service, we now work within the Thrive model and implement collaborative care plans with our community services and community SET CAMHS team to promote positive outcomes for vulnerable young people and their families. There are opportunities for joint working and coordinating alongside the community-based teams.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will benefit from being part of a friendly, supportive, dynamic and developing service based within Essex. The successful candidate will work alongside highly motivated colleagues and have access to effective supervision, both individually and in group formats, and be supported with CPD requirements through relevant training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are particularly looking for clinicians who can meet the following criteria:
* Skilled in assessment, formulation, management and delivery of therapy to people experiencing acute mental health crisis in both community and hospital settings.
* Experienced in assessing and managing clinical risk, drawing on dynamic case formulation skills and working collaboratively with service users to agree their treatment and safety plans.
* Possess a current Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapist, Counselling, Psychotherapy or equivalent professional qualification and be skilled and experienced in the delivery of evidence-based approaches to therapy (including DBT/CBT/Systemic & Creative therapies).
* Having knowledge, understanding and experience of working with the legal frameworks which relate to the care and treatment of children and young people, with particular reference to Children Act 1989, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended in 2007).
* Flexibility to work within a service which operates 7 days a week 365 days per year which includes unsociable hours.
* The candidate will possess the ability to work independently as well as being a collaborative and supportive member of the Multidisciplinary Team.
* Are flexible in practice and approach and able to carry out high quality Mental Health and Risk Assessments and deliver talking therapy and aforementioned evidence-based informed interventions in a variety of settings, including young people’s homes, colleges, schools, community settings and A&Es.
* Able to formulate specific highly specialist care and treatment plans, providing skilled and specialist interventions and care to young people with complex mental health problems.
Qualifications and Experience
This post is open to Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMN's), Occupational Therapists (OT), Social Workers, Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychological Therapists (BABCP, HCPC). Any additional qualifications in therapeutic approaches such as DBT, EMDR, CBT, MBT, NVR, SFT would also be desirable.
Person specification
* Experience of mental health in hospital and community settings.
* Experience in formulating care and treatment plans.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
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