NursingNetUK

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Undertaking a lead professional role as required for children, young people and their families who are known to Children’s Social Care. Providing effective assessment, consultation monitoring and review of care needs and utilizing skills in case management to ensure therapeutic plans are carried out with an effective and evidence-based treatment package that is routinely monitored and evaluated.
• Establishing, maintaining monitoring, and ending purposeful, therapeutic relationships with children and young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties,
  where indicated. Practice will be creative and underpinned by
  specialist knowledge of, and skills in, evidence based and
  psychosocial interventions and will include routinely measuring and recording outcomes in collaboration with the young person and their family/carers.
• Using knowledge and skills of psychological therapies, for example CBT, DBT and Solution Focused approaches and effectively monitoring progress of interventions throughout the course of treatment using appropriate routine outcome measures.
• Providing Consultation and some indirect work to a range of professionals known to the child, young person, or their carers.
• Assessing risk in collaboration with children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties, significant others, and other workers/professionals, alongside use of own professional judgment and team processes. This involves exploring individual’s risk of harm to themselves and/or others and may involve working with challenging, hostile, and distressing behaviour.
• To pro-actively provide health education and advice to a wide range of professionals working with young people and their carers promoting a reduction in risk taking behaviour among young people.
• Providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information in relation to Safeguarding and Child Protection work and taking appropriate action. This includes identifying and appropriately reporting concerns to Children’s Social Care while using communication skills to maintain a professional working relationship with parents and significant others in often hostile and highly emotive situations.
• Providing and receiving information from carers, significant others, and members of the community.
• Using a systemic approach to work with individuals, their families and significant others where indicated. Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with carers and significant others.
• Identifying and engaging with practitioners with specialist knowledge, for example by requesting specialist knowledge or clinical supervision sessions where appropriate.
• Working without direct supervision and being accountable for own actions.
• Skilled and constructive use of own supervision sessions, engagement in reflective practice, commitment to continuously develop self-awareness and work appropriately within professional boundaries.