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SPOA CAMHS
Grade
NHS AFC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-CS-21486
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Swandean Hospital
Town
Worthing
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/07/2024 08:00

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SPOA Mental Health Practitioner - Incentives Apply

NHS AFC: Band 6

Welcome from our Chief Executive

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.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

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

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners to join the new Single Point of Access in West Sussex.

The SPOA is designed for children, young people, their families, carers and relevant professionals to ensure that they can access the most appropriate emotional wellbeing, mental health support and intervention which meets their needs at the earliest possible stage and with the minimum delay.

The SPOA aims:

  • An integrated aligned and co-ordinated service is in place
  • More CYP have access to appropriate mental health services first time
  • More CYP have positive experiences of care and support
  • Time taken to receive treatment and support is reduced
  • Improved data collection and evaluation of CYP’s outcomes

This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job:

  • Offer high quality screening of referrals, discussing with referrers as required and ensuring they receive an appropriate and clinically sound response.
  • To direct children and their families to the most appropriate service in order to meet their emotional and mental health needs.
  • The SPOA clinicians will also be required to undertake risk assessments, ensure appropriate signposting for referrals that do not meet the criteria for services within the SPOA, with clear written responses containing a rationale for the decision, liaise with agencies receiving referrals from SPOA, identify opportunities for support whilst waiting for the referral to be processed and respond to any queries or concerns from professionals / parents.
  • To decide on an appropriate course of action alongside other professionals involved, providing advice, support and knowledge of appropriate resources for the emotional well-being and mental health of children, young people and their carers.

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across West and East Sussex and Brighton & Hove, and for children and young people in Hampshire.

West Sussex CAMHS services build on CYP-IAPT learning. Users of our services help shape continuing service transformation with their lived experience.  

Supported by our Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs), we work to put research, innovation and learning into practice.  We offer a career, not just a job, in a team and a Trust committed to delivering the best possible care to the community and to supporting the wellbeing of our staff, who are our greatest asset.

Working in Sussex:

  • Travel easily between coast and stunning countryside
  • Easy access to Brighton, London, Gatwick and Heathrow

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Skills and experience in screening referrals is desirable.
  • Working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency SPOA team ensuring that referrals are screened swiftly and referrers are contacted and informed of referral outcomes.

Please refer to Job description for further responsibilities. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered professional Qualification
  • Evidence of post Registration Training
Desirable criteria
  • Completion of mentorship course or equivalent

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant post qualifying experience
  • Experience supervising staff and students
  • Knowledge of interventions specific to service area
  • Awareness of Trust Policy and Values
  • Knowledge of managing and working with people with complex needs
  • Able to effectively manage risks
  • Able to formulate individualised care plans
Desirable criteria
  • Lived experience of mental illness

Communication/interpersonal

Essential criteria
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Communication effectively with other parties (carers, relatives, other professionals etc
  • Work effectively with other services
  • Able to work to service objectives

Management/organisational

Essential criteria
  • To have a good knowledge of service objectives
  • Able to manage and delegate tasks
  • Able to lead clinical discussions
  • Provide supervision to staff
  • Work well within a team

Skills/values

Essential criteria
  • IT skills
  • Able to work well under pressure
  • Able to prioritise caseload
  • Able to deal with incidents effectively
  • Able to travel between sites
  • Awareness of human rights
  • Flexible and punctual
  • Non-judgemental

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
BRYDEN-PITT, Amanda
Job title
SPOA team leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
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Additional information

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