Specialist Clinician - Nurse
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour.We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join the Whole Family CAMHS Team (WFT) as part of our initiative to increase the nursing offer in an outreach CAMHS setting. The WFT is a specialist CAMHS service working alongside Camden Local Authority Children’s Services.The team specialises in working with families facing complex difficulties, who work with several professionals and may struggle to access community services.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Community CAMHS Nurse will be to develop and provide CAMHS nursing input to young people under 18 and their families. This role will support the team to manage their waiting list. The post holder will be working with young people and their families in need of mental health support.This will involve intensive working with a variety of clients in community settings, within client’s homes, within school settings and in other local authority settings. Providing in-reach to inpatient settings and developing functional relationships with colleagues in a range of agencies is also pivotal to this role.
Working for our organisation
The person will be accountable for a defined caseload of clients, supported by the multi-disciplinary team and will receive regular clinical supervision from a senior member of the Service. They will also be expected to work jointly with other members of the team offering specialist CAMHS advice, consultation and training as required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
- Registered Nurse with up-to-date NMC registration
- Relevant post registration training
- Advanced Clinical Training in a therapeutic modality(eg. CBT, DBT, Family Therapy).
Experience
Essential criteria- Post qualification experience within acute or Community Mental health setting (Adult Mental Health or CAMHS)
- Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population. A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
- Experience of working in the community
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- Expertise of managing and treating the client group Some experience of clinical supervision
- Some experience of clinical management of staff
- Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Nursing work with children and adolescents with mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
- Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
- Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
- Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.
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Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
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PLEASE NOTE:- The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.
- Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.
- Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date
- In submitting an application form, you authorise the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post
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