Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary
We are looking for a Band 7 CAMHS Clinician to work in our Wandsworth Single Point of Access (SPA) triage and assessment service.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate, and dedicated CAMHS Experienced Clinician (Psychologist, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Social worker, Psychotherapist, family therapist) interested in contributing to a high-quality mental health provision for the borough of Wandsworth.

You will be an experienced CAMHS Clinician/practitioner who is registered with a professional body and has significant experience in working with children and young people in a CAMHS Community setting and providing high quality mental health assessments.

The advert is open to Registered mental health nurses, HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologists, Psychotherapists, social workers with mental health experience and family therapists.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and welcome staff from diverse backgrounds, such as candidates from minoritised backgrounds and from the LGBTQ+ community.

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles.

Main duties of the job
At the Wandsworth Access, we process and manage all new referrals for children and adolescents in the Wandsworth borough where there are concerns about emotional/mental health and developmental difficulties.

The Wandsworth Access team works closely with other CAMHS teams and with multi-agency professionals including GPs, schools, social care and other organisations and charities in the local community, to help signpost families to the most appropriate support.

The CAMHS SPA provide triage and assessment for children, adolescents and their families experiencing a range of mental health, neurodevelopmental and emotional health difficulties. The SPA then directs the referrals to the appropriate CAMHS Team or signpost to alternative routes of support.

The successful candidate would be a key clinician within the CAMHS SPA, triaging referrals, offering mental health assessments, and liaising with multi-agency colleagues as described above.

About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our location:
This post will be based at Springfield Hospital

Job responsibilities
To process and triage referrals, arrange tirage calls, and provide screening mental health assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complexdata from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.

• Support neurodevelopmental screening and assessment of children and young people presenting with Neurodevelopmental concerns (including Autism Spectrum Conditions and ADHD)
• To evaluate and make decisions about signposting and/ or delivering intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, the family, and the wider system.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• To liaise with multi-agency professionals as needed and provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers.
• To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young people and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
• To provide supervision, consultations, and support to qualified staff and to trainees, interns, and assistant psychologists within the service
• To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
• To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide general advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, as well as to other agencies concerned with Public Protection, such as Social Services, Probation, Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. This includes organizing / attending professional network meetings where appropriate.

Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential

• Registered mental health nurse, or Qualified Clinical Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist, or Qualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist having successfully completed a training course recognised/accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or equivalent, and registered with ACP, or Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy

Desirable

• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• Experience of inter-agency working
• Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection

Desirable

• Experience of leading case reviews
• Experience of working in the NHS
• Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups

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.