Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Practitioner - Cherry Tree Cottage
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 367-CYP-8572
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cherry Tree Farm Children’s Residential Home New Farm, Weston Way Baldock SG7 6ER
- Town
- Baldock
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary, min £1,192 - max £2,011
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Practitioner Band 5-6 Development Post
Band 5
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Band 6 or band 5 – 6 Development post available- CAMHS Practitioner - Cherry Tree Cottage
Cherry Tree Cottage Specialist Children’s home
Brand new initiative with Social Care and Health together
We are open to receive applications from various disciplines and backgrounds including Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Care, Therapy, and / or those with experience working with children and young people in care.
Are you passionate about getting it right for children and young people in care?
Do you want to be part of a unique short-term service to support children in mental health crisis, prevent their admission to psychiatric hospital or enable timely discharge from hospital and successfully move them on to a settled placement or back home with parents?
Do you want to be part of a Multidisciplinary team with integral Health, Social Care and Psychiatry expertise.
With innovation at its heart; we are looking to recruit a team who want to be fundamental in the success of this first of its kind service in Hertfordshire.
Cherry Tree Cottage is an Ofsted registered children’s home operated through an integrated health and social care staffing model (HPFT and HCC Social Services) to care for children looked after. The home provides 3 beds for children with mental health presentations who may be repeat attenders at A&E /S136 suite or at risk of /or have had admission to Tier 4 provision (psychiatric inpatient unit).
Main duties of the job
There is the opportunity to start as band 6 depending on experience.
Band 5-6 development post will include similar duties as the band 6 but you will not be a sole named practitioner for a young person and will be working alongside the band 6 practitioners, who will take responsibility for their allocated young person. The band 6 practitioners and the team leader will support you to learn the role and progress onto a band 6 CAMHS Practitioner.
This is an exciting opportunity to join this innovative service as a Band 5/6 clinician working alongside social care colleagues at Cherry Tree Cottage. As part of an MDT, the candidate will work collaboratively with the Registered Manager, Team Leader, HPFT Clinical Lead, Consultant Psychiatrist, and other clinicians in the team with the planning, development, provision and review of an excellent, service-user focused service providing crisis containment and therapeutic support to children and young people with social and co-morbid mental health difficulties.
The home uses the ARC theoretical framework (Attachment, Regulation and Competency) and Non-violent resistance interventions and ethos in the provision to create a warm and nurturing environment to enhance wellbeing of the CYP. Training is provided and all workers are expected to work within this framework. The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical and professional supervision of a Team Leader alongside the Registered Manager.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
- To undertake mental health assessment, risk assessment, care plan management and reviews for CYP with complex mental health and co-morbid social care needs.
- To undertake crisis containment work including therapeutically engaging activities for CYP admitted to the home for a limited time.
- To provide advice and consultation to other team members regarding the mental health care of CYP in the home.
- To provide good standards of reparative parenting for children and adolescents which safeguards and promotes their welfare by ensuring that the home meets the requirements of legislation, including the National Quality Standards for residential homes.
- To follow all HPFT and HCC policies and local procedures.
- Ensure that children and adolescents develop socially, educationally, and emotionally having regard for thorough effective assessment, care planning, and liaison with other agencies.
- Understand and support the purpose of the children’s homes and be willing and able to respond appropriately to children with challenging behaviour.
- Following the day-to-day activities of the home including cooking and cleaning; taking children to school, activities and appointments; following petty cash procedures, administering medication, maintaining the home environment and acting as a good role model. You will be required to work shift patterns covering the needs of the children. This will include early and late shifts, weekends and bank holidays. Please confirm that you are willing to undertake these duties in your supporting statement.
- To provide a safe and containing environment that will help stabilise the mental health of children experiencing a mental health crisis in order to allow them to return to their original placement and thus enhance placement stability.
- To be liaising with young peoples wider teams including social care, school and health care (GP’s, CAMHS team etc).
- To be liaising with parents and young people’s placements to support safe discharges home.
- To lead and support therapeutic activities and groups held within Cherry Tree Cottage.
- To help with the information gathering of assessments from young people and parents/carers.
Planning & Organisational Skills
- To provide accurate, clear and concise communications in all aspects of delivering the service.
- To work with the team leader and manager to ensure clinical governance initiatives and service framework targets are adhered to.
- To initiate and participate in service audits that may be required.
- Integrate into a multi professional health and social care team within the residential unit.
- To oversee care team responsibilities.
- To work with the team leader and manager to ensure clinical governance initiatives and service framework targets are adhered to.
- To promote service user feedback.
- To manage own case load exercising appropriate clinical and organizational judgment to ensure high standards in the provision of care.
- To plan, organize, time manage and prioritise own workload and personal administration.
- To liaise and consult with other professionals in the NHS and other agencies and organizations.
For more information, please read our detailed job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience working with Children & Young People in a health environment
- Experience working with CYP in a mental crisis environment
- Additional areas of training through short courses
Desirable criteria
- RNMH/RNLD/RMN/Registered Social Worker
- Degree with experience of postgraduate level study or the equivalent experience ENB 998/Mentorship
- Evidence of management or leadership development
- Membership of professional bodies NMC
- Membership of professional bodies NMC
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Ashleigh Underwood
- Job title
- CAMHS Cherry Tree Cottage Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971992213
- Additional information
Informal visits to the home are welcome please email if you would like to arrange a visit
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