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Job summary

Main area
CAMHS
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
311-HYM622-24
Employer
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Riverside One,
Town
Rochdale
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/11/2024 23:59
Interview date
13/12/2024

Employer heading

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

(CAMHS) Team Leader - Single Point of Access

NHS AfC: Band 7

 

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Job overview

This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join Rochdale  CAMHS Single Point of Access Team (SPOA) and support the development of the CYPMH offer into our local communities. You will work in partnership with early help services and our local multi-agency safeguarding hubs to ensure that our referral pathways are accessible, delivered in true partnership and ensure children ,young people and families that need mental health advice and support can get what they need quickly and easily.

You will also lead and manage an established community based workforce, ensuring that they support the implementation of the Thrive model of care for Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health (CYPMH). You will help ensure that CAMHS Getting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment from CAMHS access it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity.

Main duties of the job

You will act as the first point of contact for professionals making a referral into Rochdales  Single Point of Access. 

Screening referrals and signposting to the wealth of internal and external service providers for children and young peoples mental health across the Borough. 

You will be responsible for the coordination and allocation of consultations  to Locality Mental Health Practitioner (LMHPs) ensuring a service is provided to professionals in a timely manner enabling young people to receive the right support, at the right time, from the right practitioners. 

Provide management and clinical supervision to the LMHPs within the service. 

Be instrumental in identifying gaps in service provision enabling these to be escalated to allow for service and system future planning across the borough. 

Attend panel meetings for various cohorts of young people with specific vulnerabilities such as youth offending service, cared for children panel etc.

Work alongside colleagues in Social Care, Health, Education and the Police to ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people with an identified mental health need in the borough. 

Working for our organisation

Children’s mental health and emotional well-being is a key priority locally and Rochdale  benefits from strong multi-agency networks and creative approaches to service delivery.  

We offer a robust supervision structure and development opportunities in terms of psychological therapies training within the trust and opportunities to access specialist training in line with your own and the team’s needs. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within our SPOA service. This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:

  • Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience.
  • Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP.
  • Good understanding and commitment to the CAMHS transformation agenda
  • Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence. 
  • Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details and contact us if you require any further information or wish to discuss the post further

 

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse – Mental Health with NMC registration/Social worker with SW registration
  • Short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Highly Developed Knowledge of mental health issues in young people
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation and National Policies in relation to children and young people.
  • Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability
  • Evidence of Post qualifying training courses / certificates

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions
  • Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs
  • Ability to develop a range of therapeutic activities across a range of settings.
  • Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs
  • Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere
  • Ability to act in consultation / supervision / training capacity with professionals
  • Ability to develop liaison / links and familiarity with other professional networks
  • Ability to prioritise key tasks, and targets for intervention.
  • Ability to evaluate service initiatives for effectiveness / outcome
  • Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries
  • Ability to keep accurate activity data for audit / evaluation.
  • Ability to develop and audit the effectiveness of protocols.
  • Ability to manage other staff to meet targets and objectives of the service
  • Ability to implement HR procedures as appropriate
  • Ability to use systems approach.
  • Ability to provide leadership for the service
  • Ability to manage and to work autonomously with case load.
  • Ability to work flexibly and innovatively.
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to operate with an unpredictable work pattern
  • Ability to work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and were individuals may be antagonistic / aggressive

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jennifer O'Neill
Job title
Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01706676000

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
Telephone
01617163181
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