Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 7 Advanced Mental Health practitioners to join the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This role aims to work in collaboration with the Clinical Leads to provide quality assessment, formulation and interventions in CORE CAMHS, with skilled liaison with wider CAMHS pathways, partners and Primary Care.

Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
Working with the Clinical Leads to support and develop robust clinical protocols, offering consultation, supervision, training and assisting all clinical staff to provide the best service for families , raising the profile of young people and carers' access to services whilst ensuring best practice.
Supporting screening and triage of new referrals, initial assessment, clinical review, formulation of care planning and care coordination of young people in the community, inpatient and across all CYP pathways.
Leading in complex cases, facilitating multiple pathways, risk assessment and supporting the patient journey through specialist services.
In addition: to participate in clinical audit, clinical documentation, developing SOPS, policies, responding to complaints and improving service thorough service user feedback
To support with CPD Staff Training and supervision to ensure that Staff understand the protocols and Clinical Systems requirements, Mental Health Act legislation and Safeguarding practice
To ensure the continuation of Service User and family Engagement, regarding planning, monitoring and review.
The post holder will need to confidently represent CAMHS service model and criteria, in liaison with partner agencies and wider stakeholders.
The post will hold additional clinical responsibilities and senior on call duties within CAMHS as per individual job plan

About us
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our 'outstanding' rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.
At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to an accredited living wage employer.
We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where are people feel valued and able to thrive.

Job responsibilities
Key Result Areas:
To support the designated teams to meet service objectives, embrace performance monitoring and develop effective reporting mechanisms.
Critically evaluate and interpret evidence based research findings, making informed judgments about their implications for changing/developing services and clinical practice.
To contribute to the development of and implementation of service and performance measures, that links service deliverables to health and patient outcomes.
To be pro-active in developing, partnerships building and cultivating support.
To contribute to the development of shared policies and procedures that actively contributes to seamless services and enables integration across organisational boundaries and between key partners.
Work collaboratively across the health community with Service Managers, Clinical Lead and partners in NHFT and NCC.
To support the facilitation of a strong customer focus and user engagement to ensure regular and timely feedback that supports rapid innovation to improve effectiveness.
To challenge complacency and identify activities that do not achieve demonstrable improvements in patient and health outcomes, gaining staff and team ownership of change.
To respond to complaints in accordance with Trust policy.
To support the embedding of reporting, monitoring and learning from incidents in accordance with Trust Policy.
Comply with standard infection control precautions to prevent or minimise the spread of micro-organisms and communicable diseases to patients, staff and surrounding community.
Ensure that any matters relating to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults are identified and raised with the relevant named lead and dealt with in accordance with Trust policy.
Other:
To represent the service and its interests, as required at local and national events.
To undertake other duties commensurate with this band as and when requested.
To keep updated as to current local and national policy and strategy.
To work with regard to the NHFT policies and procedures at all times.
The post holder will actively contribute to specific health and social care groups relating to the area and scope of responsibility.
Most Challenging part of the role:
Able to act independently, decisively and effectively within areas of responsibility.
Ability to watch and listen to implicit key messages and respond appropriately.
Able to effectively and appropriately deal with criticism and challenging people and situations.
Ability to positively and creatively challenge current thinking in order to assist in the development of new and better policy & operational working practices.
The ability to interpret general policy for teams.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree in relevant field ie; MH nursing, social work

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience
Essential

• Knowledge of a range of mental illnesses in children and young people, and how to work alongside NICE guidance and evidence based practice to intervene effectively.
• Experience of working in a CAMHS setting
• Registration with an appropriate governing body. Eg. NMC, BACP, BABCP, HCPC.
• Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Proven post qualification experience of working in community settings.
• Good knowledge of local children's services.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.