Welcome from our Chief Executive - Samantha Allen

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Samantha Allen

Chief Executive

Job overview

The New Forest CAMHS team is seeking to recruit dynamic and innovative Band 6 Community Nurses (all cohorts with relevant experience)or Mental Health Practitioners (Occupational Therapist or Social Workers) to join ourexperiencedand highly motivated team to work with children, young people and their families presenting with significant mental health disorders who have been accepted into the service.

Are you an established CAMHS practitioner ready to take the next step in your career, alternatively are you a community nurse or MHP in a care coordinator role working within another mental health sector, who is interested in a rewarding career within CAMHS. Either way, if you enjoy being a part of a team, are creative and want to make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people then we would be delighted to hear from you.

This post offers a Golden Hello, or a Relocation package up to a maximum of £2000. (pro rata applies and subject to terms and conditions. Please see attached Protocol document).

Main duties of the job

You will use your specialist knowledge and skills to join the multidisciplinary team to undertake high quality mental health and clinical risk assessments and deliver therapeutic evidenced based interventions both individually and as a group facilitator, alongside supporting neurodevelopmental assessments and monitoring within ADHD clinics. You will Care Coordinate a caseload, to offer therapeutic engagement to stabilise acute presentations, liaise with professional networks to improve outcomes and access to mental health care.

You will be confident in managing duty calls into service and be competent to complete prioritised reviews and liaise and engage with clinicians from other teams within Hampshire CAMHS, as well as partner agencies, including children services and schools to encourage collaborative working to provide support around a child or young person.

This role also holds the expectation to supervise junior staff and act as a practice supervisor or assessor to students on placement with us.

Working for our organisation

Hampshire CAMHS is undergoing expansion due to an increased £6.6 million investment from commissioners. This has led to many new opportunitiesfor current staff across the service which has created some vacancies within the locality-based specialistCAMHS teams.

Hampshire CAMHS values the contribution of all staff, and this is equally true within the New Forest Team. You will be supported by a passionate and experienced leadership team, with clear and robust structures of supervision and governance which offer assurance for safe and effective practice.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation is supportive of clinician's professional development and provides access to quality training opportunities. The service is supportive and committed to encouraging clinicians to prioritise their wellbeing to promote and maintain good work-life balance.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification and consider all these elements when completing your application.

We look forward to hearing from you

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria

• Significant post qualifying experience in the relevant care group
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Previous experience of working in the community

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.