Job summary
We are looking for a Band 5 clinician to join CAMHS Urgent Care and Assessment Team based in Weston-Super-Mare and covering the area of North Somerset.
We are looking for a dedicated and passionate individual who wants to develop their professional skills and gain experience in working in community with children and young people with complex mental health, social, emotional, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental needs.
This post is open to registered nurses, allied healthcare professionals and social workers. Other professionals with relevant clinical training and experience will also be considered.
As part of our commitment to service development, we are offering a recruitment incentive bonus of 15% of salary for a year and are willing to cover relocation expenses for the right candidate.
This is a developmental role with an aim to progress to band 6 within a year following regular supervision and review. You will be both supported and developed into more senior roles within the team pending review.
We offer additional in-house training in areas such as DBT, CBT, systemic work, attachment theory, trauma recovery model, NVR, and positive behavioural management.
The post is a full-time permanent position.
Main duties of the job
Autonomously undertaking and documenting acute hospital assessments
Offering 7-day follow up appointments following hospital presentation
Effective and comprehensive risk management and assessment
Care and treatment planning in collaboration with young people and their families
Appropriately recording and escalating Safeguarding concerns
Effective multiagency and multidisciplinary working
An in-depth knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
For further information, informal chat or to visit us please contact 0300 125 6700 and ask for Ben Ussher UCAT Team Manager or Carla Sammon, Clinical Lead Nurse
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding and dedicated staff promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise andresources within AWP are used according to person-centred approach, both for our service users and employees. We recognise that looking after own mental wellbeing and feeling fulfilled at work are prerequisites to better patient care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
As a team we pride ourselves in cultivating a culture of openness of discussion and creating a safe space for practitioners to share professional challenges they are facing.
The team is delivered in partnership with Off The Record Bristol.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role includes working extensively with young people both in community and in hospitals in North Somerset. As part of your role, you will be responsible for prompt mental health assessment of young people who have presented to hospital due to distress, self-injurious behaviour, overdose, attempted suicide, emerging eating disorders, psychosis or other mental health or psychosocial difficulties, often present comorbidly.
These include hospital assessments, assertive outreach into the community, complex discharge planning, risk management, complex care, multiagency working, care planning and risk formulation and signposting or redirecting to more suitable services if appropriate, as well as working collaboratively with children's services and AWP safeguarding.
Young people we work with present with a range of difficulties and come from diverse backgrounds therefore you will be required to work holistically to address their needs accordingly utilising the Social Graces model and in accordance with the Anti-Oppressive Practice policy. You will use a strength-based approach to work collaboratively with your patients and their families, in line with CYP-IAPT key principles. You will meet young people both in hospital and in community and you might be required to work shifts across a 7-day week, primarily 9am-5pm with an occasional cover of the CAMHS Emergency Response Line.
This is an important role to help develop skills and experience as a mental health practitioner to deliver high quality care, developing and sustaining relationships across agencies and using both evidence-based practice and routine outcome measures, you will use a strength-based approach to work collaboratively with service users, in line with CYP-IAPT key principles.
This post involves working weekends, evenings and nights.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role includes working extensively with young people both in community and in hospitals in North Somerset. As part of your role, you will be responsible for prompt mental health assessment of young people who have presented to hospital due to distress, self-injurious behaviour, overdose, attempted suicide, emerging eating disorders, psychosis or other mental health or psychosocial difficulties, often present comorbidly.
These include hospital assessments, assertive outreach into the community, complex discharge planning, risk management, complex care, multiagency working, care planning and risk formulation and signposting or redirecting to more suitable services if appropriate, as well as working collaboratively with children's services and AWP safeguarding.
Young people we work with present with a range of difficulties and come from diverse backgrounds therefore you will be required to work holistically to address their needs accordingly utilising the Social Graces model and in accordance with the Anti-Oppressive Practice policy. You will use a strength-based approach to work collaboratively with your patients and their families, in line with CYP-IAPT key principles. You will meet young people both in hospital and in community and you might be required to work shifts across a 7-day week, primarily 9am-5pm with an occasional cover of the CAMHS Emergency Response Line.
This is an important role to help develop skills and experience as a mental health practitioner to deliver high quality care, developing and sustaining relationships across agencies and using both evidence-based practice and routine outcome measures, you will use a strength-based approach to work collaboratively with service users, in line with CYP-IAPT key principles.
This post involves working weekends, evenings and nights.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental Health Nursing Qualification
Desirable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to work collaboratively with other staff
- Interest in self help material
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Flexible and adaptable to change
- Interest in diversity
- Knowledge of community care
- Ability to travel in areas where public transport is poor
- Understanding of common MH problems and their manager in CAMHS
Desirable
- Work with voluntary agencies
- Experience of working with diversity
- IT skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental Health Nursing Qualification
Desirable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to work collaboratively with other staff
- Interest in self help material
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Flexible and adaptable to change
- Interest in diversity
- Knowledge of community care
- Ability to travel in areas where public transport is poor
- Understanding of common MH problems and their manager in CAMHS
Desirable
- Work with voluntary agencies
- Experience of working with diversity
- IT skills
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).
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