About this role
Job summary
Welcome to CNWL Mental Health Inpatient Services for Children and Young People. Collingham Child and Family Centre is a National inpatient unit looking after children under the age of 13. We are looking to recruit Clinical Team Leaders from all nursing backgrounds to broaden and develop the experience and skill mix available to Children at Collingham Child and Family Centre.
We need innovative, dynamic people interested in developing their leadership skills in a supportive and highly skilled team. There will be opportunities to develop your therapeutic skills with our psychology, family therapy and occupational therapy leads.
Collingham Child and Family Centre CNWL NHS inpatient care team within the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea provides mental and emotional health services to children under the age of 13, their families and carers experiencing and needing help with thoughts feelings, difficult experiences, emotional, relationship and behavioural difficulties in family life, school or the wider world. These include bullying, eating difficulties, family issues, anger, sadness, worry, finding it hard to regulate emotions.
We appreciate that not everyone has provided care for young people, but if you're a Registered Paediatric, General, Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse, with experience of working on a ward, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
We're passionate about Children's mental health outcomes, and strive to deliver first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. Here at Collingham Child and Family Centre you will be supporting children to build a resilience, better coping strategies and healthy relationships.
Who are we?
The team consists of one consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, junior doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, family therapists, support workers, a ward manager and matron. We also have a fantastic on-site school with an outstanding team of teachers and visiting tutors for music, art therapy and drama therapy.
What do we do?
We work closely with children and their families to understand their problems, provide a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan to allow for them to return to their homes safely as quickly as possible. We treat a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses such as psychosis, mania, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder.
About us
CNWL have a pioneering history improving health outcomes in people's lives, by providing physical and mental health services at GPs, clinics, hospitals, and in the community. To find out more about CAMHS inpatients pleaseCLICK HERE.
We understand that staff are the heartbeat of our organisation, and offer substantial range of benefits locally, in addition to the standard NHS discounts.
We take flexible working seriously, and will always be open to discussion to meet our workforces competing work life demands.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
Typical tasks for this role?
- To support the ward manager in leading day-to-day running of the ward.
- To lead on champion roles and drive continuous improvement within the nursing team.
- To lead on nursing feedback in ward round and other professional meetings.
- To take on the Primary Nurse role for individual young people.
- To assist in the development of junior staff and act as a role model to them.
- To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based nursing care for the children, young people (CYP) and their families at all times.
- To put children, young people, their families and carers at the centre of everything we do.
- To ensure the provision of a welcoming, caring, clean and safe environment for the CYP and their families.
- Recognising escalation in behaviour or shift in ward dynamics and proactively address this with staff or young people.
- Monitoring observations and ensuring safe practice and act appropriately and in line with unit procedure.
- Supervising junior staff and students to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse at degree or diploma level.
- NMC Registered Nurse (Child) (or Registered Nurse) relevant to area of practice CAMHS Mental Health
Desirable
- Degree level qualification
- NVQ D32/33 Assessors course
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Teaching, supervision and managerial experience of coordinating and managing patient care
- Knowledge of mental disorder, child development, mental health law and legislation and the nursing process
- Understanding of professional and current issues in children's and mental health nursing.
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- Handling safeguarding issues according to Trust policies and procedures
- Understating or evidence of fulfilling PREP requirements for Revalidation Awareness of equality and diversity
Desirable
- Experience of working in a mental health setting post registration
- Basic counselling skills
Special Aptitudes/Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of and empathy to the needs of children & young people
- Ability to effectively communicate with children, young people and their parents
- Ability to effectively communicate with other professionals
- Basic understanding of budget and resource management
Desirable
- Ability to understand and work with challenging behaviour
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- A genuine interest in working within this specialism.
- Demonstrates professionalism (in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct) and good interpersonal relationships at all times.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
1a Beatrice Place
Marloes Road
London
W8 5LP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)