Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Consultant Clinical Social Worker to join HPFT's Community CYPMHS Team and for a 12 month maternity cover. HPFT is at the forefront of providing integrated health and social care. The Trust is one of only a handful of mental health trusts in the country to receive a CQC rating of 'OUTSTANDING'.
CYPMHS Community teams are welcoming, supportive multi-disciplinary teams which are committed to providing innovative and high quality care. This is a county wide service with a bases across Herts providing services to children and young people experiencing severe and enduring mental health issues. You will work alongside other clinical social workers, nurses, systemic family therapists, clinical psychologists, child psychotherapists, psychiatrists and operational staff and with our partner agencies across Social Care and Education. You will have HCPC registration.
As a service we offer various models of evidence-based therapeutic intervention and work alongside our other CYPMHS services including our Eating Disorders Team, Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team, DBT team, Forensic Adolescent Practitioner service, Adolescent inpatient unit, Home Treatment Team and our CYPMHS Targeted team.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to offer mental health assessments and interventions to young people and their families and carers with an ability to work with a high level of complexity and risk. You will be expected to work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners and to support other clinicians in your team. The teams work within the context of iThrive, CAPA and CYP-IAPT.
The role may involve you to be invited to join the the senior leadership team meetings where your expertise will help support the decision making of complex cases in the team. You will also be expected to provide supervision to clinicians in the team. You would be required to support colleagues and teams in shaping and developing our services going forwards and for ensuring adherence to protocols, policies and KPI's.
As a consultant social worker you will support the team functioning as well as have a caseload to manage. Within the team you will support the team in facilitating safeguarding consultations and discussions spaces.
The successful candidate will be supported to develop and build on existing skills and knowledge and will have access to a range of training opportunities to fit with both the needs of the service and personal interests.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will provide a variety of clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development.
The post holder will be supported to develop personally and professionally and there are opportunities for service development.
HPFT CAMHS service is leading in transforming care for young people and their families and has a CAMHS Home Treatment Team, a CAMHS DBT Service, and a dedicated CAMHS Section 136 Suite. We also host our own Tier 4 Inpatient Unit for young people, Forest House Adolescent Unit, which has worked to reduce inpatient admissions and improve community care for young people in crisis.
If you would like to visit the team to find out more please do contact us to arrange this.
Please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached for full details regarding the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will provide a variety of clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development.
The post holder will be supported to develop personally and professionally and there are opportunities for service development.
HPFT CAMHS service is leading in transforming care for young people and their families and has a CAMHS Home Treatment Team, a CAMHS DBT Service, and a dedicated CAMHS Section 136 Suite. We also host our own Tier 4 Inpatient Unit for young people, Forest House Adolescent Unit, which has worked to reduce inpatient admissions and improve community care for young people in crisis.
If you would like to visit the team to find out more please do contact us to arrange this.
Please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached for full details regarding the post.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- RMN/RN (MH) / Social Work Qualification
- BSc in Mental Health Practice or equivalent or substantial Post qualifying experience in Liaison Psychiatry
- Mentoring and assessing students qualification
- 5 years and/or more post qualification
Desirable
- Cert or Dip in Management Relevant skills-based training MSc or equivalent
- Experience of working within a CAMHS setting assessing or supporting young people experiencing a mental health crisis
Areas Of Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Significant and relevant experience of working with a therapeutic model in assessing or supporting young people experiencing a mental health crisis
- Significant experience of community-focused care
- Multi-professional working/case management
- Experience of carrying out autonomous acute Mental health assessment
- The ability to lead a multi-professional team and provide on-going operational, clinical and professional supervision
- Complex knowledge of legislation and policy regarding the provision of Mental Health care/services and other relevant legislation
- Knowledge of Bio-Psycho-social models of care
- Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment
Desirable
- Previous involvement in service development and knowledge of Change Management
- Experience of Budget and resource management
- Experience of operational policy development
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- RMN/RN (MH) / Social Work Qualification
- BSc in Mental Health Practice or equivalent or substantial Post qualifying experience in Liaison Psychiatry
- Mentoring and assessing students qualification
- 5 years and/or more post qualification
Desirable
- Cert or Dip in Management Relevant skills-based training MSc or equivalent
- Experience of working within a CAMHS setting assessing or supporting young people experiencing a mental health crisis
Areas Of Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Significant and relevant experience of working with a therapeutic model in assessing or supporting young people experiencing a mental health crisis
- Significant experience of community-focused care
- Multi-professional working/case management
- Experience of carrying out autonomous acute Mental health assessment
- The ability to lead a multi-professional team and provide on-going operational, clinical and professional supervision
- Complex knowledge of legislation and policy regarding the provision of Mental Health care/services and other relevant legislation
- Knowledge of Bio-Psycho-social models of care
- Knowledge of physical health contributions to Mental Health issues, difficulties and assessment
Desirable
- Previous involvement in service development and knowledge of Change Management
- Experience of Budget and resource management
- Experience of operational policy development
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Borehamwood Civic Office, HPFT Ground Floor
Hertsmere Civic Offices, Elstree Way,
Borehamwood
WD6 1WA
Employer's website
https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
