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CAHMS Specialist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 February 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE18 3RG |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6933897/277-6933897-CYP |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health and/or learning disabilities nurse/social worker to join the Greenwich CAMHS Learning Disability & Neurodevelopmental.
The post holder will be within the LDND pathway in Greenwich CAMHS, and will provide high quality specialist assessments, consultations, and therapeutic interventions, ensuring both the physical and psychological wellbeing of the service users are maintained through a range of physical health interventions in accordance with the Children & Young People’s Mental Health principles (Formerly CYP-IAPT).
The post holder will provide outreach support for Children & Young People experiencing a broad range of severe, complex, pervasive, and persistent mental health difficulties. They will work both within specialist schools and the within the LDND CAMHS team providing training, assessment and interventions for children and young people with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Coordinate and deliver individualised care packages/ programmes for CYP and their families and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy
Develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with young people and their families/carers.
Assess and plan care for CYP in a variety of settings, conducting risk assessments and formulating safety plans.
To liaise with the young person’s professional network, keeping them informed of developments, changes in risk status and promoting multi agency collaboration. Liaison with Children’s Specialist Services, Educational services, independent sector mental health providers, counsellors and any other professional related to the childcare.
To be an active part of the GCAMHS duty rota, conducting a holistic nursing assessment and developing risk management plans in collaboration with CYP and their families.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Management responsibilities
• To record information on RiO, ensuring effective documentation of patient care is consistent with Trust standards.
• To implement and contribute to policy and service development as appropriate.
• To participate in the recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal and development of staff, and to conduct formal and informal supervision of trainee nurses.
• To ensure that work is in keeping with both the Service and Trust policies and protocols.
• To collect and process relevant statistical data as required by the service.
• To take responsibility as agreed with the line manager and the service manager for the training and personal development of junior nursing staff.
• To be clinically accountable to CAMHS consultant nurse through line manager.
• To represent CAMHS and nursing on Directorate and Trust committees as required and to be able to effectively communicate information relevant to CAMHS.
Leadership
• To take responsibility as agreed with the line manager and the service manager for the training and personal development of junior staff.
• Provide liaison and consultation to local services on specialist nursing interventions delivered in the team.
• Take responsibility as agreed with line manager and operational manager for the training and personal development of junior staff.
• Provide liaison and consultation to local specialist schools and services on specialist nursing interventions delivered by the LDNA team.
Clinical
• To demonstrate the ability to develop specialist programmes of care for children and young people, and their families in accordance with Trust and national standards, policies and guidelines and appropriate professional codes of conduct.
• To take case management responsibilities when appropriate in clinical meetings, giving clear clinical advice with regard to assessment, Risk Assessment, formulation and treatment of identified clients.
• To demonstrate the ability to teach in informal and formal settings, e.g. carers at home, students on specialist placement
• To respond to the needs of clients and their carers in an honest, non- judgemental and open manner, this respects the rights of individuals and groups.
• To have an up to date knowledge of appropriate medication and it’s management and to be able to assess and give appropriate feedback with regard to possible side effects
• To have up to date knowledge of medicines management, wound care and physical health monitoring.
• To understand the rights of clients and carers and to assist them in exercising those rights, where appropriate.
• To undertake Carers assessments and devise appropriate care plans.
• To have knowledge of appropriate legislation and it’s relevance to the specialist area
• To take responsibility for the decision to discharge clients from care when agreed treatment programmes have been completed.
• To take responsibility to record own supervision in clinical records or in supervision records in order to be able to reflect on the supervision process.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jan 2025
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