Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and dynamic clinician to join our CAMHS ReACH Team (Crisis Team) as a Lead Clinician.

This is a fixed term role of 12 months.

This is a really exciting opportunity for a senior mental health professional, who is passionate about delivering high-quality crisis care whilst supporting and developing a multi-disciplinary team.

The role is a combination of clinical leadership and direct clinical work, you would hold a small clinical caseload ensuring to remain connected to the frontline practice whilst providing leadership, supervision and clinical oversight across the service.

As a Lead Clinician, you will play a key role in ensuring that children, young people and families are experiencing a timely and effective service. You will be working closely with the Team Manager and wider leadership team to maintain high clinical standards, promote continuous improvement and support staff to deliver outstanding care.

You will also provide expert clinical advice, support decision making around risk and crisis management, and help shape service development. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will manage a small caseload of young people with complex presentations, offering assessment, intervention and liaison where required.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership within the team
• Hold a small complex clinical caseload
• Offer clinical supervision, mentoring and supporting members of the MDT
• Provide expert advice on assessment, formulation, risk management and crisis intervention
• Support the Team Manager with team delivery and development. Including quality improvements and decision making
• Promote evidence-based practice and ensure high standards of clinical governance
• Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement initiatives
• Develop strong partnerships with other senior leaders in the team
• Support staff well-being, professional development and positive team culture

Location and working pattern
The service is based at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield and you would be expected to be in base during your shifts. The service works 7 days a week, 8am-8pm and you would work on a shift basis.

If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with Jen Wilson.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

While this role meets the eligibility requirements for Skilled Worker sponsorship, due to the short-term nature of the contract, the Trust will not be offering sponsorship for this post.

We welcome applications from individuals who already have the right to work in the UK or are on a visa route that permits employment without sponsorship. Such applications will be considered alongside all others.

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 are accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we are 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 expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Pay and details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Job responsibilities
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 agencies/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.

• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility in accordance with the Trust Policies and procedures
• Highly developed skills in assessing the needs of children and their carers, planning interventions from assessment information, and clear documentation and sharing of information with families and relevant professionals
• Highly specialist initial assessments of young people following acts of serious self-harm and attempted suicide in line with evidence based practice
• Highly specialised risk assessments following referral for urgent mental health or psychiatric assessment, and planning relevant interventions
• Intensive interventions with young people and their families, including group and individual work and systemic family interventions
• Therapeutic care to emotionally demanding clients in highly emotive situations
• Developing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with children and carers in cases of high complexity
• Delivering and devising complex packages of care as part of the multi-disciplinary team
• Taking a lead role in setting guidelines and standards for discharge from Specialist CAMHS to universal services
• Communicating highly complex, sensitive or contentious information with empathy, taking into account confidentiality and consent, including assessing a child's maturity to consent
• Working with children, young people (0-18) and their families, liaising with external agencies such as Education, Social Services and Paediatric Services
• Applying a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work
• Deputising for the team leader in his/her absence
• Applying Trust policies and procedures in instances of aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

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Person specification
Essential experience:

• 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:

• Experience of community settings

Essential skills:

• 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

Essential personal attributes:

• 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 is 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

Essential qualifications:

• 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 professional body

Desirable qualifications:

• Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
• Masters Level qualification
• Formal management/supervisory qualification

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.

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

Contact
For questions about the job, contact: Jen Wilson, jen.wilson@swyt.nhs.uk, 07353102882