Job summary
This post is based in Tameside CAMHS

Main duties of the job
Our post-holders will provide highly specialist advice and consultation to social workers and other professionals around the needs of children in care; will facilitate direct and indirect assessments and therapeutic interventions with cared for children and their parents or carers (including foster carers and family and friends carers), support the development and delivery of training and reflective practice and facilitate the clinical supervision of other professionals to undertake therapeutic interventions.

About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post.

Benefits and opportunities

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job description
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical To ensure high quality and specialist psychological assessment of the children and families involved in the service...
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Person Specification
Education/qualifications

• Essential: Registered Nurse-Mental Health with NMC registration/social worker with SW registration
• Desirable: Accredited membership of an appropriate psychological therapy professional body, Additional further training in the use of children's attachment assessment tools, Training in specialist therapeutic work with children, young people and families e.g. DBT, CBT, EMDR, DDP, FT, theraplay

Experience

• Essential: Substantial experience of working within a health delivered child and adolescent mental health outpatient/community service, Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Desirable: Experience of cross-sector working e.g. within CAMHS and childrens social care, Experience of working with cared for children, Experience of working in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts, Experience of consultation, Experience of clinically supervising / or line managing others

Knowledge

• Essential: Highly developed knowledge of mental health issues in young people and of issues relevant for cared for children and their families, Knowledge of relevant legislation and national policies in relation to children and young people, Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
• Desirable: Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability, Evidence of post qualification training courses/certificates.

Work related circumstances

• Essential: Ability to work unsocial hours and weekends, Use of car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs, Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trusts Equal Opportunities and equality and diversity policies, Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS

Skills and abilities

• Essential: Substantial experience of working within a health delivered child and adolescent mental health outpatient/community service, Good communication skills, Experience of using full clinical responsibility for the psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner, Ability to perform complex psychological assessments, Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs and formulation, Ability to develop a range of therapeutic activities across a range of settings, Ability to manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs, Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere, Ability to act in consultation/supervision/training capacity with professionals, Ability to develop liaison /links and familiarity with other professional networks, Ability to prioritise key tasks and targets for intervention.
• Desirable: Ability to evaluate service initiatives for effectiveness / outcome, Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries, Ability to keep accurate data for audit/evaluation, Ability to work strategically to develop the CAMHS cared for childrens service, Ability to develop and audit the effectiveness of protocols.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.