South West London and St George's Trust is the main provider of integrated mental health and social care services in south west London. Our child and adolescent mental health service provide out-patient and consultation services to children experiencing a range of mental health and developmental difficulties.

The Kingston & Richmond CAMHS SPA service processes and manages all referrals for children and adolescents in Richmond and Kingston boroughs where there are concerns about emotional heath/mental health difficulties.

The CAMHS SPA provides triage and Mental Health Assessments for children, adolescents and their families experiencing a range of Mental Health, Neurodevelopmental and emotional health difficulties. The CAMHS SPA is integrated within Richmond and Kingston Children's Services and works closely with Children's social care, including working within the Multi Agency Support Hub (MASH) and our Tier 2 Emotional Health Service, provided through Achieving For Children. We also liaise closely with our GP, School and Health referrers, as well as local charitable and counselling support services to help signpost families to the most appropriate level of support.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding and growing Kingston & Richmond CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) Service. 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 in wider service development initiatives.

The Candidate should have the following:

• Experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings
• Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency professionals
• The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
• The ability to adapt to the fast-paced nature of SPA work, with good IT and computer recording skills to navigate between the various IT systems within CAMHS and the local authority.
• Knowledge and skills in risk assessment, management and safeguarding
• Be able to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions

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 work within a high-paced environment
• Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
• The ability to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Kingston & Richmond CAMHS SPA is based in the two locations, Woodroffe House in Tolworth and Livingston House Teddington which is due to relocate to Richmond Royal Hospital Spring/Summer 2025.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology

To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plan

To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carer

To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care

To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards

To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements

To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• oRegistered mental health nurse

Desirable

• oTraining as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• oDemonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings
• oExperience of multi-disciplinary team working
• oExperience of inter-agency working
• oExperience of safeguarding and Child Protection

Desirable

• oExperience of leading case reviews
• oExperience of working in the NHS
• oExperience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Tolworth Hospital

Surbiton

KT6 7QU

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