Clinical Lead – RMN Band 7 – CAMHS

Our client, a well established Mental Health charity are looking for dedicated and experienced Mental Health Nurses to join their Access Centre team in Surrey and Birmingham. You will play a key role in ensuring that high quality, clinically necessary care is being provided in the most appropriate and cost-effective therapeutic setting.

A key role within the One Stop Centre team, this role will play a vital part in ensuring that high quality, clinically necessary care is being provided in the most appropriate and cost-effective therapeutic setting within the high profile and innovative SABP Partnership. This role represents a significant career and leadership development opportunity for the right candidate.

Working closely with the SPA (One Stop) Centre Manager and Programme Director, the Clinical Psychologist/One Stop Clinical Lead (CP/ACCL) will be responsible for the day to day clinical leadership of the One Stop Centre which will be operational from 8am-8pm on weekdays and on Saturday mornings and will be the single point of access for all mental health referrals for those aged 0 – 18 years and those up to the age of 25 already known to CAMHS. The CP/ACCL will be the point of contact for the most complex of clinical queries; they will also provide leadership, supervision, consultation, and guidance to One Stop clinicians including Assistant Psychologists, Social Workers and CPN’s. You will act as deputy to the SPA (One Stop) Manager in their absence.

Key responsibilities & accountabilities:

* Providing clinical expertise for the most complex of clinical referrals (self or professional) and enquiries on the telephone (e.g., that have been escalated by a clinician or Assistant Psychologist)
* Contribute and lead on teaching, mentoring and development of more junior staff, supervising and training new employees, agency and bank staff as required
* Support the development of the One Stop service in association with other inter-related teams.
* Support opportunities to develop practices and services in order to maximise resource utilisation
* Monitoring, managing and triaging appointment queues and liaising with staff within and outside the One Stop to ensure safe allocation of service users for assessment
* Providing guidance and supervision to clinicians (Mental Health Nurses & Social Workers) and Assistant Psychologists
* Providing call back support/advice/information gathering with the administration support and when clinically necessary reviewing service conditions to manage clinical risk
* Discussing appropriate care pathways with the (self) referrer to agree current needs, expectations of a service and utilisation of the most appropriate pathway and optimal level of care
* Using the computer system to ensure accurate documentation of all episodes of caller interaction are complete and become permanent, including any adverse events, child protection issues and other notifiable matters in accordance with policy, guidelines and best practice
* Ensuring that clinically validated appointments are booked appropriately and according to clinical priority on the appointments system
* Ensuring systems and processes are in place for the security and maintenance of all equipment and comply with information policies and procedures
* Managing all communications in a professional and courteous manner to all service users, relatives, referrers and staff (both internal and external to SABP)

The Centre is operational from 8am-8pm on weekdays and 9am-12pm Saturdays.
The hourly rate will be £32.4per hour weekdays and £33 per hour Saturdays.
To be considered for the role you must fulfil the following criteria:

* Qualification/current and active registration with the Health & Care Professions Council or equivalent (e.g. HCPC Clinical Psychologist or NMC registered Mental Health Nurse)
* Evidence of continuing post-registration/graduate development
* Significant experience of conducting mental health triage/screening/assessments
* Excellent knowledge and understanding of clinical governance
* Excellent knowledge of mental health conditions, diagnoses and clinical risk
* Ability to self-organise/manage and deliver a high standard of clinical coordination and triage service
* Excellent communication/ interpersonal skills in order to deal effectively with complex and sensitive service user information, distressed or aggressive service users or carers or those with an impaired level of understanding
* Experience working with a broad range of mental health presentations, including with those in acute distress or crisis.

If you wish to be considered for the position please send your CV to Rowena Davis in the first instance.

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