Description
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 health/mental health difficulties.
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. The successful candidate will provide clinical supervision to trainee NMP posts within Kingston and Richmond, provide borough leadership for ADHD prescribing clinic developments across Kingston and Richmond CAMHS, and represent SWLSTG Trust Kingston and Richmond CAMHS at external and internal ADHD medication related development meetings.
The salary for this position is £63,665 to £70,887 a year per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs. This is a part-time, permanent position based at Tolworth Hospital, Red Lion Road, Surbiton, Surrey, London, KT6 7QU.
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.
Person Specification:
- 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.
Benefits:
- Flexible working
- Career development
- A variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.