Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health- Child and Adolescent
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-MCYPF-6441800
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newtown Centre
- Town
- Huntingdon
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our friendly, dedicated, and supportive team.
The CAMHS Eating Disorders Service provides an outpatient service offering evidence-based treatment approaches to children and young people up to the age of 18 and their families / carers. We offer support county-wide support and have clinics based in Peterborough, Huntingdon and Cambridge. We work closely with other agencies and continue to strengthen our links with the local acute paediatric services.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a clinical leader who ensures that the highest standards of evidenced based nursing care are provided. The post holder will provide inspirational specialist nursing leadership within the multi-disciplinary team, including specialist assessments and nursing interventions to service users.
This post is central to the delivery of clinically based support, education, training and development of the team. Working in partnership with the Team Manager and Clinical Lead the post holder will develop and embed evidence based clinical nursing practice within the team through implementation and facilitation of clinically based education, training and skills development for nurses.
The CNS is a clinical specialist in Child and Adolescent mental health and is knowledgeable and skilled in managing groups and teams. The main part of this role is to support children and young people in the community to receive treatment for eating disorders. The CNS will have their own area of clinical skill/interest and will provide direct clinical work within the service.
There will also be liaison work with the Tier 4 inpatient units and the paediatric wards across the county. This role will help to support the implementation and have a role in managing the medical monitoring within the service.
The CNS will work collaboratively with the leadership team and MDT to achieve service and wider objectives
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the multi-disciplinary team and the therapeutic structure
2. To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi-disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the nursing contribution to the process. To ensure that the multi-disciplinary team provide accurate and high-quality patient records
3. Assist in meeting the required standards for the Access and Waiting Times through collaboration with the leadership team and other forums to support the delivery of appropriate risk assessment, risk management, care planning and treatment intervention
4. Responsibility for overseeing physical health equipment and resources and maintaining robust physical risk management plans for service users
5. To be part of the wider CAMHS on call service, providing crisis support for service users at weekends on the paediatric wards, which is on a rota basis.
6. To contribute to staff supervision, both group and individual
7. To support the team to improve their understanding of the client group.
8. To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence-based intervention e.g. FT-AN, FT-BN, CBT-E etc.
9. To participate and support in delivering parent/ carer and siblings psycho-education groups
10. To participate in research and audit in the clinical field
11. To encourage and develop service user and carer involvement
12. To support the Directorate with the investigation process and learning lessons from serious incidents and complaints
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Mental Health or Registered Nurse Paediatric.
- Completion of Mentorship Course or intention to complete.
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Qualification in a therapy i.e. CBT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising staff, clinically
- Extensive experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care pathway
- Extensive experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non- statutory teams and agencies
- Extensive experience of working within the CPA process
- Experience of contributing to safeguarding children processes i.e. making referrals, attendance of child protection conferences.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualifying experience of working with eating disorders
- Experience of leading nursing staff or teams in practice improvement
- Experience of working In Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced Clinical Skills in: assessment, planning and therapeutic intervention
- Provision of specialist nursing advice in relation to care delivery
- Able to establish and maintain communication with individuals, families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters
- Develop own skills and knowledge and impart information to others to facilitate their development
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
Desirable criteria
- Physical Skills: Ability to use manual handling techniques
- Ability to use physical intervention techniques
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Advanced specialist knowledge of Nursing assessment, intervention and practice models relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of NICE guidance and other National guidance relevant to delivery of care and safe nursing practice
- Knowledge of MH Act, Children’s Act.
- Excellent understanding of the NMC Code and its application in practice
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Williams
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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