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NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: CAMHS
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 166-FC-6304368
Site: Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Town: Chesterfield
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
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/Practitioners.
CAMHS 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 and North Derbyshire 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 and Buxton Health Centre.
Main duties of the job
1. 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.
2. To be able to manage your own caseload, working towards becoming an autonomous practitioner.
3. To become confident in developing robust care and safety plans, including individual goals with the children and young people you assess.
4. To be able to work face to face, via telephone and video.
5. To feel confident in addressing and referring safeguarding concerns in line with Derbyshire’s Thresholds of Need policy.
6. Be able to contribute in TAF, CIN and CP meetings, compiling reports and making recommendations.
7. To ensure that care is of the highest standard and delivered using evidence-based interventions, care pathways and Chesterfield Policies and Procedures.
8. 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.
Working for our organisation
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 through 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.
Detailed job description and main 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
* You must be a Registered Nurse, MH Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with relevant professional registration or have a Psychotherapy Degree – eg CBT (BACP).
* Evidence of continued training and professional development.
* Evidence of training appropriate to child mental health care.
Experience
* Provision of therapeutic intervention for people with emotional/mental health problems.
* Evidence of clinical supervision experience.
* Experience of working with individuals, families and multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills
* 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 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
* Demonstrate knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues.
* 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.
Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.
UK Points-based immigration system
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.
It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.
If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.
Communications
Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.
If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.
Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.
This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.
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