Main area CAMHS- Barnet Enhanced Support Team - Advanced Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week Job ref 306-BEH-2598
Employer: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hollyoak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital
Town: Edgware
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum including HCAS pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/02/2025 23:59
CAMHS- Barnet Enhanced Support Team - Advanced Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
The post holder will be part of the Barnet Enhanced Support team (BEST) in Barnet CAMHS for young people and their families. This is a community based post offering outreach work to families with specific emphasis on children and young people with acute and complex mental health problems and who present with high risk to themselves and/or others. Clinic appointments and outreach work will comprise the main part of the work.
The team is a specialist CAMHS team working with the more high risk and challenging adolescents (13-18) from across the borough of Barnet. This team has a particular focus on deliberate self harm, those from complex families who may have suffered abuse or trauma, hard to engage adolescents, and those struggling to manage the transition to adulthood.
The post holder will be an active member of the integrated team providing follow up for young people who have attended local A&E departments with a mental health concern, and short to medium term crisis and outreach support to families and individuals in order to contain risk and prevent need for tier 4 intervention. There is the expectation of case management within the role, particularly for the young people who remain in the team on a longer term basis due to chronic and/or high risk presentations and complexity.
Main duties of the job
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
1. To participate in CAMHS’s rapid response to urgent cases including assessment, outreach work, monitoring of mental state and medication side effects, and liaising closely with clinicians involved with the case. To be able to utilise skills flexibly so that interventions can be planned and implemented for clients at home and in other settings.
2. To independently and/or jointly carry out assessments of the mental health needs of children and young people within a therapeutic framework and to contribute fully to the care planning process.
3. To provide a high standard of care for people in the care group in keeping with the philosophy and operational policies for the Outreach Team and in addition to the Trust’s policies, practice and procedures.
4. To conduct accurate risk assessments and management plans, involving the service user, carer, and any other individuals relevant to the care of the service user, and to ensure that this is well documented (on RiO). All this in conjunction with other team members where appropriate.
5. Shorter term crisis support, as well as longer term case management for high risk young people presenting with serious mental illness and associated risk.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme.
Excellent internal staff network.
The postholder will be aligned with our Values:
1. We Are Kind
2. We Are Respectful
3. We Work Together
4. We Keep Things Simple
5. We Empower
6. We Are Proudly Diverse
To meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post is for one of the crisis practitioners in the Barnet Enhanced Support team. This is a team with strong therapeutic input working with high risk young people presenting with serious mental illness and significant risk profiles. The role will be providing short term crisis support and stabilisation work, longer term case management and contributing to the establishment of our therapeutic groups.
There is a strong Multi-disciplinary approach in the team, and the post holder will be supported by the team and manager to undertake this often challenging work. The post holder should feel confident to manage cases, work closely with other partnership agencies, and use their professional judgement and initiative.
Please see Job Description for detailed responsibilities.
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
* Qualification at degree level or equivalent and registration with relevant professional body with a core profession (clinical/counselling psychology, psychotherapy, systemic family psychotherapy, social work, nursing, occupational therapy). Relevant training or qualification in child and adolescent mental health. Relevant training on safeguarding and child protection.
* Training in one of the main therapeutic modalities.
EXPERIENCE
* Experience of clinical and risk assessment and treatment of children and young people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Previous experience of working in CAMHS, with proven track record of working with children, young people and their families offering assessment and stabilisation during periods of high risk. Experience of case load management. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of teaching colleagues of other disciplines. Experience of working in a culturally diverse area. Experience of working in an adolescent in-patient setting.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* Evidence of well developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS. Working knowledge in at least one model of therapeutic work (e.g. Systemic, CBT, SFT, Psychodynamic). Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Teaching skills in clinical settings. Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks. Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown. Ability to manage the multiple demands in a complex clinical environment. Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS. Knowledge of legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies. Good computer skills and knowledge of patient management systems. Accurate record keeping. Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Experience in family therapy processes. Experience in using CBT techniques. Experience in setting up and facilitating groups. Knowledge of development in inter-agency partnership. Specific knowledge of current issues for Adolescent mental health.
OTHER
* Essential car driver. Willingness to drive for work purposes. Commitment to equal opportunities. Self motivated, assertive and flexible. Ability to be mobile and accessible to the community.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents e.g., Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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