CAMHS SPA Family Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 clinician to join Nottinghamshire CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) Service. We are seeking a clinician committed to working within an innovative, dynamic, and growing multi-disciplinary Community CAMHS Service. The children & young people who access our services present with a wide range of emotional and mental health difficulties ranging from mild to severe.

You would be joining an established, supportive, and hardworking team who are passionate about improving the outcomes for the children, young people, and their families/carers. We are looking for a caring, approachable, and confident clinician, who can work independently and under support from the senior clinical team around screening, triaging referrals, gathering additional information, networking, liaising, contributing to MDTs and leading on development areas within the specific role. You will be required to work as part of a team, autonomously, flexibly and within professional boundaries and Trust values to provide a holistic approach and within the THRIVE model of care.

Main duties of the job

Aims of CAMHS SPA

SPA provides a single point of access for referrals into CAMHS for children and young people who have a Nottinghamshire based GP. The service provides a safe, accountable, and governed process for receiving professional and self-referrals, as well as screening and triaging new referrals to obtain additional contextual informtaion around mental health presentations. In addition, you will need to identify any risk factors and provide minimising risk advice, psychoeducational support and prompt decision making to identify the most appropriate service to meet the presenting needs at the given time. Thereby, enabling, facilitating and recommending the right offer, the right service, at the right time to meet the emotional and mental health presenting needs. This requires close working relationships and understanding of universal services within Nottinghamshire, as well as the specialist CAMHS provision, to enable informed decision making.

Daily structures are in place to meet the demands of SPA through task allocation meetings, multi-disciplinary meetings, referral meetings, as well as designated allocated time within the working day to carry out triage calls and others functionalities of the SPA service.

There is an expectation that the successful applicant will access clinical, managerial, and safeguarding supervision and attend complex case discussions, peer support sessions and share knowledge and training with colleagues within the team.

About us

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire’s biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Person Specification

Values & behaviours

Essential

  • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
  • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation.

Physical Requirements

Essential

  • Able to undertake training in the management of violence reduction, for example Breakaway training. Has the ability to perform the full range of professional duties.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent or relevant CAMHS experience and willingness to undertake additional training.
  • Willingness to undertake education and training that will enhance service delivery.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of different models of therapy e.g., CBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, solution focused therapy

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with young people presenting with a wide range of different emotional & mental health needs.
  • Proven ability to engage and develop therapeutic relationships with children, young people, and their families.
  • Experience of Multi agency & multi-disciplinary working.
  • Ability to maintain accurate, contemporaneous case records in line with Trust policies and procedure.
  • Able to provide harm minimization advise under guidance of the band 6 CAMHS SPA Practitioners.

Desirable

  • Experience in the meaningful use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMS) in clinical practice.
  • Community experience
  • Experience in delivering group interventions/treatments.
  • Experience in providing evidence-based treatments and interventions to children, young people, and their families/carers.
  • Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions under supervision.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Awareness of legislation, policy and guidance relating to Children and young people and emotional and mental health.
  • Knowledge of and commitment to anti discriminatory/ anti oppressive practice and equal opportunity.
  • Knowledge of child and adult safeguarding.
  • Knowledge and experience of managing own time well and ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
  • Knowledge of extended service and ability to link in with these services.

Desirable

  • Knowledge and application of behaviour programmes and support for parents of children with emotional health problems.

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work as part of a team/ good interpersonal skills.
  • Good written/oral communication skills.
  • Effective time management and organisational skills.
  • IT skills
  • Communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and other agencies using appropriate language, sensitivity and skills which acknowledge differences and diversity.
  • Good telephone skills.

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
  • A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 12 November 2024

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