CAMHS Development Mental Health Practitioner or Staff Nurse

CAMHS Development Mental Health Practitioner or Staff Nurse Band 5

Main area Mental Health Nurses Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Full & Part time hours available) Job ref 270-TG549-ACS

Site Berrywood Hospital Town Northampton Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 12/12/:00

Job overview

Development role

CAMHS Crisis and IOT Mental Health Practitioners make a difference every day to the lives of the young people they care for. We are so proud of our workforce, who provide increasingly complex care for children and young people and their families.

We are looking for Registered Mental Health Nurses or Registered Learning Disability Nurses with a passion for high quality care to work within our CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team or CAMHS Crisis Team. Our current inpatient units are The Sett & The Burrows. These teams offer Crisis interventions and admission avoidance for children and young people.

This is a unique opportunity to complete the CAMHS Development Programme, over 12-18 months with progression to B6 Post on completion and subject to avaialability. You will have an allocated Practice Development Practitioner to support you with completing your competency package. You will be based on your Core site (CAMHS IOT or Crisis) 3 days per week and you will be out on placement across CAMHS Services on a 2 day rotation.

Main duties of the job

Working life

As a CAMHS Development Nurse, you will

• Develop and maintaining therapeutic relationships with patients within appropriate professional boundaries
• Supporting young people with therapeutic/treatment programs
• Be professionally accountable for the delivery of care
• Utilise technology to enable you to update records
• You will have an allocated Clinical Practice Practitioner to support you to complete the competency package.
• You will have access to highly specialist placement areas to get an understanding of the wider specialist CAMHS and LD Services we offer in NHFT.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the 'About You' Section of the document.

Person specification QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

• Pin pending if not already qualified

attributes

• good communication skills evidenced in the application
• able to work collaboratively within a team structure
• must be able to undertake breakaway and low level interventions
• knowledge of System1
• evidence in application of positive attitude to mental health
• evidenced in application that they are self motivated and can work under pressure

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly, the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK ()

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Marie James Job title Matron Email address

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