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Main area
Nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
306-BEH-2266
Employer
Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bay Tree House
Town
Enfield
Salary
£51,883 - £58,544 per annum Inclu Outer London HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust logo

CAMHS NDS Clinical Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 7

Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:  

  • Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together​
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes​
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance ​and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
  • Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services 
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

 We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

 
 

Job overview

The Service for Children and Adolescents with Neuro-developmental disorders (SCAN) is a specialist team for children and young people with severe learning disabilities and neuro-developmental disorders, who attend a Special Educational Needs Education Provision, where the degree of impairment is coupled with mental health problems. It has close links with the Child Development Team, which provides specialist assessment and intervention for children up to the age of 6 years where there are concerns about developmental difficulties.

 

Main duties of the job

  • To provide formal (ADOS-2) and informal assessment and appropriate advice in respect of the social communication needs of children and young people presenting with ND difficulties.
  • To support schools to meet social communication needs of children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties.
  • To liaise with local health and educational authorities as appropriate.
  • To deliver workshops and trainings to parents/carers, colleagues and other professionals as required.
  • To attend clinical meeting and in-service training as required.
  • To keep up to date with new techniques and research for the maintenance and promotion of good practice especially in relation to students with neurodevelopmental disorders.

·       Specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy to individuals, families or groups.

·       Liaise with and offer advice or consultation on clients’ psychological care to parent and/or carers, colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services and appropriate agencies,

·       Autonomously work and as part of a multidisciplinary team within professional guidelines

·       Record all clinical information in line with trust policies

·       Support service development and quality improvement projects

 

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership. 

Why choose to join the Partnership? 

  • We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart. 

  • Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses. 

  • Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors. 

  • Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff. 

  • We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more. 

  • Generous Annual Leave Allowance 

  • NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services. 

  • We have excellent internal staff network support groups. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To provide neurodevelopmental assessment, differential diagnostic assessment, support and intervention to individuals, families or groups in Enfield CAMHS NDS Pathway, under supervision.
  • To provide clinical supervision and training to other clinicians and trainees.
  • To be aware of the effectiveness of different targeted approaches to the treatment and management of social communication impairments for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders.
  • To produce and implement plans for strategies and therapies targeting neurodevelopmental disorders, and using evidenced based interventions, across the full range of care settings.
  • To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services and appropriate agencies, and/or carers.
  • Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, based on both theoretical and therapeutic models.
  • To educate students and train staff so that reasonable adjustments are made to enable secondary age students with ASC to function well in school and integrate where appropriate.
  • To develop collaborative working relationships with school and work alongside multi-agency services to provide appropriate support for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders in mainstream provisions.
  • To utilise research skills and core professional training for audit, service development and research within the area served by the service.
  • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

 

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Clinical Nurse Specialist: Mental Health Nursing Qualifications at Degree level or equivalent and professional registration with the NMC with additional therapies training.
  • ADOS-2 training
  • Evidence of additional specialist training related to neurodevelopmental disorders.
Desirable criteria
  • 3DI or ADI-R training
  • Specialist training in a subject/skill relevant to Child & and Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years)

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships and maintain professional boundaries.
  • Ability to be self-reflective on personal and professional development and use clinical supervision to explore and understand distress both directly with patients and indirectly.
  • Understanding of child development and psychosocial influences.
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Specific Therapy training
  • At least 2 years post registration experience in CAMHS.
  • Experience working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a range of cultural contexts
  • To identify the social communication needs of students to support schools to lead social skills groups, promote good peer relationships and self-confidence.

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
Kellie Cuthill
Job title
Clinical Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8702 5100

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