Lead Nurse- ADHD Pathway

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

The post holder has a dual role. They will manage and lead on the professional development and provision of supervision to nursing staff and mental health practitioners in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in line with service and trust objectives and in partnership with relevant staff. They will also provide highly specialist expert clinical intervention to partner services, agencies and vulnerable children and young people with mental health and Neuro Developmental Needs. They will take a strategic and leadership role in achieving the aims of the service including:

Actively driving and shaping the Neuro Developmental and mental health pathways in service to ensure the highest standard of care.

Leading on services consolidation as well as expansion in line with service and trust objectives and in partnership with the General Manager and wider managerial and clinical leadership team.

Provide professional leadership, advice and managerial supervision to nursing staff within CAMHS and, where appropriate Mental Health Practitioners also external agencies.

Provide strategic nursing input at a senior level across Barnsley CAMHS, ensuring effective advice to the senior management and clinical team.

Provide expert CAMHS consultation, assessment and intervention, effectively identifying and diagnosing the cause of emotional and behavioural problems in children within Barnsley CAMHS .

The postholder will be responsible for a caseload aligned to their area of specialist practice.

Take on a strategic lead on the development of nursing and mental health led pathways for vulnerable children and young people.

Be responsible for leading and researching the effectiveness of practice development and the advancement of care within CAMHS, specifically in relation to vulnerable children including Looked After Children and those with Neuro Developmental Needs.

The post holder is expected to contribute to the body of knowledge and develop practice in the specialist area at a national level, through publications, conference presentations and participation in seminars. This requires academic standards at least at masters level

The post holder is expected to work with the senior leadership team to drive the development of nurse led pathways across Barnsley CAMHS including Trainee Nurse Associate roles.

The post holder will have a proven track record in achieving the highest standards in the management of people and services and in the delivery of complex CAMHS interventions.

The post holder will liaise with medical and adult mental health professionals internally and externally and across a range of settings and work autonomously within professional practice and Trust guidelines. The postholder will contribute to policy and service development, contribute to research, service evaluation and audit for the service and contribute to the training of the clinical team and others.

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

To develop and direct Barnsley CAMHS in conjunction with Clinical Leads, senior management and in line with Trust strategy.

To develop and implement effective multiagency working reflecting the changing demands and thresholds of the service.

To ensure that the service remains service user focused, safe, effective, competitive as well as productive within the resources available.

To promote developmental opportunities for others within the team.

To foster, promote and support the multidisciplinary way of working.

To access training and demonstrate learning appropriate to area of specialism.

To communicate complex and sensitive information to C&YP, parents, carers, professionals and other agencies/services as appropriate.

To use resources effectively and creatively in order to achieve best value, meet financial targets and ensure that staff recruitment and retention meets service needs.

To ensure that clinical governance requirements are met and participate in Trust clinical and research governance activities as appropriate to own role.

To develop the annual service line and team job planning.

To develop and implement staff performance management systems to ensure that key performance indicators are met (locally or nationally).

To manage performance, ensuring that service requirements are met and, where appropriate, effective and efficient enforcement action is taken.

To have an up to date clinical knowledge of a range of mental health problems including specific knowledge related to vulnerable groups of young people e.g. Looked After Children, Neuro Developmental and trauma

To identify client need and mobilise available resources as appropriate. Formulating mental healthcare treatment plans that are specific to each C&YP and family/carer. To identify safeguarding concerns and implement safeguarding policies and processes for individual cases.

To safeguard C&YP, their families/carers and the public using safeguarding directives, trust and service policy.

To utilise skills to manage conflicting and complex information, communicate effectively and deal with situations and problems of an emotive and demanding nature, taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication.

To actively support service user involvement at all levels of service provision.

To explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships in order to improve service delivery.

To liaise and work with voluntary and statutory agencies. To participate in and represent the service and team at meetings. To chair, and manage meetings in multi disciplinary and multi-agency settings.

To adhere strictly to information governance and documentation procedures and utilise IT systems to ensure accurate recording and reporting of work.

