Specialist Nurse | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 6AP |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6337093/310-CYPF-6151408-A |
Summary
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 7 Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse to join our Neurodevelopmental Team.
This post is to provide an enhanced service of mental health aftercare to support the return of a young person from an inpatient setting to a specialist home in the local area. The successful applicant will act as care coordinator and provide advice, support and guidance to an independent care provider in the specialist home for a young person with LD, Autism and challenging behaviours. In addition, the post holder will maintain links between the CAMHS team and external agencies and the young person’s family.
The post holder will be supported by the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS Team and our LD Consultant Psychiatrist. The team is a multidisciplinary team and we work with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability and provide assessment and treatment for Autism and ADHD. The team provides mental health assessments of young people with a neurodevelopmental disorder and also psychological therapies for co-morbid mental health disorders.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team and work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times and to work within the young person’s home alongside the care provider for the majority of the commissioned hours.
In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.
If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a multidisciplinary team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health issues, then we want to hear from you.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
• The specialist nurse is a clinical specialist in Learning Disability (LD/ID) and/or Mental Health and has an excellent understanding and working knowledge of Child and Adolescent mental health.
• The role is to provide an enhanced service of mental health support for the young person in the run up to discharge and until the young person is fully transitioned and the enhanced service is no longer deemed necessary by the MDT.
• The aim of the Enhanced service is to provide an intensive mental health aftercare package to a youngster to ensure their successful transition from hospital to home and to reduce the risk of placement breakdown and/or readmission to hospital due to their mental health and learning disability needs.
• The main part of this role is to support staff in a young person’s specialist home to ensure the young person receives appropriate care to ensure a good standard of emotional health and wellbeing is maintained. To provide support to the care team to help them understand and work with the young person flexibly to meet their needs whilst recognising least restrictive principles.
• The clinician will undertake a risk assessment of the young person’s mental health and provide mental health risk management advice and regularly review the risk assessment relating to any mental health needs.
• The post holder will be a specialist nurse who ensures that the highest standards of evidenced based nursing care are provided. The post holder will provide inspirational specialist nursing care and support a multi-agency team to provide the best care to the young person.
• The post holder will act as a care coordinator and maintain links between the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service multi-disciplinary team and external agencies and the young person’s family.
• The specialist nurse will work collaboratively with the Neurodevelopmental team and MDT and provide specialist assessments and nursing interventions to the service user as deemed appropriate by the CAMHS multidisciplinary team.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Jun 2024