Clinical Nurse Specialist (Risk Management)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will work closely with the Richmond CAMHS T3 services and wider community stakeholders.

The generic role will include:

To directly provide therapeutic intervention, assessment, consultation and treatment, taking responsibility for managing own caseload, while sharing case responsibility and treatment care with professionals from within CAMHS and across partnership agencies such as Childrens Services.

To contribute to specialist multi-disciplinary self-harm assessment and treatment.

To provide consultation and supervision to professionals working with children and adolescents

To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals who are contributing directly to the assessment, formulation and treatment plan of young people.

To work in close liaison with other childrens services including health, social care services, education and the voluntary sector.

To formulate assessment and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child or adolescents self-harm mental health needs, using frameworks which take account of an analysis of a complex range of information from multiple sources, and uses methods of intervention based upon evidence of effectiveness across the full range of care settings.

To manage meetings that routinely involve parents/carers and other professionals, where viewpoints can be different and in conflict.

To frequently manage complex and emotionally charged meetings with children and families where clients may be hostile, antagonistic or have high expressed emotion.

To be responsible for managing and prioritizing own workload of children and adolescents involving self-harm

To provide appropriate therapeutic intervention as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment plan.

To be responsible for implementing a range of group work interventions focusing on life skills training, motivational and creative activities, systemic, psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups.

To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses and adjusting and changing treatment options.

To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information, for example regarding the experience and effects of anorexia and bulimia on a young persons physical and developmental status.

To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age appropriate language, being mindful that the information may be unwelcome.

To be mindful of the needs of children, young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual religious and social backgrounds, and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs.

Professional

To ensure Trust standards of recording and information governance are maintained.

To provide consultation in relation to self-harm to a range of colleagues and professional groups as appropriate.

Teaching, Training and Supervision

To receive regular clinical supervision from the Service Manager

To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.

To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.

To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).

Other

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. For this post these specifically include:

1. Current Mental Health Legislation
2. The Childrens Act (1989)
3. Trust, London Borough of and panLondon child protection procedures.
4. Local and national developments in SWLStG CAMHS
5. Risk Assessment and Management o Clinical Governance o Local and national developments in line with Every Child Matters
6. Joint working practices between voluntary and statutory sector

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification experience
• Significant experience of working with self-harm
• Significant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
• Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups
• Leadership experience
• Experience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Providing and receiving supervision
• Establishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy

Desirable

• Experience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
• Conducting service evaluations
• Working collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services
• Work in a range of settings e.g. inpatient, community, residential
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Coaching skills, qualification.

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• First degree in mental health nursing
• Professional registration with NMC
• Evidence of relevant professional development

Desirable

• Further post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
• Supervision training
• An appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training. (e.g. ENB 998 or Practice Teacher Award)
• A postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Livingston House

Teddington

TW11 0LB

Employer's website

https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)