We are excited to advertise a Lead Clinician post within Wakefield CAMHS Core Team! We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, forward-thinking clinician to work as part of our team.
The service is keen to recruit an experienced Clinician to lead the current clinical work within our Core Team, alongside developing the clinical skills of the service. The team is multi-disciplinary and provides assessment and interventions for children and young people experiencing moderate to severe complex emotional, behavioural, and psychological issues resulting in mental health problems.
Ideally, candidates will have extensive experience working within the field of children's mental health in a health care setting. They should be able to demonstrate core knowledge and skills in mental health assessment, formulation, care planning, and treatment.
You will work alongside the Team Manager and other lead clinicians in the service, having the opportunity to be at the forefront of a developing service, and play a key role in shaping how services are provided to children, young people, and families.
Providing Clinical Leadership through the provision of clinical supervision and caseload management supervision is essential.
The lead clinician will be required to work flexibly to support the needs of the service. Extensive clinical knowledge and relevant experience of assessing and managing risk within a mental health and/or social care setting is essential.
Main duties of the job
1. Leadership role within the team, working alongside the Team Manager.
2. A small clinical, complex caseload.
3. Supporting Practitioners in the team with complex cases, offering supervision, clinical advice, and safeguarding support.
4. Offering clinical supervision.
5. Delivering training/new processes to the service/team.
6. Ensuring a governance overview in the team.
7. Work closely with other teams to renew/develop pathways and processes.
8. Take a lead in coordinating complex cases.
9. Take on additional roles, such as a service representative (e.g., Suicide Prevention), which will involve meetings with the relevant agencies and sharing learning with the service.
10. Sharing learning from incidents in the service.
11. Caseload reviews.
12. Cover for the Team Manager when on leave.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health, and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities; we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families, and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups; we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical, and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people, and their families.
To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agency professionals.
To provide supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed for the team leader.
To promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Commitment to multi-agency approach/working.
* Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
* Calm, confident, innovative, creative, and assertive.
* Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure/crisis situations.
* Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
* Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
* Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
* To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members.
* A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day are essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
* To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent, and respectful.
Physical Attributes
Essential
* Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Special Knowledge/Skills
Essential
* Excellent verbal and communication skills.
* Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner.
* Excellent negotiation skills and problem-solving skills.
* Customer service orientation.
* Excellent record-keeping and report-writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
* IT skills.
Qualifications
Essential
* Relevant professional qualification, e.g., nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
* Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g., LD, LAC, eating disorder.
* Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
* A teaching and assessing qualification.
* Membership of a professional body.
Desirable
* Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g., CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
* Masters Level qualification.
* Formal management/supervisory qualification.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of delivering training to others.
* Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements.
* Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people, and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting.
* Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
* Multidisciplinary team working.
* Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
* Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health, and safeguarding.
* Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
* Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
* Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.
Desirable
* Experience of community settings.
Employer details
Employer name
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Airedale Health Centre
The Square
Castleford
West Yorkshire
WF10 3JJ
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