Are you a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a passion for working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma and have complex needs?

Are you motivated by a role where you can make a huge difference to the lives of young people in a mental health crisis in the community?

If so, our senior practitioner post in CAMHS Urgent Help Service is for you!

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a knowledgeable, dynamic mental health practitioner. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing a high-quality crisis care to our young people.

Main duties of the job

Your main duties will involve:

To provide comprehensive crisis assessment of mental health specific to needs of service area.To manage a small caseload of clients in crisis with complex mental health needs and undertake case management/lead professional/ CPA as needed.To be able to communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client.

To have experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in clinical area.

To take a lead on clinical matters and policy development relating to clinical practice.To provide clinical leadership.To be part of recruitment and selection process of different staff professionals who make up our clinical team.To be aware of care group and Trust policies and protocols within the Chyps Directorate.To develop and participate in the delivery of a supervision structure for junior colleagues.Provide clinical supervision to team members to help maintain clinical standards and team wellbeing.

This is a full time (1 WTE) post.

About us

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Job description

Job responsibilities

In order to be a successful Senior Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be:

- Registered with the NMC/HCPC/SW England

- Experienced in risk management

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role

- Adaptable, organised, compassionate and a team player

- Experienced working within a mental health setting

It would also be advantageous if you are:

- Experienced working in CAMHS (Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services) and/or inpatient settings, experience with developmental trauma, neuro-disability and/or forensic CAMHS.

- A nurse prescriber qualification would also be desirable

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.

The Urgent Help Service supports children and young people who are experiencing mental health conditions and difficulties that are putting themselves or others at risk, for example if they are having psychotic symptoms or showing signs of wanting to take their own life.

The service works closely with the young person, their family/carers to develop a care plan, which sets out their goals and what treatments they have agreed together to try. The team regularly reviews progress to make sure that the treatment is working and helping them to get back on track. If things are not improving they will look at other ways they may be able to help.

Urgent Help pride themselves on a team approach and working together to promote the recovery of our young people.

Interested?

For more information about the post please contact:

Nicola Chainey - Head of Service CAMHS Acute - 01444 472670

We are happy to arrange informal visits Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

Nicola Chainey - Head of Service CAMHS Acute - 01444 472670

Interview date: TBC

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in occupational therapy or Nursing/Social Work
• Evidence of post qualification study
• Registration with the HPC, NMC or Social Work England
• Training in the use of standardised assessment tools

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience as a qualified mental health practitioner
• Broad experience of working with young people with a range of mental health problems
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience of supervising staff and students
• Experience with Looked after and Adopted children
• Experience of multi-agency work
• Experience in applying a range of assessment tools and a comprehensive knowledge of clinical approaches

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chalkhill

Princess Royal Hospital Site

Haywards Heath

RH16 4NQ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

354-CS-21588-A