CAMHS Senior Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a top-performing NHS Trust as a Band 7 Nurse Specialist in CAMHS, dedicated to providing exceptional mental health support for children and young people. This role involves delivering comprehensive mental health services, conducting specialist assessments, and implementing effective treatment plans. With a focus on professional development and a supportive work environment, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of mental health care in North Tyneside. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Extensive health and well-being programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

On-site nursery places

Access to savings scheme

Professional development training

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Nurse with experience in mental health settings.
• Experience with children and young people is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality mental health services for children and young people.
• Formulate and implement treatment plans based on assessments.

Skills

Mental Health Care

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Leadership Skills

Psychological Therapies

Training and Supervision

Education

1st Level Registered Nurse

Registered Mentor

Teaching and Training Qualification

Post Registration Qualification in Therapeutic Modality

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Job overview

If you are a Registered Nurse (Child/Paediatric/Learning Disability/Mental Health/Adult) and have experience working with children and young people in a mental Health setting and are committed to providing outstanding care - NORTH TYNESIDE SPECIALIST CAMHS NEEDS YOU.

North Tyneside CAMHS is a specialist Mental Health Service working with children and young people birth to 18 years of age with moderate and enduring mental health problems.

As a Band 7 Nurse Specialist CAMHS Team your role would include supporting the growth and development of the Service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children and young people with moderate and enduring mental health difficulties.

The duties of the post will include contributing to specialist assessment to help those around the child make sense of their difficulties (all aspects of assessment, including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, learning, systemic factors, the role of trauma).

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy for individual children, their families or carers who are referred within a specific locality of the North Tyneside area.

To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individual children, their families or carers.

To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

To provide specialist advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-CAMHS colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• 1st Level Registered Nurse
• Registered Mentor
• A recognised teaching and training qualification.
• Additional post registration qualification in a specific therapeutic modality.

Experience & Knowledge

• Significant experience working in child and adolescent mental health services or substantial experience of working with children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
• Experience of working with Children and Young People in a variety of settings.
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies.
• Evidence of leadership skills/experience.
• Experience of delivering training/clinical supervision.
• Experience of delivering a wide range of interventions including group work, parenting work and individual therapy.
• Knowledge, experience and understanding of child protection policies and procedures.
• Evidence of practice development.
• Experience of or training in psychological therapies.

Other Requirements

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.