Job summary
Lincoln CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) Core Team are looking for a Practitioner to help in providing an 'outstanding' (CQC) specialist mental health service to children, young people and their families.
Are you an experienced and highly motivated individual who can join us in making a difference to children, young people and their families in Lincolnshire who are experiencing mental health challenges? If so, we would love you to join our established multi-disciplinary team in Lincoln.
We provide assessment and a range of therapeutic interventions, working alongside children, young people and their families as they learn, develop understanding and skills that establish good mental health practices.
The post is based at our main team base in Lincoln but you will need to be able to travel independently throughout the County, (and occasionally further) including to our satellite base in Gainsborough.
You will be supported by the Team Co-ordinator, Clinical Lead and Team and will take part in regular, high quality supervision and training so that you feel confident in your contribution to the team and children/young person's journey within CAMHS and beyond.
Main duties of the job
- Act as Care Coordinator 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.
- Work within defined waiting times.
- Provide an extended hours service, as required.
- Participate in the planning and delivery of group interventions.
- Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families.
- To be able to travel independently and work flexibly.
- Develop Band 5 staff and provide supervision/line management on all of the above.
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 clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details.
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
- Mentorship or similar qualification in supporting students in practice
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Post regiatration traning in supervision
Experience
Essential
- oRelevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with severe and enduring mental ill health.
- oExperience of managing and developing staff including providing management and/or clinical supervision.
- oExperience of using evidence based practice
- oPost registration experience of working with children and young people and their families
Desirable
- oPost registration experience of working within CAMHS
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach.
- Sound knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Excellent understanding of child and adolescent development and it's possible impact on emotional well-being
- Excellent knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and risk management of young people in crisis
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties
- Comprehensive 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
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
- Mentorship or similar qualification in supporting students in practice
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Post regiatration traning in supervision
Experience
Essential
- oRelevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with severe and enduring mental ill health.
- oExperience of managing and developing staff including providing management and/or clinical supervision.
- oExperience of using evidence based practice
- oPost registration experience of working with children and young people and their families
Desirable
- oPost registration experience of working within CAMHS
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach.
- Sound knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
- Excellent understanding of child and adolescent development and it's possible impact on emotional well-being
- Excellent knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and risk management of young people in crisis
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties
- Comprehensive 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
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
