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Job summary

Main area
CAMHS
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
351-SPS1025-CLK-B
Employer
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Rapid Assessment Intensive Support Team
Town
Lancaster
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust logo

Risk Support Liaison Worker - CAMHS

Band 7

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

  • Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
  • Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
  • Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

For more information about  Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job overview

Risk Support Liaison Worker – Full-time 37.50 hours per week - Permanent

Lancashire & South Cumbria CYPMH services.

 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our CYPMH Team in this new role, together with our partners across Lancashire & South Cumbria as we move towards mobilising the Risk Support Model in response to transforming Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services as part of the iTHRIVE transformation programme.

 

The Risk Support Model is a Lancashire and South Cumbria (L&SC) wide programme and we are looking to recruit our Risk Support Liaison Worker, who will be integral in fulfilling the Risk Support approach that has been developed through the CAMHS Redesign Co-production work.

 

The post holder will be part of the Lancashire & South Cumbria innovative and exciting new approach to Risk Support across the integrated care system footprint, yet with a very strong local focus on working across a range of partner organisations including local CAMHS teams, Children's Social Care, education and voluntary sector partners to establish a coordinated, effective, efficient, high quality and consistent approach to Risk Support across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

 

 

 

Main duties of the job

 

Whilst the post holder will be based within local CAMHS teams, our vision is that colocation within other partner organisations in particular Children’s Social Care Teams will form part of the working week, to help embed a culture of shared risk and collaborative working arrangements in which young people, parents, carers and professionals feel supported. The post holder must be comfortable with complexity and risk, be reflexive, resilient and have experience of sitting within times of considerable uncertainty, where anxieties amongst others can be high. As part of the Risk Support approach the post holder will also be a key member of the AMBIT Community across Lancashire & South Cumbria and should feel confident in modelling the AMBIT approach across the children’s and young people’s workforce including education, social care and health professionals, as well as delivering training to partner organisation within their footprint.

Working for our organisation

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. 

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

 

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Core profession (HCPC, Social Care, Nursing) or recognised degree level broad based health & social care qualification OR IAPT qualification
  • Supervision qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Post qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of child and adolescent mental health.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
  • Evidence of knowledge of the evidence base in their practice.
  • Evidence of understanding of child development and psychosocial influences.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
  • Evidence of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Evidence of experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachelle Stassen
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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