Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding and growing Kingston & Richmond CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) Service. We are looking for a committed CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested in wider service development initiatives.
Qualifications and Experience
* Registered Mental Health Nurse registered with the NMC.
* Experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings.
* Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency professionals.
* The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community.
* The ability to adapt to the fast-paced nature of SPA work, with strong IT and computer recording skills to navigate the various CAMHS and local authority IT systems.
* Knowledge and skills in risk assessment, management and safeguarding.
* Capability to deliver a range of evidence‑based interventions.
Key Responsibilities
The post holder will:
* Assist with assessment and sign‑posting to ensure children and young people reach the most suitable pathway within agreed time frames.
* Conduct high quality assessments, formulation, intervention where appropriate and consultation.
* Support the integration of assessment for children and young people who present with mental health and emotional wellbeing issues, including social contextual factors.
* Maintain an agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels.
* Co‑ordinate care for children, young people and families on their caseload.
* Manage risk within the team, Directorate and Trust structures.
* Work in accordance with professional and ethical guidelines and the framework of Directorate and Trust policies and procedures.
* Use screening and outcome measures in clinically meaningful ways to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and seek feedback about user experience.
Detailed Responsibilities
1. Provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service, using complex data from multiple sources including psychological and self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. Formulate and implement plans for evidence‑based interventions, using appropriate conceptual frameworks and methods that have evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. Implement a range of psychotherapeutic interventions, individually and in synthesis, maintaining provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. Provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers.
7. Contribute to and/or use evidence‑based, integrated working tools and processes, ensuring young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and coordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
8. Undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, providing information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
10. Monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. Maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. Demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
Benefits
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti‑racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together and are committed to co‑producing services with local communities.
Location
This post will be based at Tolworth Hospital.
Employment Conditions
Unless expressly stated in the job advert, this role is not subject to sponsorship. All offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
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