CAMHS Day Service Registered Nurse/Practitioner

Please review attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account. To work within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, providing support services to children, adolescent and their families/carers with complex needs. To organise own workload for a range of complex cases. Seeing young people and families in order to carry out mental health assessments, plan and provide community based interventions in a variety of settings, eg, the specialist day service, home, education, GP surgery and other primary care settings. To take an assertive outreach approach in order to help young people maintain a level of mental health support that can benefit their emotional wellbeing/mental health. To undertake ongoing risk assessment of harm to self or others, risk of vulnerability, and complex health and social care assessment. To monitor the effects of prescribed medication and to report any side effects to the responsible medical officer in accordance with local Trust policy and the NMC administration of medications policy. To feedback outcomes of assessment and intervention to relevant CAMHS colleagues in regular clinical discussion, and directly to the nominated senior clinician in managerial supervision. To promote a wider understanding of mental health issues relating to children and adolescents amongst families, referrers and other professionals. To facilitate group work with service users. To develop and maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments. The provide advice, training and support to services in key partner agencies where appropriate and act as a key liaison person. To contribute towards the development of specialist team protocols and propose changes to the working practice of the team. Participate in organised service activities, ie allocation, team meetings, case discussions in order to contribute towards service development. To participate in meetings and reviews to support children, young people and their families in planning to meet the needs of the service user.

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