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Job summary

Main area
CAMHS
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
166-FC-6687391
Employer
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Town
Chesterfield
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/11/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

CAMHS Specialist Community Advisor

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

Are you a committed and enthusiastic clinician, and would you like to work in a well led and respected multi-disciplinary CAMH service? We have a vacancy in our CAMHS Specialist Community Advisor Team and you could be just who we are looking for!

The role of the CAMHS Specialist Community Advisor is to provide a link between universal first contact services for children and families, such as Schools, Children’s Services, Primary care, voluntary sector and Specialist CAMHS.

You will be a Registered Nurse, Social Worker or equivalent with experience of working in a role within or closely related to CAMHS. You will be expected to work independently to develop working relationships with a range of professionals and partner agencies, within an assigned geographical area and act as a representative of the wider CAMHS service.

As a member of the CAMHS service, you will be required to work and be based between CAMHS and various community locations ; a car driver with a full current licence & own transport is therefore essential.

Main duties of the job

The main aim of the service is to provide consultations to professionals about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people; to help identify children and who need help at the earliest possible point; provide specialist advice; and if necessary help facilitate access to the most appropriate source of support.

Delivering training workshops to professionals and parents is part of the role and so experience in this area would be desirable.

Working for our organisation

Supporting our young people during a difficult time in their lives, can be hugely rewarding: it also requires a special sort of person – caring, respectful, empathetic, resilient, an excellent communicator.  If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

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.   If you’re keen to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, come and talk to us about how we could support that.

Our CAMHS team covers the North Derbyshire area from our 2 bases in Buxton and Chesterfield and provide a service predominantly Monday – Friday between 9am – 5pm. There will be some flexibility to allow for the delivery of some early evening training workshops on occasions. Our service has embraced flexible and remote working.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional, registered qualification in MH, SW, Therapy

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Work with children & families including work with child mental health needs

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a multi agency setting offering consultation & liaison.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerInvesting in VolunteersArmed Forces Covenant Bronze Award

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sam Jones
Job title
SCA Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07900 243578