Job summary
CAMHS Clinical Nurse Practitioner
An opportunity has arisen with the Milton Keynes Specialist CAMHS SPA Team for a registered professional to work within the SPA Team but also form part of the wider CAMHS multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The role will support the Team Leader by supervising and leading staff within the SPA Team and deputise for them during periods of absence. The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to deliver high quality training and supervision to staff in both clinical and daily supervision to the most complex cases and across the full range of presentations.
The successful candidate must demonstrate exemplary assessment skills with the ability to formulate and summarise their assessments to a high standard.
About us
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're 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.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a range of specialist interventions, advice and support to young people who are identified as having or at risk of developing emotional, psychological or mental health issues. To provide advice and consultation support to others in Tier 1 working with children/young people working across Milton Keynes.
The principal task will be to ensure mental health needs are identified and addressed through appropriate services. This will include the assessment of mental and emotional health needs and facilitating to better understand mental health issues and appropriate referral pathways. As a member of Milton Keynes Specialist CAMHS, the post holder will also be responsible for a personal caseload, working under the professional supervision of a Senior Clinician in CAMHS.
For further information about this post please see attached job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a range of specialist interventions, advice and support to young people who are identified as having or at risk of developing emotional, psychological or mental health issues. To provide advice and consultation support to others in Tier 1 working with children/young people working across Milton Keynes.
The principal task will be to ensure mental health needs are identified and addressed through appropriate services. This will include the assessment of mental and emotional health needs and facilitating to better understand mental health issues and appropriate referral pathways. As a member of Milton Keynes Specialist CAMHS, the post holder will also be responsible for a personal caseload, working under the professional supervision of a Senior Clinician in CAMHS.
For further information about this post please see attached job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/diploma in Nursing
- RMN
- Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council
- Safeguarding children training
Desirable
- MSC level training
- MBT
- Nurse prescriber qualification
- Management training
- Training qualification
- Research training
- CYP IAPT training
- Post registration training in a treatment modality to diploma/degree standard as a minimum such as CBT or DBT
Experience
Essential
- Post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary community CAMHS team as a band 5 nurse
- Experience of working with adolescents
- Experience of setting up groups and/or co-facilitating
Desirable
- Experience of developing bespoke training packages for non CAMHS professionals
- Fluent in an additional language
Core Competencies
Essential
- Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and urgent CAMHS assessment
- Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
- Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Understands the need for undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
- Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Experience of undertaking specialist assessment at a level appropriate to the job
Desirable
- Has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/diploma in Nursing
- RMN
- Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council
- Safeguarding children training
Desirable
- MSC level training
- MBT
- Nurse prescriber qualification
- Management training
- Training qualification
- Research training
- CYP IAPT training
- Post registration training in a treatment modality to diploma/degree standard as a minimum such as CBT or DBT
Experience
Essential
- Post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary community CAMHS team as a band 5 nurse
- Experience of working with adolescents
- Experience of setting up groups and/or co-facilitating
Desirable
- Experience of developing bespoke training packages for non CAMHS professionals
- Fluent in an additional language
Core Competencies
Essential
- Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and urgent CAMHS assessment
- Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
- Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk
- Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
- Understands the need for undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
- Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Experience of undertaking specialist assessment at a level appropriate to the job
Desirable
- Has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
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).
