Job overview

Are you looking for a new and exciting career working within CAMHS? Come join our innovative team and get the support you need to develop your career, as we offer an exciting opportunity to train at Band 5 with uplift to Band 6 within 12/18 months. These roles would be particularly suitable for newly qualified Nurses/Practitioners.

CAMHS Derbyshire is looking to appoint committed Band 5 practitioners with a passion for working with children and young people and the ability to work across Chesterfield and North Derbyshire teams.

Successful candidates will commence on a specific learning pathway, offering training and support in core competencies required to work with moderate to severe presentations. The role will involve a rotation to allow you to experience all specialist areas within CAMHS, providing opportunities, which will include; mental health and risk assessments, initial contact assessments and will require you to hold and manage your own caseload.  These roles are based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Buxton Health Centre.

Main duties of the job

To be able to work flexibly across all areas of the service with an enthusiasm needed to engage a wide range of diverse and complex presentations, managing high emotion and crisis as they occur.

To be able to manage your own case load, working towards becoming an autonomous practitioner.

To become confident in developing robust care and safety plans, including individual goals with the children and young people you assess.

To be able to work face to face, via telephone and video.

To feel confident in addressing and referring safeguarding concerns in line with Derbyshire’s Thresholds of Need policy.

Be able to contribute in TAF, CIN and CP meetings, compiling reports and making recommendations.

To ensure that care is of the highest standard and delivered using evidence based interventions, care pathways and Chesterfield Policies and Procedures.

To present a professional image and promote a positive image of CAMHS, and the Trust to service users, carers and the community as a whole.

Working for our organisation

CAMHS is a friendly and supportive team which consists of a number of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, all skilled in working with children and young people with mental health issues. There are a number of different teams within the service and this post will require you to rotate though all of them.

Whilst you care for our young people and families, in turn we recognise the importance of caring for you – clinical supervision, career & personal development and health & wellbeing support are all core to our service.   

This career opportunity will allow you to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, which we are willing and happy to support through continued professional development.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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