Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 clinician to work within Boston Core Child and Adolescent Mental health service (CAMHS).
The role is a full time(9-5 Mon-Fri) 37.5 hours (part time hours/job share can be considered)
You will work as part of a well-established highly skilled multi-disciplinary team you must be a compassionate, organised, team player with excellent communication skills and effective time management skills. You will ideally have some experience in clinical assessment, care planning and clinical decision making skills around risk management. You will be required to be accountable for your own caseload management and will identify evidence based therapeutic interventions which you will joint work with staff within the team to deliver. Your enthusiasm and motivation are just as important as your experience as full training can be provided for a successful applicant this role is also an opportunity for someone looking for their first developmental band 6 role.
You will receive regular management and clinical supervision, there are opportunities to access development/training opportunities if they arise in the duration of the post.
You will be able to travel independently around Boston, Spalding and Skegness.
Please contact Team Co-ordinator Katy Parker on 01205354202/ katy.parker7@nhs.net for more information.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
Provide care delivery to vulnerable groups, inclusive of but not exclusively:
Mild Learning Disability
Looked After Children
Survivors of abuse
Act as Care Coordinator under the CPA under the supervision of line manager.
Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
Empower patients and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
Provide therapeutic interventions reflective of CYP IAPT, within relevant care pathways.
Provide an extended hours service, as required.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of specialist clinical care to children and young people, providing safe and effective evidence based treatment within defined clinical pathways.
To provide support via liaison, consultation and training to universal services including the provision of a professional advice telephone line.
To provide, assessment planning, and implementation of care and monitor effectiveness of interventions to children and young people presenting with mental health difficulties, including vulnerable groups. Care Co-ordination under supervision of line manager.
Provide group and individual therapy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a high standard of specialist clinical care to children and young people, providing safe and effective evidence based treatment within defined clinical pathways.
To provide support via liaison, consultation and training to universal services including the provision of a professional advice telephone line.
To provide, assessment planning, and implementation of care and monitor effectiveness of interventions to children and young people presenting with mental health difficulties, including vulnerable groups. Care Co-ordination under supervision of line manager.
Provide group and individual therapy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP
- Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), Social Worker (CQSW, DipSW), Occupational Therapy or other relevant qualification e.g IAPT qualification and Counselling
Desirable
- Post qualification courses in child care practice or therapeutic work with children and families
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental ill health.
- Experience of using evidence based practice
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of group work
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
Desirable
- Risk management of young people in crisis.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP
- Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), Social Worker (CQSW, DipSW), Occupational Therapy or other relevant qualification e.g IAPT qualification and Counselling
Desirable
- Post qualification courses in child care practice or therapeutic work with children and families
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental ill health.
- Experience of using evidence based practice
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of group work
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
Desirable
- Risk management of young people in crisis.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
