Job summary
The role of the Lead ADHD nurse is exciting
and varied! You will help build on the improvements that have been made over
recent years in assessment and treatment. Our ADHD Assessment Pathway is
something we are truly proud of with good waiting times and above the national
average! You will have a key role in representing Barnsley CAMHS in strategic
discussions with SYICB and at national/regional forums. You will have the
ambition and passion to drive improvements for the Neurodevelopmental Services
across South Yorkshire.
Staff
wellbeing is at the heart of Barnsley CAMHS you will be supported to flourish
in your role and have access to regular managerial and clinical supervision. We
will support your professional development in a truly rewarding role which will
help shape the lives of our young people here in Barnsley. This is a post to work up to 30hours and we
will support the right candidate to work these flexibly as we recognise the
importance of a good work life balance.
With our
commitment to staff development this post will be considered at band 7 or 8
dependent on experience and evidence of ability to meet essential criteria. We
will support the right candidate, through competency framework achievement
progression to Band 8A as per attached job descriptions.
Main duties of the job
You will
lead our ADHD pathway and Non-Medical Prescribing workforce. You will work as
an integral part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and Leadership Team where ADHD
diagnosis is considered, and recommendations made. You will be competent in
prescribing medications in this arena but will be supported to develop this
skill if necessary. You will be able to make good relationships with
professionals and families/carers and recognise the importance of multi-agency
working in complex situations. You will be a forward thinking, innovative
practitioner who has a passion for providing the best care possible for children
and young people. The successful candidate will be a confident, autonomous,
experienced practitioner who enjoys teaching and working with practitioners to
advance their skills in ADHD and lead our expanding Non-Medical Prescribing
team.
We would love to hear from you if you
are interested in this post and would be happy to talk further and answer your
questions; please contact Melissa Johnson, Team Manager- ADHD Pathway or Dr
Lourence Lewis-Hanna, Consultant Psychiatrist on 01226 644829.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the
minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to
work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
About us
We
are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health
and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,
Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are
the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is
to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this
by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ
staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a
difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage
and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value
diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being
a foundation Trust means were accountable to our
members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people
(including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join
us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving
the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and
help each year.
We
are committed
to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and
vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this
commitment.
We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Band 7 and Band 8A job descritpions for further information.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Band 7 and Band 8A job descritpions for further information.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
Person Specification
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).
Experience
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Experience of delivering training to others
- Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements
- Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Inter-agency liaison and consultation
- Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding
- Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
- Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice
- Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.
Desirable
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Experience of community settings
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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.
- Band 7:
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner
- Excellent negotiation skills, and problem solving skills
- Customer service orientation
- Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
- IT skills.
Desirable
- Band 8a:
- Experience of NHS systems and procedures
- Experience in supporting staff with performance issues.
- Experience of incident reporting and investigation, for example root cause analysis.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Commitment to multi-agency approach/working
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative
- and assertive
- Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure/crisis situations
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
- Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
- Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
- To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
- A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
- To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent and respectful.
Qualifications
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Nursing qualification
- Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD. LAC, eating disorder
- A teaching and assessing qualification
- Membership of professional body - NMC
Desirable
- Band 8A:
- Teaching, training or mentorship qualification or experience to an equivalent level.
- Band 7:
- Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
- Masters Level qualification
- Formal management/supervisory qualification
Person Specification
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).
Experience
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Experience of delivering training to others
- Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements
- Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Inter-agency liaison and consultation
- Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding
- Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
- Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice
- Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.
Desirable
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Experience of community settings
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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.
- Band 7:
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner
- Excellent negotiation skills, and problem solving skills
- Customer service orientation
- Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
- IT skills.
Desirable
- Band 8a:
- Experience of NHS systems and procedures
- Experience in supporting staff with performance issues.
- Experience of incident reporting and investigation, for example root cause analysis.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Commitment to multi-agency approach/working
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative
- and assertive
- Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure/crisis situations
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
- Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
- Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
- To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
- A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
- To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent and respectful.
Qualifications
Essential
- Band 8a:
- 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
- Band 7:
- Nursing qualification
- Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD. LAC, eating disorder
- A teaching and assessing qualification
- Membership of professional body - NMC
Desirable
- Band 8A:
- Teaching, training or mentorship qualification or experience to an equivalent level.
- Band 7:
- Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
- Masters Level qualification
- Formal management/supervisory qualification
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).
