This post is based in Tameside CAMHS
Pennine Care are proud to be developing our clinical offer for Cared For Children and Care Leavers, in conjunction with our local authority partners and colleagues across the Greater Manchester area. We aspire to provide our cared for children with high quality, trauma-informed services, and reduce the disadvantages faced by children when moving between boroughs.
Our borough based Senior Mental Health Practitioners will each be supported by a Specialist Principal Clinical Psychologist, and have close links with their local CAMHS team. They will join the wider Cared For and Care Leavers clinical team across the five boroughs of the Pennine Care footprint, led by Consultant Clinical Psychologists, with access to specialist expertise from across the CAMHS clinical hub, including Speech and Language Therapy expertise and DDP specialist supervision.
This is an exciting time to join the Cared For and Care Leavers Pathway, as we develop our shared service culture and refine our clinical offer to support the mental health and wellbeing needs of our cared for children and their carers. We are seeking passionate and experienced CAMHS nurses and social workers who are ready to develop their specialist skills as Senior Mental Health Practitioners for this vulnerable group.
Our post-holders will provide highly specialist advice and consultation to social workers and other professionals around the needs of children in care; will facilitate direct and indirect assessments and therapeutic interventions with cared for children and their parents or carers (including foster carers and family and friends carers), support the development and delivery of training and reflective practice and facilitate the clinical supervision of other professionals to undertake therapeutic interventions. Relevant training and CPD opportunities will be considered to facilitate aspects of the role and service provision. The support, development and well-being of our workforce are the foundations on which we continue to develop services to ensure children and young people receive optimal care.
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical
- To ensure high quality and specialist psychological assessment of the children and families involved in the service. This will be based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews.
- To manage and if appropriate to clinically supervise CAMHS practitioners in managing their own caseloads
- To be responsible for and manage a defined caseload and undertake key-worker responsibilities within the caseload, making autonomous decisions concerning service delivery, risk management, referrals to other agencies and discharge.
- To make independent clinical decisions about the appropriate therapeutic interventions for each young person and/or families, in accordance with individualassessed need and formulation and to support access to/provide this intervention, including those young people with learning difficulties.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically informed plans.
- To work with families/carers of young people experiencing mental health difficulties.
- To provide consultation to support the provision of a high standard of mental health support to children and families from other professionals.
- To identify and develop strategies to manage risks to the young person and others in line with Pennine Care procedures and protocols.
- To liaise closely with a wide range of agencies regarding individual care packages, to advise on risk management and to promote awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health issues within these agencies.
- To use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties.
- To partake in the clinical triage of referrals into service and respond accordingly.To provide/delegate managerial and clinical supervision to workers within the CAMHS service
- To contribute to peer supervision and peer review of cases and in conjunction with the CAMHS team to ensure that own supervision needs are met.
- To support other agencies working with young people i.e. to facilitate their ability to support presenting mental health needs in children and young people.
- To provide consultation and training on a wide range of children’s emotional health and well-being issues, with specific consideration of the needs of the Cared for Children Population, to professionals from a range of services including GP’s, Children’s Social Care and Primary Care Services, Adult Mental Health Services, Youth Offending Services and Education Services.
- To engage in/deliver managerial and clinical supervision, including with appropriate consent, recording and reviewing of live clinical work.
- To participate in the emergency and duty rota in CAMHS.
- Ensure collection of relevant information required by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.
- To routinely monitor effectiveness of clinical work by use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs) and where outcomes are not improving for children and families to engage in clinical review via peer review meetings and supervision.
- To carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations,
For further details please see job description in the main application form.
