Mental Health Nurse Practitioner- Extended Hope

Job overview

Extended Hope is a support service for young people in mental health crisis in Surrey. It is based in a small children's home in Redhill but covers the entire County. This home provides a short-break service for up to two children who experience social, emotional and mental health difficulties. It is operated by Surrey County Council and the local NHS trust. Other interventions provided include after hours contact by arrangement for young people and families and some in-reach to acute hospitals when there are admissions for mental health concerns.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include the assessment of, and support for, children in mental health crisis and assisting local care networks to effectively plan and execute intervention plans. Other focus areas are concentrated on being an impactful member of the team (along with Residential Support Workers) providing direct care for young people who are staying in the house during respite breaks.

It is important that the post holder has access to a vehicle with business insurance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Purpose

• Report to the Manager of Extended Hope and provide leadership in the development and delivery of service.
• To provide timely assessment of young people who present in mental health and social care crisis within the acute hospitals, Health Based Place of Safety (HBPoS) or other community spaces across surrey. Young people may present with deliberate self-harm behaviour, suicidal ideas, suicide attempts, family breakdowns, complex family dynamics, breakdown of adoption, foster and children home placements. Assessments of the above presentations with appropriate signposting, care planning, safety planning, risk formulation/management & community planning applied.
• To work collaboratively with the Crisis pathway provision within CYPS and Social care and offer community-based assessments with emergency services when there could be a possibility of supporting young people in their communities as an alternative to being placed on a section of the Mental Health Act (MHA) or removed to a place of safety.
• To provide support, advice and education to the Emergency Departments, Paediatric Wards or HBPoS to build knowledge and skills of staff within these settings in the care and treatment of young people. Our hospital colleagues will be involved in care provision and planning throughout any Paediatric or HBPoS inpatient journey.
• To work closely with the CYPS Crisis Pathway to provide a streamlined response to meet the needs of young people and their family/carers. This includes the Crisis Intervention Team, Paediatric Liaison Service, Hope Service/Hope Day Programme, Adolescent Team, Childrens Crisis Service (CCS provision SCC) Youth Workers and the Emergency Duty Team (EDT).
• To be part of the Mindworks provision within Surrey aiming to deliver a Thrive approach to care and treatment. This is a partnership between CYPS (formally known as CAMHS) and the Alliance partners.

Please see the job description document for more information on key responsibilities

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.