Job summary
Applications are invited for a Children's and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Practitioner to work within North Tyneside, predominantly into the multidisciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment team.
The duties of the post will include contributing to specialist assessment to help those around the child make sense of their difficulties (all aspects of assessment, including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, learning, systemic factors, the role of trauma). We are looking for someone with an interest and experience in neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD, ASC and mental health.
Essential previous experience will include: working in mental health services (or equivalent) with children and their families is essential, preferably in CAMHS; experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions; and specifically, assessment within a diagnostic context of such conditions.
Main duties of the job
The main duties include:
To play a key role in the provision of an highly specialist service to Children, Young People and their families accessing North Tyneside Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. To offer community based and out patient mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and their families.
Working into the neurodevelopmental specialty within CAMHS although may be required to work across locality CAMHS Teams as required.
Flexibility of working pattern to meet the needs of service users.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working across locality CAMHS Teams as required.
Working with children from birth to eighteen and their families.
Participation in daily duty rota.
Flexibility of working pattern to meet the needs of service users.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working across locality CAMHS Teams as required.
Working with children from birth to eighteen and their families.
Participation in daily duty rota.
Flexibility of working pattern to meet the needs of service users.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification i.e. 1st Level Registered Nurse, social work, OT, psychology or equivalent professional qualification/relevant experience
- Hold current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC or BACP
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent qualification and / or experience
Desirable
- A recognised teaching and training qualification.
- Additional qualification in a specific therapeutic modality
- Training and/or experience in working with neurodevelopmental conditions
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in child and adolescent mental health services or substantial experience of working with children and young people with emotional and behavioural and neurodevelopmental difficulties.
- Experience of working with Children and Young People in a variety of settings.
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies.
- A broad understanding of the mental health needs of children and young people
- An understanding of Child and Adolescent Development
- Familiarity and understanding of key national documents and developments affecting the delivery of CAMHS
- Evidence of leadership skills/experience.
- Experience of delivering training/clinical supervision.
- Experience of delivering a wide range of interventions including group work, parenting work and individual therapy.
- Ability to plan implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical information
- Knowledge, experience and understanding of child protection policies and procedures.
- Evidence of practice development.
Desirable
- Experience of or training in psychological therapies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification i.e. 1st Level Registered Nurse, social work, OT, psychology or equivalent professional qualification/relevant experience
- Hold current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC or BACP
- Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent qualification and / or experience
Desirable
- A recognised teaching and training qualification.
- Additional qualification in a specific therapeutic modality
- Training and/or experience in working with neurodevelopmental conditions
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in child and adolescent mental health services or substantial experience of working with children and young people with emotional and behavioural and neurodevelopmental difficulties.
- Experience of working with Children and Young People in a variety of settings.
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies.
- A broad understanding of the mental health needs of children and young people
- An understanding of Child and Adolescent Development
- Familiarity and understanding of key national documents and developments affecting the delivery of CAMHS
- Evidence of leadership skills/experience.
- Experience of delivering training/clinical supervision.
- Experience of delivering a wide range of interventions including group work, parenting work and individual therapy.
- Ability to plan implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical information
- Knowledge, experience and understanding of child protection policies and procedures.
- Evidence of practice development.
Desirable
- Experience of or training in psychological therapies.
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).
