CAMHS Urgent Care Team Lead

Transformation Unit; Hasland; À distance; GBP 49 000 - 57 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CAMHS Urgent Care Team Lead (NHS AfC: Band 7) to join our multidisciplinary team in North Derbyshire. You will lead urgent mental health care for children and young people, undertake risk assessments and develop safety plans with strong interagency collaboration.

You will have a professional CAMHS qualification, regulatory registration, and experience in leadership, service development, and urgent mental health interventions for

Qualifications

• Professional CAMHS qualification (e.g., OT, RMN, SW).
• Registration with the appropriate regulatory body.
• Post-basic CAMHS training or equivalent.
• Graduate level qualification and evidence of supervision training.
• Experience leading teams and contributing to service development.
• Experience with mental health assessments and risk planning.

Responsabilités

• Lead mental health assessments and brief interventions for under-18s.
• Coordinate and supervise the CAMHS Urgent Care Team.
• Develop robust risk assessments and safety planning.
• Collaborate with Paediatrics, ED, Children’s Social Care and other partners.

Formation

CAMHS professional qualification

Regulatory registration

Graduate level qualification

CAMHS supervision training

Description du poste

Employer Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site CAMHS Chesterfield Royal Hospital Town Calow Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/2026 23:59

CAMHS Urgent Care Team Lead

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

Do you want to be part of a forward thinking, well respected, fast moving, multi-disciplinary young person’s Urgent Care Team? Can you deliver compassionate care to those young people that present in mental health crisis?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our CAMHS Urgent Care Team in North Derbyshire. The Team is a well-established part of the wider CAMHS Service and is a supportive, well organised team with a culture of friendly, multi-disciplinary work based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

You will have experience of direct work with children and young people who have mental health problems and you will be adept at undertaking mental health assessments and interventions. You will have the necessary knowledge in assessing risk and drawing up robust safety plans.

You will have a core professional qualification eg Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or HCPC registered AHP.

Main duties of the job

The Urgent Care Team provides a rapid response service to children and young people and families who are presenting with acute mental health or emotional disturbance to a degree where the risk they pose indicates that an inpatient admission may be required.

You will offer mental health and risk assessment, formulation and brief intervention with those young people under 18 who are presenting with urgent mental health needs. The team operate between the hours of 08am-11pm over seven days with plans to develop 24 hour on-call cover (NHS Agenda for change pay enhancements apply.)

Working for our organisation

Working for your organisation

The team have well established links with Paediatrics, our ED Department, and Children’s Social Care, Education and other partner agencies across North Derbyshire.

Whilst you care for our young people and families, in turn we recognise the importance of caring for you – clinical supervision, career & personal development and health & wellbeing support are all core to our service. If you’re keen to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, come and talk to us about how we could support that.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Professional qualification in a field relevant to child & adolescent mental health eg Occupational Therapist, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker.
• Registration with an appropriate regulatory body
• Post basic training in child & adolescent mental health Graduate level qualification Evidence of accredited qualification in the training/supervision of trainees/students

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with children & families including work with child mental health needs.
• Experience of leadership/coordination within a team or willingness to develop skills.
• Experience of contributing to service development, particularly interagency developments.
• Experience of mental health assessments, including risk and the implementation of a wide range of therapeutic interventions in conjunction with other agencies
• Working knowledge of health, social services, education and the voluntary sector
• Ability to manage a caseload autonomously.
• Experience of working in CAMHS at a senior level. Experience of working in a multi agency community setting offering consultation & liaison. Experience of working in a culturally diverse community Experience in working with a broad range of clinical and behavioural presentations Experience of service evaluation & audit. Experience of involving users & carers in service developments

skills and knowledge

• Qualities essential to clinical practice e.g. respect, genuineness and personal integrity
• Communication skills to enable a helping relationship
• Working knowledge of legislation relevant to CAMHS and mental health Knowledge of models of consultation and supervision
• Leading research projects undertaken within the service. Clinical leadership skills. Experience in supervision, both as provider & recipient.

Personal Attributes

• A car driver with a full current driving licence and own transport

Demonstrates our Proud to Care Values

• Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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.