Job overview

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) service provides out-patient and consultation services to children experiencing a range of mental health and developmental difficulties.

The service also includes a Single Point of Access team which manages all referrals for children and adolescents in Richmond and Kingston boroughs where there are concerns about emotional heath/mental health difficulties. The Richmond and Kingston T3 services and the SPA work in close collaboration

SWLSTG CAMHS Tier 3 teams are multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families presenting to the service with moderate to severe mental health problems and with high-risk profiles.

Main duties of the job

• We are looking for an experienced and qualified CAMHS Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Non-Medical Prescriber to:
• Provide support to our T3 Consultant Psychiatrists in Kingston and Richmond CAMHS T3 services, by taking responsibility, under their direction, for medication initiation and review. Providing, as part of treatment titration, ongoing assessment, treatment, and management of patients
• To provide clinical supervision to trainee NMP posts within Kingston and Richmond
• To provide borough leadership for ADHD prescribing clinic developments across Kingston and Richmond CAMHS
• Represent SWLSTG Trust Kingston and Richmond CAMHS at external and internal ADHD medication related development meetings
• Provide direct clinical judgement and treatment decisions using highly developed skills and knowledge regarding clinical management of Children with ADHD.
• Exercise Independent or Supplementary prescribing rights using accepted guidelines and within client's clinical policies and the RPS Prescribing Framework.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the patient's interests are fully considered within the context of their care, actively participating in ethical, shared decision making within the multi-disciplinary team approach.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for decision making within the parameters and expectations of the Titration Team leads.
• Undertake risk assessments and review safeguarding needs alongside treatment strategies during ongoing patient care.
• Utilize up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, national and client's policies and other issues relating to ADHD and patient management.
• Access regular clinical supervision from an allocated Service Consultant Psychiatrist and within the Titration Team
• Monitor treatment effectiveness and potential side effects and where appropriate initiate prescribing changes within NICE Guidance (NG87), policies and agreed treatment standards.
• Make independent prescribing decisions in collaboration with the patient and keep the Consultant Psychiatrist informed during the titration process, as required, by keeping contemporaneous records in the electronic clinical record.
• Use internationally recognised and validated screening and monitoring tools, alongside Services monitoring processes to implement excellent standards of patient care and achieve stabilisation of symptoms and treatment optimisation.
• Place an emphasis on informed choice within a patient partnership approach, ensuring full information is provided to the patient regarding the medications to be prescribed, following RPS Prescribing Framework standard

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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.

Person specification:

Experience

Essential

• MSc qualification related to the clinical area or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio including experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment with children and young people with mental health difficulties, emotional, behavioural, and relational problems, and their families, including looked after children.
• Minimum of 12 months experience working as a non-medical prescriber with a relevant service.
• Experience of working with children and young people with ADHD.
• Experience of managing complex and high-risk cases.
• Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of, other staff.
• Experience of providing teaching and training to multidisciplinary groups.
• Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Experience of developing and carrying out research projects with children and young people.
• Experience of supervision of other staff.
• Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision, and appraisal.
• Experience of multi-agency collaboration and integrated working.

Desirable

• Previous NMP experience

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RCN or HV, or pharmacist) / with related CAMHS experience and MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post registration
• Professional development in child and adolescent mental health including evidence of clinical, audit and/or research presentations at local and national CAMHS events and evidence of publication of articles or the production of strategic reports which have advanced CAMHS.
• All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body e.g., the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social care council, Health professional's council or applicable psychological or psychotherapies body.
• Non-medical prescriber with appropriate professional registration
• Formal training in supervision.

Desirable

• Additional specialist post qualification training such as ADOS; SAVRY; ADI; CAI; Fostering Changes; Parent / Child Game; NVR; CBT; IPT; Systemic Practice.