Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: 19 hrs
- Hours
- Part time - 19 hours per week
- Job ref
- 346-DDC-070-24
- Employer
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Viscount House
- Town
- Stockton on Tees
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/08/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Job overview
The Clinical Specialist will have responsibility for providing clinical leadership to colleagues across the local ‘place-based’ community system in the assessment, treatment, and management of people with complex needs in a designated specialty.
Providing specialist mental health assessment and clinically proven, evidence-based interventions to the specified client group with a range of complex mental health problems.
The Clinical Specialist will offer advice and consultation regarding the management of the specified client group to colleagues from across the local community system and other agencies, as necessary. It is expected that the post holder will spend 80% or more of their time in the delivery of direct/indirect clinical care. The post holder will be expected to support the leadership group in local implementation of the Community
Mental Health Transformation Programme and future systems change resulting from this work where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will take a lead role in the development of clinical services
for people accessing the local community place-based system and will be
a resource available for colleagues of all disciplines within the multidisciplinary team.
To provide autonomously specialist mental health assessments of service users. The assessment will be based upon the appropriate use,
interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
including general practitioners, primary care team members, statutory and
voluntary sector rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with service users, carers, family members and others involved in the person’s care.
The post holder would be an essential member of the multi-disciplinary team and will be able to facilitate the co-ordination of care on a multi-disciplinary basis to the service user.
The post holder will provide expert mental health care and support to all
service users referred to the service providing evidence based mental health interventions.
The post holder will formulate plans of care and negotiate the implementation of such plans and the sharing of complex, sensitive, confidential and at times contentious information e.g., child protection issues, safeguarding vulnerable adults etc.
Working for our organisation
We are looking to recruit an experienced Clinical Specialist, part time (19 hours) to join our Child in our Care Team based at Viscount House in Stockton.
The successful applicants will be enthusiastic, motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will have extensive knowledge of the specified client group
Efficiently and effectively ensure the care co-ordination of a caseload.
To contribute directly and indirectly to improving the understanding of
mental health to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all
settings and agencies serving the patient group.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual
patients and to provide advice to other professionals and
biopsychosocial aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,
therapy and discharge of patients accessing the specialist support
service. In line with best practice.
To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to
other professionals contributing directly to diagnostic assessment,
formulation, and intervention plan.
The post holder will maintain high quality record keeping standards in
line with the Trust’s Record Keeping Guidelines, ensuring that
confidentiality is maintained at all times.
Recognise and respect the cultural and spiritual needs of others.
Co-ordinate clinical interventions regarding issues such as self-harm
and aggression which may result in emotional stress.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential criteria
- Registration with relevant professional body. (e.g. NMC, GMC, HCPC, Social Work-England)
- For nursing professions – Recognised Practice Supervisor and /or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent
- And Trained in providing clinical supervision
- For other professions – evidence of training in clinical supervision of other staff and able to demonstrate competence in this area of practice in clinical supervision of other staff and/or students/ trainees.
- All professions - Postgraduate diploma (or above) in a subject relevant to the area of practice or be willing to work towards and achieve within 2 years
- Within the first year of being in post hold a recognised advanced clinical qualification or Masters level credits e.g., Intermediate Systemic Family Therapy/Post Grad diploma in CBT/British Isles Dialectical Behaviour Therapy /NMP e.g. dysphagia, posture, autism assessment, rebound, social prescribing, sensory processing, Approved Mental Health Professional, Practice Educator (level 3 Independent Prescriber) * Note any other advanced qualification/masters credits not listed here as an example, must be clearly evidenced and listed as “advanced qualification or masters credits” - within the individuals application form
- And have Equivalent clinical experience to that of a Post Grad Diploma/master’s level such as working as a band 6 (or above) in relevant clinical area with significant experience (see below under experience), together with evidence of relevant CPD
- Experience required - Substantial clinical experience of working in relevant specialist area in collaboration with service users, families and relevant others or transferable experience of similar settings and willing to gain knowledge within first 12 months.
- Experience of assessing and managing risk (harm to self, others and safeguarding)
- Substantial experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Involvement in quality improvement activities
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice, regionally and nationally
- Experience of application of relevant legislation (i.e., Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act) in practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alma Burns
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03000132000
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