Wandsworth CAMHS Tier 3 is a multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families presenting to the service with moderate to severe mental health problems and with high-risk profiles.

We are looking for a committed CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider service development initiatives.

Main duties of the job

The role will be to provide a flexible, timely response to young people and their families who require urgent Mental Health assessments, and /or robust risk management. The postholder will have a caseload within the Multi-disciplinary Tier 3 CAMHS Service at Wandsworth T3 CAMHS

The children and young people will be known to Wandsworth CAMHS or may be urgently referred by GP, Schools, or Social Workers. The role facilitates joint working with team consultants and therapists from the tier 3 teams, Children's emergency care team (CEC's), A&E and SLP Children's out of hours service, working with young people deemed at risk.

This role is open to qualified Nurses with the following:

• Qualification as Registered Mental Health Nurse registered with the NMC
• Experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings
• Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
• The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
• The ability to efficiently manage a high-risk caseload
• Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
• The ability to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions

About us

We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, we support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, compressed hours and working from home.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Subsidised car parking - You can park at any of our sites at a reduced rate of £20/month.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Eye examinations
• Looking after your health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car lease scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
• Free gym membership

Job description Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals who are contributing directly to the assessment, formulation and treatment plan of young people.

• To work in close liaison with other childrens services including health, social care services, education and the voluntary sector.

• To formulate assessment and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child or adolescents self-harm mental health needs, using frameworks which take account of an analysis of a complex range of information from multiple sources, and uses methods of intervention based upon evidence of effectiveness across the full range of care settings.

• To manage meetings that routinely involve parents/carers and other professionals, where viewpoints can be different and in conflict.

• To frequently manage complex and emotionally charged meetings with children and families where clients may be hostile, antagonistic or have high expressed emotion.

• To be responsible for managing and prioritizingown workload of children and adolescents involving self-harm

• To provide appropriate therapy aspart of a multi-disciplinary assessment andtreatment plan.

• To be responsible for implementing a range of group work interventions focusing on life skills training, motivational and creative activities, systemic, psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups.

• To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses and adjusting and changing treatment options.

• To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information, for example regarding the experience and effects of anorexia and bulimia on a young persons physical and developmental status.

• To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age appropriate language, being mindful that the information may be unwelcome.

• To be mindful of the needs of children, young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual religious and social backgrounds, and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs.

Person Specification Training & Qualification Essential

• First degree in mental health nursing
• Professional registration with NMC
• Evidence of relevant professional development

Desirable

• Further post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
• An appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training. (e.g. ENB 998 or Practice Teacher Award)
• A postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health

Experience Essential

• Significant post qualification experience
• Significant experience of working with self-harm
• Significant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
• Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups
• Experience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process
• Establishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy

Desirable

• Experience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
• Conducting service evaluations
• Working collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services

Skills & Knowledge Essential

• Knowledge of current child mental health guidance and legislation
• Ability to co-ordinate and deliver a day programme
• Ability to plan and develop local policy and procedure
• Ability to plan and develop local policy and procedure
• Demonstrate cultural awareness and sensitivity to minority and ethnic groups

Desirable

• Database skills

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