Team LeaderinBaldockinBaldockPUBLISHED WED 12 MAR 2025

Social and Health Together

Are you passionate about getting it right for Children and young people in care?

Do you want to be part of a unique short-term service to support children in mental health crisis, prevent their admission to hospital and successfully move them on to a settled placement.

Do you want to be part of a Multidisciplinary team with integral Health, Social Care and Psychiatry expertise.

With innovation at its heart, we are looking to recruit a team who want to be fundamental in the success of this first of its kind of service in Hertfordshire.

This is joint funded Ofsted registered children's home through an integrated health and social care staffing model to care for children booked after.

The home provides 3 beds for children with mental health presentations who are repeat attenders at A&E/136 suite or at risk of or have had an admission to a Tier 4 provision.

Please note this is a fixed term / secondment opportunity which will end in September 2026.

This is an exciting opportunity to join this innovative service as a Band 7 Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), working alongside social care colleagues at Cherry Tree Cottage.

As part of the MDT, the candidate will work collaboratively with the registered manager and wider team to provide a service-user focused provision. The service will provide acute containment and support to children and young people who have social and co-morbid mental health difficulties.

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Clinical Responsibilities

• To ensure effective nursing assessment and provision of a high standard of care within the home.
• To provide mental health expertise, clinical support and direction for complex or high risk cases and support with escalating concerns with cases through the appropriate routes.
• To take an active role in implementing preventative measures and clinical de-escalation and management for children within the home to prevent crisis and AE attendance.
• To provide a safe and containing environment that will help stabilise the mental health of children experiencing a mental health crisis in order to allow them to return to their original placement and thus enhance placement stability
• To act as a positive clinical lead to ensure there is shared risk management and support in the management of children and young people in the Cherry Tree.
• To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. This evidence-based approach includes monitoring outcomes, modifying and adapting interventions drawn from a range of theoretical models.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group
• To provide specialist expertise and psychological support to clients, their carers and staff working with the clients
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management Working Relationships.
• To ensure the day to day running of the service area is maintained to a high standard.
• To have in depth knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, the code of practice and the Mental Capacity Act to ensure their effective application by the inpatients service staff.

Working Relationships

• To develop and maintain effective working relationships with system partners such as CAMHS community teams, Specialist CYP Teams, CYP Crisis Services, General Hospitals & Emergency services.
• To ensure timely and active participation by the team and collaborative working with partners and stakeholders as appropriate.
• To maintain positive working relationships and clear communication with team members and other
• To enhance public relations, taking active steps to project a positive image of service users, the service and the two Trusts, HCC and HPFT.

Communication Requirements

• To communicate effectively and skillfully with a wide range of people in a formal and informal manner and in verbal and written format consistent with their level of understanding, culture, and background to explore complex issues and make complex decisions
• To communicate skillfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information with clients and carers, taking into account sensitive cultural barriers to communication, concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans.
• To communicate effectively and skillfully with other professionals in the service, other colleagues within or outside the Trusts, statutory and non-statutory agencies/partners relevant to the clients care and management (including for the purposes of safeguarding and liaison)
• Communicates in a way that demonstrates dignity, respect, kindness and empathy.

Leadership and Staff Management Responsibility

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a consultant or more senior nurse or from clinical supervision from other senior professional colleagues as appropriate and participate in regular peer supervision within the CYP Service.
• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the appropriate operational manager and professional lead.
• To contribute to the development of knowledge and skills base within MDT by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in CYP mental health and national policy developments in the area of specialist CYP & Crisis care and by implementing knowledge gained
• To undergo and maintain up-to-date Trust mandatory training requirements
• Be a visible leader who is accessible to service users, carers and staff.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership within the service.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self governance.
• To ensure that resources are appropriately and efficiently utilised within the service
• To check equipment and report equipment failures to line management as appropriate
• To work within financial policies, procedures, and budgets Service Development and Improvement
• To contribute to service development projects within own service area and other relevant agencies as required. This can involve contributing to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service operational policies or other organizational issues, by initiating and using ones professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit
• To contribute to the development and improvement of the service through taking a lead role on appropriate projects
• To liaise with other agencies and service providers in relation to the provision of psychological services and service developments, as agreed with the appropriate operational manager and Professional Lead.
• To provide specialist bio-psychosocial assessments of clients referred to the team