Camhs Crisis Team Advanced Clinical Practitioner

We are seeking to recruit an Advanced clinical Practitioner to work within an exciting new service development within Pennine Care. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working with children and young people and working innovatively across pathways and traditional boundaries to ensure that young people get the right care, from the right clinician/team, at the right time and in the right place in order to improve their outcomes and the families/carers experience of mental health support.
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work alongside the highly skilled existing team consisting of band 6 MHPs, band 7 SMHP /team leaders, youth support workers, an Operational manager, and an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. The successful candidate will offer clinical leadership, advanced level of assessments and risk formulations for CYP seen in the Crisis Team. They will have responsibilities for the training needs of the workforce and provide clinical supervision to those providing assessment, support, signposting as well as brief therapeutic intervention where appropriate to young people who required crisis support within our CYP Crisis Teams which include Home Treatment, Rapid Response and Enhanced Rapid Response-pediatrics liaison within the Pennine Care footprint.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
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Responsibility for Patient Care (including monitoring, diagnostics, investigations, assessment, formulation)
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As a member of the CAMHS care hub to act as an autonomous practitioner providing clinical assessment, diagnosis (where possible), and treatment (where appropriate) for patients referred to the urgent and acute pathways within their scope of professional practice.
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To be responsible for managing referrals including the initial assessment request and interpret investigations and propose differential diagnoses for children with complex mental health conditions.
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To offer clinical supervision, reflective practice and complex case management support to the senior mental health practitioners and Team Manager within the care hub.
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities. We are really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post.
Within Pennine Care we are committed to the development of our staff. We have many great training opportunities to continue to develop your career within the Acute Care Pathway including:
AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment)
DBT skills workshops
STORM Skills Training (Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Mitigation)
Risk formulation Training
Our services are being designed to work flexibly around the needs of the young person and as such this also allows us to extend the offer of flexibility in working across the pathway to our staff. This allows staff to be able to get a diverse profile of learning in many different environments allowing you to use and develop a whole range of skills in working with young people in a number of different settings.
To provide advice, consultation and liaison to CAMHS teams and wider children’s services regarding referrals, signposting and appropriate care and treatment
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To triage and prioritise children and young people referred to the Acute Pathway demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit a comprehensive history to determine an appropriate care plan.
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To identify changes in a patient’s condition through clinical examination and take appropriate action to ensure the safety of the patient.
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To undertake interventions consistent with evidence-based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet the child or young person’s needs.
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To use the skills and knowledge to make referrals for diagnostic tests and instigate investigations to support diagnosis if required
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To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in meeting prior agreed goals and making any necessary modifications.
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To undertake necessary assessments and as a non-medical prescriber, prescribe within the scope of professional practice.
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To ensure that the care provided and services delivered are in line with local policies and procedures and the Clinical Governance Framework.
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To maintain accurate and contemporaneous records in accordance with local and national professional policies and guidelines.
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To use Advanced Clinical skills and expert knowledge to provide proactive monitoring and provide timely intervention.