CAMHS Community Nurse

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS Enhanced Treatment Service as a Band 5 Community Nurse for a 12 month Secondment for maternity cover. This role would be suitable for a band 5 nurse who would like to learn and get experience working in a community setting.

About the team: The Enhanced Treatment Service (ETS) is for young people aged 12-18 who are presenting with a serious mental illness. We offer an alternative pathway for young people who have been admitted for inpatient treatment, as well as offering a supported discharge package for young people leaving hospital.

We aim to reduce A&E presentations and hospital admissions and offer the least restrictive interventions to provide consistent access to rapid, effective interventions, support and recovery - including crisis services. This includes better use of resources and investing to develop more local, community-based services and support. The service has both an outreach, and community day service model.

This varied role offers excellent opportunities to gain experience and therapeutic skills in a variety of different settings.

The post will be based at the PEARS Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People (PYMCP) in Camberwell. We are looking to appoint someone who is confident, responsive and has a passion for young-person and family-centred improvements; you will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to young people's needs flexibly.

Main duties of the job

This role in ETS is a varied role which includes supporting CAMHS practitioners with case-coordination as part of a MDT care team, coordination of the day service, therapeutic group work, outreach work, delivering, reviewing and planning therapeutic interventions and risk management.

Please see below for more information and Job description and person specification attached.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification:

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse/ or Registered Children's Nurse/
• Nursing Degree
• NMC registered professional registration

Desirable

• Mentorship Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence-based practice.
• Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.

Desirable

• Experience of shift co-ordination.
• Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
• Experience of working with children or young people.

Knowledge /Skills

Essential

• Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, without close supervision.
• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
• Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
• Approachable and forms very effective working relationships with colleagues.
• Empathy for service users including individuals who have experienced mental health problems. (A/I)
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to fulfil all the requirements of the role (including physical)
• Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity. (A/I)
• Skills in developing and changing clinical practice
• Ability to build and maintain high standard of professional links and communication channels with a variety of professional agencies.

Desirable

• Skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.
• IT skills