Job summary
The Child and Adolescent Services Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Home Intensive Treatment Team (HITT) provides packages of person-centred community (at home) interventions to support young people (aged 11-18) and those that care for them.
The young people we support are typically experiencing a mental health crisis, often with increased risk of harm. We are therefore keen to attract qualified practitioners who are passionate, dynamic, ideally skilled in crisis management, de-escalation, collaborative risk management, and therapeutic care planning. We will use your skills to offer bespoke packages of care/treatment/therapy to help keep young people stay safe in the community and reduce their risk of A&E attendance, placement breakdown, or psychiatric hospital admission. These packages of care are intensive, usually delivered across multiple session each week for up to 6 weeks.
This is an exciting opportunity to get involved while we continue to develop this new, award winning service and help shape the crisis support for young people and ultimately improve their lifelong well-being.
We welcome applications from anyone who feels they can develop the skills required for this post. If you are a registered nurse (of any discipline), social worker, or occupational therapist and are keen for a change, we would support you to develop within our supportive team. We can offer a bespoke introduction and training plan in Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health Services.
Main duties of the job
Work collaboratively with our core CAMHS and other Mental Health Services across the system as well as Acute and/or Specialist Hospitals, the Police, Education and Social Care.
Work directly with children and young people with mental health needs and those who care for them. Conduct psychosocial and risk assessments, and identify strategies and creative interventions to help children and young people participate in normal family and community activities and to facilitate positive outcomes in relation to young people's mental health needs, ensuring that they are supported to remain in their own homes, while providing long lasting life skills and resilience to future crisis episodes.
To be responsible for an agreed caseload. Case loads will be small and due to the nature of the service, support will be provided from across the team to utilise the excellent variety of skills and expertise that each memebr of team can offer. All clinicians will have a responsibility to provide input and support into each other's case load.
This is an extended hours service which will involve shifts including weekends and evenings. There is no current requirement to work nights, current operational hours are 8am - 8pm 7 days per week, this may change as the service develops.
The CAMHS directorate in Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT) is made up of a number of small community services and one inpatient unit, we are a friendly and very supportive team of around 500 staff in total.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (mental health, general, paediatric, learning disabilities), social worker, occupational therapist or Allied Health Professional on NMC or HCPC Register
- Post-registration experience, evidence of formal courses and training at diploma/degree level.
- Conforms to NMC/HCPC requirements
Desirable
- BSc degree in nursing/relevant professional degree or equivalent level
- Qualification in providing supervision
- Qualification in coaching
- Psychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working with children & young people experiencing mental health related difficulties
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
- Experience of working in community setting and making decisions autonomously
- Experience of assessing, planning, coordinating and managing people with mental health problems in a community setting
- Experience of integrating care delivery across multi-disciplinary /multi agency teams
- Experience of leading/contributing to CPA/Care Planning process
- Experience of dealing with mental health related issues/referrals/need for advice by telephone including at times of high demand and in relation to highly stressful/emotive situations
- Experience and ability to carry out clinical audit
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the Mental Health NICE Guidelines
- Knowledge of NMC/HCPC Code of Conduct relevant to profession
- Understanding of the principles of the Care Programme Approach and Community Care Act
- Demonstrate understanding of Equality and Anti-discriminatory practice
- Knowledge of other relevant local and national documents/drivers that affects practice
- Knowledge of the wide range of statutory independent and third sector service provision for C&YP with mental ill health
- Knowledge or interest of working with young people with eating disorders / eating distress
- Skills of assessing, planning and evaluating care, for people with mental health related difficulties, utilising the principles of Recovery
- Skilled in the assessment of clinical risk and developing and communicating appropriate risk management plans
- Accurate and timely recording and maintenance of information systems
- Ability to type into and read information from electronic records
- Ability to manage conflict and complexity
- Ability to work flexibly and away from main base of other CAMHS staff/colleagues
Desirable
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crises.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (mental health, general, paediatric, learning disabilities), social worker, occupational therapist or Allied Health Professional on NMC or HCPC Register
- Post-registration experience, evidence of formal courses and training at diploma/degree level.
- Conforms to NMC/HCPC requirements
Desirable
- BSc degree in nursing/relevant professional degree or equivalent level
- Qualification in providing supervision
- Qualification in coaching
- Psychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of extensive post registration experience with working with children & young people experiencing mental health related difficulties
- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
- Experience of working in community setting and making decisions autonomously
- Experience of assessing, planning, coordinating and managing people with mental health problems in a community setting
- Experience of integrating care delivery across multi-disciplinary /multi agency teams
- Experience of leading/contributing to CPA/Care Planning process
- Experience of dealing with mental health related issues/referrals/need for advice by telephone including at times of high demand and in relation to highly stressful/emotive situations
- Experience and ability to carry out clinical audit
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the Mental Health NICE Guidelines
- Knowledge of NMC/HCPC Code of Conduct relevant to profession
- Understanding of the principles of the Care Programme Approach and Community Care Act
- Demonstrate understanding of Equality and Anti-discriminatory practice
- Knowledge of other relevant local and national documents/drivers that affects practice
- Knowledge of the wide range of statutory independent and third sector service provision for C&YP with mental ill health
- Knowledge or interest of working with young people with eating disorders / eating distress
- Skills of assessing, planning and evaluating care, for people with mental health related difficulties, utilising the principles of Recovery
- Skilled in the assessment of clinical risk and developing and communicating appropriate risk management plans
- Accurate and timely recording and maintenance of information systems
- Ability to type into and read information from electronic records
- Ability to manage conflict and complexity
- Ability to work flexibly and away from main base of other CAMHS staff/colleagues
Desirable
- Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crises.
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).
