Band 7 Specialist Nurse Practitioner - CAMHS Service

​Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a

Locum Band 7 Specialist Nurse Practitioner to join their CAMHS Team.

Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm

 Job Summary

The post holder will:

• To be based in the CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) you will be responsible for assessment and sign posting ensuring Children and Young People reach the most suitable pathway within the locally agreed time frames

• Functions of the post will include high quality assessments; formulation, intervention where appropriate and consultation

• Support integration of assessment where Children and Young People present with Mental Health / Emotional Well Being and there are also social contextual issues

•  Have an agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels;

•  Co-ordinate care for those children, young people and families on their caseload;

•  Manage risk within team, Directorate and Trust structures;

•  Work to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and within 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.

Key Result Areas

Clinical

1. To provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.

2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of 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. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.

5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans

6. To 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. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.

8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.

9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.

10. To 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. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.

12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and would like to find out more, please call 01322 282470. Alternatively, you can reach the recruitment team via e-mail at recruitment@westmeriarecruitment.co.uk

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