Job summary
Employer heading
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.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sam Jones
- Job title
- SCA Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07900 243578
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