Ensure personal professional registration is always up to date and appropriate professional development is undertaken.

To ensure that responsibilities under health and safety at work legislation are complied with.

To undertake serious incident investigations as required.

To conform to, actively commit to and promote the service and SWYPFT standards with internal and external parties.

To undertake other duties as reasonably fall within the scope and grade of the post.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.

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Physical Attributes

Essential

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Training and Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment with C&YP with mental health difficulties, emotional, behavioural and relation problems and their families.
• Competent in working within a mental health field.
• Competent in assessment and intervention with a child and adolescent patient group.
• Evidence of conducting audit/research.
• Significant clinical experience of working in a CAMHS setting with vulnerable groups of children/young people e.g. Looked After Children, Secure environments.
• Working knowledge of appropriate legislation in relation to Looked After Children and mental health issues: Mental health Act and Children and Young Persons Act, 2008), Children Act 1989/2004.
• Significant experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting and of working with other agencies (voluntary and statutory).
• Evidence of teaching experience.
• Competent in safeguarding, mental state and specialist risk assessment.
• Experience of working with complex, emotive and contentious cases.
• Competent in development and delivery of presentations.
• Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support to practitioners.
• Experience of leading investigations.
• Managing people including setting and monitoring objectives against performance.
• Experience in developing specialist services.
• Experience of working with complex and high risk cases.
• Competent in providing staff supervision.

Desirable

• Additional specialist post-qualification training such as ADOS, SAVRY.
• Experience in contributing to policy development.
• Experience of monitoring and managing budgets.
• Experience/knowledge of gender specific needs.
• Experience of business planning.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, fluent and articulate in English.
• Ability to concentrate for prolonged periods and deal with interruptions or unpredictability.
• Is professional, with excellent time keeping, honesty, reliability and flexibility.
• Is able to prioritise, negotiate, challenge and manage conflict.
• Is resilient with an ability to remain calm and make decisions in pressurised, stressful situations and environments.
• Is enthusiastic motivated and demonstrates a commitment and able to balance this with a realistic approach.
• Is able to use own initiative and to exercise individual judgement and prioritise where appropriate. To demonstrate advanced professional reasoning skills.
• Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
• Has a good level of self awareness and is a good team player.

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Nursing qualification at degree level with related CAMHS experience.
• Up to date Registration with the NMC.
• Evidence of maintaining skills and knowledge base in professional field (CAMHS) through post qualifying training to Masters level or equivalent.
• Non medical prescriber.

Desirable

• Teaching, training or mentorship qualification or experience to an equivalent level.

Special Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Can demonstrate development of expertise in clinical and managerial roles within a child and adolescent services.
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills (written, oral and verbal).
• Innovation, problem solving, creativity and ability in leading and developing others.
• Proven ability to plan and organise and manage change.
• Experience of recruitment and selection.
• Able to deal sensitively with service users, carers and relatives who have high levels of stress, anxiety and aggression.
• Demonstrates experience, professional specialist nursing skills, values and theoretical knowledge in work.
• Ability to engage with, develop and sustain relationships with service users, carers and groups.
• Ability to provide assessment and identify appropriate interventions and signpost to relevant services, taking into account gender, racial, cultural and religious factors.
• Ability and competence in providing consultation and recommendations to other professionals.
• Ability to develop and sustain effective working relationships with professionals, and across the boundaries of voluntary and statutory agencies to maximise the effectiveness of services.
• Ability and competence in providing consultation and recommendations to other professionals.
• Able to work as a leader and team member and to acknowledge validity of other approaches.
• Recognises own position within trust and service and the impact of self and service in the wider organisation.
• Ability to work under pressure and with flexibility.
• Ability to work with sensitive and provocative information/cases.
• Ability to work with complex cases and use judgement and problem solving skills to determine solutions.
• Able to demonstrate accuracy and attention to detail in work.
• Experience of working jointly with professionals from other disciplines in and outside of health.

Desirable

• Experience of NHS systems and procedures.
• Experience in supporting staff with performance issues.
• Experience of incident reporting and investigation, for example root cause analysis.

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).