If you are a Registered Nurse ( Child/Paediatric/Learning Disability /Mental Health /Adult) and have experience working with children and young people in a mental Health setting and are committed to providing outstanding care - NORTH TYNESIDE SPECIALIST CAMHS NEEDS YOU.
North Tyneside CAMHS is a specialist Mental Health Service working with children and young people birth to 18 years of age with moderate and enduring mental health problems.
The Post holder will work into the Access Team within Specialist CAMHS. Access is the first point of contact for Children into Specialist CAMHS. The Team undertake assessments, Risk assessments and support formulations to agree most appropriate interventions for children and young people. The Team offer interventions, guided self help and link children and young people into other services /supports to meet their needs. Access is a fast paced innovative developing model of practice. As a Band 7 in the Team your role would include supporting the growth and development of the Model. You would play in key role in the Leadership of the Team working closely with other senior colleagues.
The post holder will deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children and young people with moderate and enduring mental health difficulties.
The duties of the post will include contributing to specialist assessment to help those around the child make sense of their difficulties (all aspects of assessment, including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, learning, systemic factors, the role of trauma).
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application
To formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy for individual children, their families or carers who are referred within a specific locality of the North Tyneside area.
To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individual children, their families or carers.
To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To provide specialist advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non CAMHS colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Sunday 3 Nov 2024
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