Senior CAMHS HTT Mental Health Practitioner

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Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through 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 proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Central London CAMHS Home Treatment Team (NCL HTT) as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high-quality mental health care to support young people and their families in times of crisis, who has established and accredited skills post-registration, and who is able to adapt to crisis situations as they arise. The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will also need to be skilled at multi-agency working.

The NCL Home Treatment Team is a new service delivering high-quality coordinated care to young people aged 13 up to their 18th birthday and their families in mental health crisis across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington. The service provides 12 weeks of intensive evidence-based support to prevent admission or facilitate safe early discharge from Tier 4 inpatient units. The team works in close collaboration with CAMHS Assertive Outreach Teams, Tier 4 inpatient units, local authorities, and emergency services. The post holder will work shifts to cover the service hours - 09:00-20:00 weekdays and 12:00-20:00 weekends. The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people, and their families referred to the service.

Main duties of the job
• Deliver flexible, high-frequency, evidence-based crisis interventions such as ongoing mental health assessments, risk assessments, safety planning, and problem-solving in a collaborative fashion.
• Provide a clear, evidence-based clinical perspective within the multi-disciplinary team and to referring agencies and external professionals.
• Provide clinical consultation and liaison when appropriate and establish working clinical formulation through regular Multi-Disciplinary Team discussions.
• Help to deliver a service specializing in the care and treatment of children and young people with a range of complex mental health problems and disorders, requiring a crisis response and a period of safe stabilization out in the community.
• Assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate the provision of specialist child mental health interventions across a range of care provision to meet the needs of individuals, groups of individuals, and families requiring intensive Home Treatment support.
• Focus on providing evidence-based psychological interventions to young people suffering from serious mental illness via a range of venues.
• Conduct appropriate specialist assessments of children, young people, and their families/carers, evaluating the results and offering a range of therapeutic interventions as appropriate to the presenting clinical need.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

Essential criteria

• RMN / RN (Mental Health) • Diploma or Degree with a minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience. • ENB 998 or equivalent course • Evidence of Further Continuous Professional Development • ENB 603 • RMN 1st level with the NMC - Nursing • Dip SW, RN (Mental health), Social Worker

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with young people and their families or mental health patients in the acute/crisis setting • Experience of working with young people with acute and enduring mental health illness with complex needs • Experience of working with young people with challenging behavior, high risk, and self-harm. • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. • Sound understanding of the role of Home Treatment Team • Evidence of professional and clinical knowledge acquired through specialist short courses, mandatory training, and self-study. • Experience and the ability to plan, organize, and delegate a broad range of activities to meet the requirements of the service and the day-to-day management of the Team, as delegated. • Knowledge and understanding of the application of Trust policies and procedures. • Technical knowledge and skills in the use of computers. Experience in implementing nursing/clinical procedures. • Specialist Nursing Process skills in bio-psychosocial Assessment, formulating of care plan, implementation, and evaluation of care. • Administration of oral Medications • Demonstrate clinical skills in the administration of intramuscular injections and medication management. • Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, Community Care Act 1990, National Service Framework, NHS Implementation Plan, Clinical and Social Governance. • Sound knowledge and understanding of the Children Act • Sound understanding of Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. • Knowledge and application of Care Programme Approach, Risk assessment, and Risk management. • Working knowledge of Adult Protection and Child Protection. • Sound Knowledge of breakaway techniques. • Ordering, checking, and storing of medications • Management of infection control and clinical waste • Basic wound management. • Knowledge and understanding of the Trust Clinical Procedures and the applications of them in day-to-day practice • Evidence-based knowledge and understanding of current mental illness, treatment, and how the illness affects the young person's life. • Ability to identify high-risk situations and respond appropriately. • Ability to work with other agencies to formulate care packages to meet young people's needs.

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate information which is contentious including where there are barriers to understanding. • Able to communicate complicated highly sensitive, confidential information in difficult situations. • Ability to communicate in a highly emotive atmosphere. • Ability to communicate in a hostile and antagonistic atmosphere. • Ability to describe, explain, persuade, influence, negotiate, motivate, use tact/diplomacy, and use empathy in providing care for young people and their families. • Good written and verbal communication skills. • Basic teaching and assessing skills. • Supervisory skills. • Good team player

ANALYTICAL SKILLS

Essential criteria

• Ability to make decisions & problem solve in complex and conflicting situations. • Ability to make judgements and match skills mix and the needs of the young people in delivering care. • Ability to make judgements on treatment where young people and their families are unable to give complete information. • Ability to assess young people and their family and make judgements on their suitability taking into account the risks and whether they are suitable for home treatment or hospital admission or community services • Ability to make judgements in a crisis where an expert opinion may need to be sought such as consultation with the consultant. • Able to assess and manage crises. • Complete audit processes & adapt/adjust practices accordingly. • Analyze & Interpret data and/or information. • Able to work without direct supervision. • Ability to plan and organize own time on a day-to-day basis. • Plan and organize teaching sessions in the Team • Time Management skills. • Ability to work autonomously and within the team. • Able to meet deadlines. • Ability to plan and organize various meetings such as transfer meetings, clinical review meetings, and multi-professional and multi-agency meetings. • Plan and organize treatment plans in conjunction with young people and their families. • Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate induction programmes for new staff and students to the Service

PHYSICAL SKILLS

Essential criteria

• Basic keyboard skills required. • Able to access information using Trust data systems. • Able to use Excel, Words, PowerPoint, and word processing. • Able to use the intranet and internet for keeping up to date with relevant National Mental Health Development. • Ability to use and communicate on E-mail following the Trust policies and procedures • Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)

PHYSICAL EFFORT

Essential criteria

• Able to handle and manipulate small equipment (e.g. giving injection). • Ability to take blood, monitor blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration. • Ability to be mobile. Evidence of current and valid driving license. • Ability to assist young people in attending to their personal care. • Ability to restrain young people in a crisis (basic self-defense) and be able to leave the situation quickly if possible for individual safety.

MENTAL EFFORT

Essential criteria

• Ability to maintain concentration within an unpredictable work pattern and environment. • Ability to cope and respond to interruptions in the course of work and re-prioritize work as a result of it. • Ability to concentrate when carrying out duties such as checking details documents, taking details information from referrers, carrying out assessment, carrying out therapy, carrying out clinical interventions, inputting details information on the computer system, undertaking report writing, and analyzing details statistics related to the team workings.

EMOTIONAL EFFORT

Essential criteria

• Ability to provide a service to young people and their family at times when they are under distress and can be angry. • Ability to give unwelcome news to young people, carers, and families such as changing appointments, transferring back to other services. • Ability to work with challenging behavior and emotionally demanding young people. • Ability to provide emotional support to colleagues following difficult situations where they found themselves at risk from young people and carers or others. • Ability to travel to and from young people's homes in the community in all weather conditions. • Ability to work with young people and their families who may at times due to their illness neglect the cleanliness in the home. • Ability to work with young people and families who may expose you to shouting, swearing, and verbal abuse or attack due to deterioration in their mental condition in extreme circumstances. • Ability to attend to young people's personal hygiene which may expose you to unpleasant body fluids, smells, and odors.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents e.g., Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organization where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining program which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make cost savings for NHS organizations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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

• JD and PS (PDF, 264.5KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 258.2KB)