Staff Nurse - CAMHS Mildred Creek Unit

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to work within our dynamic multidisciplinary team, we welcome applications from Registered Mental health Nurses and/or Learning Disability nurse backgrounds. Our model of working is based on the Therapeutic Milieu.

The Mildred Creak Unit is a children’s inpatient mental health unit, the Unit cares for young people aged 7 – 14 years old with a range of severe and complex mental health difficulties..

Supporting a structured routine for the young people offers containment to the family and young person, mirroring this we recognise the benefit a structured timetable offers to staff so in place we offer weekly meetings at 2pm, which include nurse led teaching, group discussion, MDT meetings, monthly team reflective meetings and a weekly facilitated nurse support meeting.

We believe that every interaction with a young person is an opportunity to be therapeutic. Recognising the impact of the work, alongside the weekly reflective group meetings we support monthly individual supervision. Offering greater autonomy to the nurses, provides young people with greater collaboration and empowerment opportunities in their treatment journey.

A team of senior nurses ensure that all staff feel supported and encourage development, this includes staff nurses from child and mental health backgrounds, experienced therapeutic care workers and healthcare assistants.

Main duties of the job

The role involves working as a member of the nursing team to provide care to the young people. You will facilitate their daily routines and attendance of the therapeutic timetable in a nurturing and supportive manner. The role includes various duties such as supporting young people to eat, helping young people with their physiotherapy programmes, providing a space for young people to talk about their feelings as well as clinical tasks such as administration of medication, nasogastric feeding, physical observations and the facilitation of therapeutic groups.

The role also involves aspects of housekeeping and admin.

• To work as a skilled member of the nursing team, to provide a high standard of holistic familycentred care to the children and families within the context of a CAMHS therapeutic milieu.
• To actively engage with young people and families, in order to facilitate recovery from theirindividual difficulties.
• To promote family centred care.
• To communicate effectively at all levels within the multi-disciplinary team.
• To be able to take charge of the ward in the absence of senior nursing staff following performancereview against the agreed KSF outline and progression through the first gateway (excludingintensive care wards).
• To be conversant with and demonstrate in practice the principles of the NHS Chief Nursing Officersvision for Compassion In Practice (NHS Commissioning Board 2012)

Detailed job description and main 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 documents please view the attachment/s below.