An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team. As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client-centered care to children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
Applications will also be considered for Band 5 practitioners who wish to develop their skills as part of professional development.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultation, and supervision to both colleagues and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check with children's and adult's barred list.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude that respects and values service users and their carers. They will embrace the core values of the organization and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE, recognizing the need to:
1. Promote safe practices
2. Value the aims of service users
3. Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
4. Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
5. Value social inclusion
The team promotes the Thrive model of service delivery and is continually developing innovative and creative practice, so the successful candidate will share our enthusiasm and hard-working approach.
Job responsibilities
CLINICAL
1. To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work depending on clinical competence and experience.
2. To undertake assessments, treatment, and consultation work based on a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
3. To provide direct therapeutic interventions, including assessments, formulation, and therapeutic input into children, young people, and families referred to the service.
4. Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
5. To work sensitively with children and young people from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
6. To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young Peoples services.
7. To participate directly in the team's duty rotas.
8. To exercise responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
9. To deliver care coordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning, and risk management processes are maintained.
10. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in cooperation with the child, young person, and carers.
11. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the area of specialist knowledge.
12. To work jointly with other team members to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families.
13. To provide consultation, advice, and guidance to junior colleagues.
14. To undertake risk management for all children, including protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
15. Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues.
16. Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records.
17. To engage with routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate.
18. To work collaboratively with children, young people, and their families.
COMMUNICATION
1. To communicate in a skilled manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.
2. Attend Child Protection Case conferences.
3. Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information.
4. Communicate effectively with children, young people, and their carers.
5. Organize and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews.
6. Elicit highly sensitive information using appropriate communication skills.
7. Work as part of an integrated multi-professional team.
8. Provide written reports detailing the progress of mental health interventions.
TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
1. Participate in regular supervision and engage in reflective practice.
2. To provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills.
3. To contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines.
4. Work collaboratively with partner agencies.
5. Maintain registration/accreditation requirements.
6. Be accountable for own clinical practice and professional behavior.
MANAGEMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
1. Identify priorities within the service and advise managers on resource levels.
2. Contribute to evidence-based practice through audits and evaluations.
3. Contribute to recruitment processes.
4. Support the workload of colleagues.
5. Contribute to service developments.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the evidence base in relation to mental health interventions and participate in appropriate audits and quality assurance programs.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. To receive and engage in regular clinical supervision.
2. To contribute to the development of the highest professional standards of practice.
3. To maintain professional body registration.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Core Profession Social Work or Nurse with up-to-date Professional Registration.
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of working with CAMHS.
* Experience of mentorship and supervision.
* Experience of Care Planning process.
* Experience in a multi-agency framework.
* Experience in positive leadership of a team.
* Knowledge of the Recovery Model and Mental Health Act (1983).
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change-oriented
Skills
* Demonstrate sound leadership qualities.
* Ability to communicate in a variety of settings.
* Able to maintain accurate clinical records.
* Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, necessitating a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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