Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £50,008 – £56,908 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Non-Medical Prescriber? Or NMP trainee? Do you have a professional qualification as an RMN/RN or RNLD? Are you ready to be part of a thriving team as part of our Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), now known as Children and Young People’s Services (CYPS)? Are you passionate about delivering excellent care to our young people and their families? If yes, then we’d love to hear from you.
You would be joining a dynamic, busy, and successful service and multi-disciplinary team within CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire (formally known as CAMHS Aldershot) for four days per week. We are a reflective and highly supportive team ensuring we put our young people and families at the heart of what we do. As part of our i-THRIVE framework, this team is focused on Getting more help. You would be offering assessments and interventions to children and young people experiencing psychological distress as well as providing support for the Clinic Duty System.
You’ll have opportunities to supervise, support and develop junior staff members, develop positive working relationships with our Mindworks Surrey Children’s Learning Disability Team and our own Neurodevelopmental Team. There will be opportunities for specific learning disability and neurodevelopmental training.
Main duties of the job
We’re looking for a new team member with experience in assessment and treatment of CYP with neurodevelopmental disorders, and/or mental health needs with a non-medical prescribing qualification or in the process of obtaining. We are ideally seeking applications from those with learning disability experience in order enhancing our offer to the young people in our locality.
Deliver on the following key areas and lead team functioning with particular focus on;
· Early identification, management and intervention for CYP with anxiety, depression, ADHD.
· Support on the provision of prescribing within the team.
· Interface with relevant promoting connectivity and aiding effective care planning between services.
· Case load holder of CYP as part of the medical team offer within CT.
· Provide supervision and training to other qualified nurses and student nurses.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description for more information on the requirements for this job. If you have further questions about the role which the advert and job description do not answer, please contact us.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health/ Paediatric Nurse / Registered Nurse Learning Disability
- Nurse Medical Prescriber (V300)
- Mentorship qualification
- Valid driving license for use in the UK
Desirable criteria
- ADOS or ADHD diagnostic assessment trained
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum three years experience of working with children/ young people, mental health and/or neurodevelopment
- Assessment and support for people with complex presentations
- 6 months prescribing ADHD or other MH medication either supplementary or independent
Desirable criteria
- Experience of diagnostic assessments for ADHD/ASD
- Experience working with people diagnosed with ADHD
- Experience of prescribing ADHD medication
- Experience of working with Learning Disabilities
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.