Hampshire CAMHS Intensive Work Team are offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 6, Intensive CAMHS Specialist to be co-located within Hampshire Children's Services Department to provide a specialist multi disciplinary approach to priority groups including children and young people that may be at risk or becoming a Child in Care, those transitioning to a new setting, and with parents of those where the plan is reunification or those who have had previous children removed.

A core qualification with evidence of continued professional development is essential, please see the Job description and Person Specification for more details.

The post holder will be expected to provide advice, clinical consultancy and training in relation to the mental health needs of children and young people, crisis intervention and home treatment for referred children, young people, and their families as part of a multi-agency approach to meeting the health and social care needs of those who are open to CAMHS and Children's Services.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for child and adolescent mental health assessments and resulting packages of evidenced based intervention, including group work in collaboration with Children's Services.

To be responsible for ensuring professional consultation and signposting.

To organise and participate in training and learning sessions to all colleagues within the Children's Service to maintain high standards of clinical practice.

To participate in the development of a high quality, responsive, and accessible service for children, young people, families, and carers.

To provide clinical consultancy, support, and learning opportunities to staff caring for children and adolescents who are seen to be at risk to themselves and/or others.

To have excellent communication skills including tact and persuasiveness skills.

To be able to give, receive and record succinctly highly sensitive and complex information regarding children and young people's life experience or staff welfare issues.

To be highly skilled in overcoming barriers to communication that can arise when addressing contentious issues such as communicating with parents about the impact of maltreatment on young children's social and emotional development.

To have knowledge of the impact complex and developmental trauma on child development and mental health and the maltreatment in early infancy on attachment patterns and subsequent social, emotional, and cognitive development.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.

The transformation will happen in stages Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health.
• *Registered Professional Qualification
• *Training in the use of standardised assessment tools

Experience

Essential

• *Experience of working with clients with a range of mental health problems.
• *Experience of both group and individual work.
• *Experience of multidisciplinary working.
• *Experience as a Care Coordinator
• *Experience with Looked after/Adopted children.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• *Able to communicate complex information to service users, carers, and colleagues.
• *Develop partnership working with individuals, groups, communities, and agencies.
• *Ability to prioritise.
• *Ability to carry out comprehensive assessments and make decisions about ways to positively manage risk.
• *Ability to devise creative and effective care/support for young people.
• *Ability to communicate effectively with clients and professionals, both orally and in writing.
• *Ability to work under pressure, planning own
• Workload.
• *Effective time management skills.
• *An understanding of the tenets of the Childrens Act, Care Programme Approach and National Service Frameworks, and other relevant health and social care legislation relating to Children and Young People.
• *A knowledge of the current developments within mental health, policy practice and service, and those affecting the provision of services for Children and Young People.
• IT skills:
• *Ability to use Trust IT systems including e-mail and electronic clinical records.
• Approach/Values:
• *Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust.
• *Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role.
• *Team working
• *Ability to travel across sites.
• *Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Osborn Centre

Osborn Road

Fareham

Hampshire

PO16 7ES

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348-SS-5707