ETT Nurse Lead CAMHS

Job summary

To provide leadership within the Harrow CAMHS Enhanced treatment team, and along with the other multi-disciplinary professional leads, support the team manager by ensuring team structures and policies are adhered to, as well as supporting the development of new ways of working. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.https://vimeo.com/742639408

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Wherever you wish to work and whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL."

To find out more about working in CAMHS, please Click Here to watch one of our videos

Main duties of the job

The post holder will focus on;

Contributing to highly specialist assessments and treatment of children and young people with complex and high-risk mental health presentations including outreach work.

Supervise and manage the Enhanced Treatment Team within Harrow CAMHS. Ensuring effective clinical care is provided in line with clinical governance and best practice. Meeting service line performance targets.

Support the development of new services and protocols as dictated by CAMHS Transformation plans and good practice.

In line with service needs, the post holder will also provide CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing interventions and supporting case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions.

The post holder will provide advice and consultation to the team on nursing interventions with a focus on the most complex children and families. The post holder will provide operational management and clinical supervision to the Harrow CAMHS nurses, and where appropriate other staff, and have line management and clinical oversight of all job plans for Harrow CAMHS nurses.

About us

There's a place for you at CNWL! We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Job responsibilities

Provide comprehensive CAMHS assessments of children and young people. Formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

Be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.

Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

Provide specialist advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/diploma in Nursing
• Current professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) RMN.
• Recent Safeguarding children training

Desirable

• Research training
• CYP IAPT training
• MSC level training in a relevant specialist field or appropriate experience
• Relevant management training/ qualification
• Post registration training in a treatment modality to diploma/degree standard as a minimum such as CBT

Experience

Essential

• CAMHS specific Significant experience of working within a CAMHS team.
• Experience of resolving complex admission and discharge delays
• Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisals
• Experience of developing operational protocols and managing duty cover systems
• Experience of leading and developing multi-partnership collaboration arrangements at a senior level
• Experience of delivering training to colleagues
• Experience of delivering mental health awareness and bespoke CAMHS training to non CAMHS professionals

Desirable

• Experience of developing bespoke training packages for non CAMHS professionals

Core Competencies

Essential

• Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment
• Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
• Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice
• Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
• Able to promote self management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
• Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotas, peer support, training and skills development
• Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills

Specialist Competencies

Essential

• Experience of undertaking specialist assessment at a level appropriate to the job
• Understanding of need for and ability to form effective working partnerships with internal and external partners
• Ability to develop and implement clear and robust operational policy and protocol
• Ability to lead the development and implementation of new structures and process that impact on staff at all levels

Desirable

• Experience of undertaking assessment of parenting capacity as part of court required parenting assessment
• Nurse Prescriber
• Group Therapy
• CBT
• Family Therapy

Administration and Record Keeping

Essential

• Able to use word and excel to write reports and analyse and present basic data
• Competent in the use of clinical recording systems.
• Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records
• Understands and is able to use online incident reporting systems
• Able to use email to support effective communication in line with CNWL policy
• Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations

Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics

Essential

• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
• Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
• Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working
• Able to prioritise own workload
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
• Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment

Other

Essential

• Understands and able to implement and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job
• Understands and can apply confidentiality and information sharing policy and procedure