Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
The Liverpool MHST team at Alder Hey are looking to recruit a permanent B7 Team Lead to join our community Mental Health Support Team.
The successful candidate will be experienced in undertaking appropriate mental health assessment of children and young people referred to MHST and provide evidence-based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need. Further providing support, advice and consultation to families, carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person.
They must be able to demonstrate a positive attitude which encompasses our Trust Values of Excellence, Innovation, Openness, Respect and Together. If you are enthusiastic and confident with a friendly and outgoing manner, and a focus on providing the best possible service to children, young people and their families/carers we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake appropriate mental health assessment of children and young people referred to CAMHS, and provide a range of appropriate, evidence-based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need. The post holder will provide support, advice and consultation to families, carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person.
Job responsibilities
* Provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the service group
* Develop, implement and review a range of evidenced based treatment plans informed by clinical assessment and the specific needs of the individual within their wider social context
* Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children/young people
* Provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professional groups
* Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to external agencies regarding appropriate risk
* Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA
* Effectively communicate with families and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person
* Actively record all clinical outcomes.
Person Specification
Skills
* Must demonstrate strong organisational skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Must demonstrate ability to autonomously manage own workload balance
Personal Attributes
* Must demonstrate a commitment to the overall vision of the development of the professional group of CAMHS Workers.
* Must demonstrate utilisation of professional development planning in own career progression.
* Must show enthusiasm and appreciation for multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
* Must demonstrate a professional manner.
* Must demonstrate a high level of communication skills commensurate with the nature of clinical and professional contacts required of the post.
* Works within professional ethics and Trust policies
* Accountable for own professional actions
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Education and Training
* Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN/RLD), Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy - with evidence of relevant professional registration
* Alternatively a recognised degree level broad based health & social care qualification which will require completion of The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Knowledge Skills and Attributes
* Plus training in a therapeutic modality to an accreditable level with registration (where registration is applicable)
* Post qualification study in chosen mental health field
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in other fields of child and adolescent mental health, research methodology, staff training
Experience
* Experience of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
* Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
* Working collaboratively with other agencies in a variety of venues
* Must be experienced in providing risk assessment of self-harming behaviour
* Must be experienced in analysing presenting problems and able to demonstrate ability to work autonomously utilising a range of therapeutic perspectives and modalities, depending on the needs of the client.
* Must be experienced in and able to demonstrate ability to provide case management supervision for lower banded team members, students and other service
* Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse
* Experience of teaching, training or supervision
* Experience of the application of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions in different cultural contexts
* Experience of working with children and young people in a range of clinical settings
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
* Must demonstrate knowledge of the evidence base in their practice
* Must demonstrate understanding of child development and psychosocial influences
* Must demonstrate a working understanding of systemic, psychodynamic and cognitive theories along with recognition of when each approach is appropriate
* Must demonstrate knowledge of audit and research methodology
* Must demonstrate an understanding of current government initiatives underpinning service developments
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, additional disabilities)
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised therapies/interventions
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of child and adolescent mental health
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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Alder Hey - based at Liverpool Innovation Park
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