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SalaryThis is an exciting opportunity for a full time Senior CAMHS Practitioner to join Brighton & Hove's vibrant, multi-disciplinary Adolescent Service. The post will be embedded in the local authority's Children's Safeguarding & Care service, as part of our health offer to young people within it. The Adolescent Service works with complex adolescents at risk of, or experiencing, exploitation; family difficulties; substance use and offending.
This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).
Main duties of the job
This post has been developed to ensure that specialist Mental Health input is available, in a timely, responsive, and flexible manner, to a vulnerable and complex group of young people, their families and the professional systems around them.
The service is committed to ensuring equality of provision, working within Brighton & Hove which has pledged to be an anti-racist council. The team is fully committed to playing its part in dismantling racist structures and challenging racial inequality and all forms of discrimination.
Working for our organisation
The Adolescent Service comprises specialists in youth offending, sexual health, substance misuse, functional family therapy and social work, it also has an edge of care intensive support team embedded within it. Relationship-based practice underpins the work with young people, families, colleagues and professional networks. The service takes a creative and innovative approach in responding to young people's needs, focussing on the effectiveness of trusting relationships, particularly with those young people with experience of trauma and attachment difficulties. This can require workers to utilise their skills and knowledge whilst undertaking tasks which may sit outside traditional specialist roles. You will play a role in a "Team Around the Worker" model, which would involve you receiving or offering specialist support and guidance within complex helping networks
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key elements of the role include offering consultation, case formulation, assessment, direct interventions, training and maintaining timely and accurate case records.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in HPC / NMC registered professional group
- Registration with the relevant body
- Training in the use of standardised assessment tools
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience as a qualified Mental Health Practitioner
- Broad experience of working with clients with a range of neurodevelopmental presentations and/ or Mental Health problems
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience of multi-agency work
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
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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.
