CAMHS Nurse/Practitioner, Development Post

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Are you looking for a new and exciting career working within CAMHS? Come join our innovative team and get the support you need to develop your career, as we offer an exciting opportunity to train at Band 5 with uplift to Band 6 within 12/18 months. These roles would be particularly suitable for newly qualified Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and other Allied Health Professionals

CAMHS North Derbyshire is looking to appoint committed Band 5 practitioners with a passion for working with children and young people and the ability to work across Chesterfield, North Derbyshire and High Peaks teams.

Successful candidates will commence on a specific learning pathway, offering training and support in core competencies required to work with moderate to severe presentations. The role will involve a rotation to allow you to experience all specialist areas within CAMHS, providing opportunities, which will include; mental health and risk assessments, initial contact assessments and will require you to hold and manage your own caseload. These roles are based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Buxton Health Centre.

To be able to work flexibly across all areas of the service with an enthusiasm needed to engage a wide range of diverse and complex presentations, managing high emotion and crisis as they occur.

To be able to manage your own case load, working towards becoming an autonomous practitioner.

To become confident in developing robust care and safety plans, including individual goals with the children and young people you assess.

To be able to work face to face, via telephone and video.

To feel confident in addressing and referring safeguarding concerns in line with Derbyshire’s Thresholds of Need policy.

Be able to contribute in TAF, CIN and CP meetings, compiling reports and making recommendations.

To ensure that care is of the highest standard and delivered using evidence based interventions, care pathways and Chesterfield Policies and Procedures.

To present a professional image and promote a positive image of CAMHS, and the Trust to service users, carers and the community as a whole.

CAMHS is a friendly and supportive team which consists of a number of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, all skilled in working with children and young people with mental health issues. There are a number of different teams within the service and this post will require you to rotate though all of them.

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.

This career opportunity will allow you to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, which we are willing and happy to support through continued professional development.

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.