Job overview
Southwark CAMHS are looking to recruit to our community CAMHS service:
1. An experienced and motivated highly specialist ADHD Nurse Prescriber to lead on the ADHD pathway in our community
2. Independent and team working in both a clinical and managerial role.
3. Confident in your delivery of ADHD care including ADHD medication management and physical health assessments.
4. Excellent skills in organisation and forward thinking, show initiative, be adaptable and able to follow direction, and be a good team player with excellent communication skills.
5. Provide leadership on and contribute clinically to all aspects of the ADHD pathway including screening, assessment, psycho-education, medication management, behavioural management, care planning, risk assessment and management, and transition to adult services
Main duties of the job
6. Managing your own caseload of C&YP with ADHD, including more complex cases involving comorbid mental health and neuropsychiatric difficulties
7. Independent treatment initiation and review within your scope of practice. This involves assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating intervention(s) for young people in your care, including independent non-medical prescribing.
8. Liaising with medical colleagues, partner agencies (school; social care) and adult mental health professionals across a range of settings
9. Completing risk assessments and care plans
10. To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust guidelines
11. Managerial and leadership responsibilities
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more
than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
We have the most comprehensive range of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)intheUnitedKingdomwithabudgetofapproximately£47million.Ourservicesare renowned nationally and internationally, with clinical practice that thrives on our close links withtheInstituteofPsychiatry,PsychologyandNeuroscience,King’sCollegeLondonandthe Medical Research Council Child Psychiatry Unit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
JobPurpose:
-Clinically, the post holder will lead a highly specialist service for children and young people withADHDandco-morbidmentalhealthdifficulties,contributingtospecialistassessment& management and leading on co- ordinating the Nurse-led medication review clinics within the service, including independent non-medical prescribing.
-Tomanageacaseload,providingtheanalysisofcomplexinformationtodeterminethe planning and management of assessment and treatment to C&YP with ADHD and comorbid mental health and neuropsychiatric difficulties.
-To provide expertise in this highly specialist clinical area and to offer advice and consultationonclientscaretoothermembersoftheteam,inrelationtotheareaof expertise.
-TooffertraininginassessmentandinterventionsforCYPwithADHDtoCAMHSandother professional networks.
-Toliaisewithmedicalcolleague,partneragenciesandadultmentalhealthprofessionals across a range of settings.
-To work autonomouslywithin professional practice guidelines and Trustguidelines. -To contribute to policy and service development, undertake research, service evaluation andauditforownteam/serviceandtocontributetothetrainingoftheclinicalteamand others.
-Toworkeffectivelyasamemberofamulti-disciplinaryteam.
-CommunicationsandWorkingRelationships:
Team manager,Consultant staff, Team membersadministrators,professionals andother agenciesworkingwithchildrenandtheirfamiliesinhealth,education,socialservicesand the voluntary sector, members of relevant profession networks;
MedicalstaffatCUHIoPteamBoroughmanagerOtherSLaMStaffandprofessionalsworking with the child including the GP Trust named nurse for Safeguarding Researchers/
Educators,Trainers
AsnecessaryLeadClinician andHeadofNursing
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
12. First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) / with related CAMHS experience and MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post-registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health including evidence of clinical, audit and/or research presentations at local and national CAMHS events and evidence of publication of articles or the production of strategic reports which have advanced CAMHS.
13. Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration
14. All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body e.g. the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social care council, Health professional's council or applicable psychological or psychotherapies body.
Desirable criteria
15. Additional, recognised therapeutic qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
16. Graduate qualification related to or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio including experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment with children and young people with mental health difficulties, emotional, behavioural and relational problems and their families, including looked after children.
17. Experience of managing complex and high risk cases.
18. Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of other staff
19. Experience of providing teaching and training to multidisciplinary groups. Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
20. Experience of developing and carrying out research projects with children and young people.
21. Experience of supervision of other staff. Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision and appraisal.
22. Experience of multi-agency collaboration and integrated working.
Desirable criteria
23. Significant experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
24. Has completed a minimum of two years post qualification CPD to develop clinical and/or research skills relevant to specialist area as agreed in the Personal Development Plan.
25. Ability to supervise student nurses having completed relevant training.
26. Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to children, young people, families and colleagues.
27. Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems involving a child’s or young person’s mental health issues, family relationships or future placement, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
28. Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
29. Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning
30. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and/or challenging behaviour.
31. Ability to use QI methodology
32. Well developed IT skills including data entry and analysis of research
33. Well-developed consultation skills to work with MDT and or other professional groups
Desirable criteria
34. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings