Specialist CAMHS Crisis Practitioner - Band 7

Job summary

The post holders will deliver high quality assessment and treatment interventions to young people as part of the HTT offer. Each post holder will hold a caseload of children, young people and their families. The post holder will work around individual needs, arranging appointments at home, in community locations or hospitals. They will work collaboratively with other professionals involved in supporting a young person, providing specialist advice, consultation and training to improve biopsychosocial care as needed.

Main duties of the job

To effectively triage and accept referrals to the service, liaising with other professionals and providing initial advice as appropriate. To provide comprehensive mental health and risk assessments of children, young people and their families/carers referred in crisis.

To manage risk by putting in place care plans, safety & coping plans and other risk interventions in a variety of settings, e.g. at home, in the community or in hospital settings To provide brief evidence-based crisis interventions to children, young people and families referred to the service, that aim to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe early discharge from inpatient mental health wards or acute services - including individual and group work To engage in assertive outreach work with children/young people and their families where appropriate and inreach work where children/ young people are admitted Based on assessments and reports convey sensitive, complex and sometimes unwelcome information to patients and other professionals about risks, both verbally and in written form, and manage this as constructively as possible.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

To act as care coordinator for an identified caseload and to be responsible for the coordination of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic packages of care provided by HTT. To manage a clinical caseload independently within appropriate clinical/professional guidelines and to seek consultation where necessary with the relevant line manager and lead clinicians of specialist teams.

To act as a care coordinator in accordance with CPA guidelines within the CAMHS community setting. To provide packages of care, group-work and psychoeducation for the young people and their families/ carers that takes account of the complexities of family systems and their significant social networks.

To ensure that the needs of the client group is paramount, and to and adhere to local community and hospital guidelines relating to Safeguarding and Child Protection. To ensure acceptable levels of safety (regarding potential verbal and physical aggression from disturbed clients) for self and to advise other colleagues when necessary. To adhere to the lone worker policy and update training in breakaway techniques when necessary.

To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop work with families by providing highly specialist knowledge and skills. To be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.

To carry out work demanding intense sustained concentration and analysis, often with time and other pressures. To be able to work in emotionally demanding environments and/or difficult working conditions. To manage exposure to hostile, antagonistic or highly emotional atmospheres and verbal aggression, and to recognise and diffuse any risk of physical aggression.

To access the available support and supervision to cope with the emotional effects of working with potentially highly distressed and traumatised clients. To provide a service to clients, that is collaborative and takes into account their individual, psychological, physical and social needs, including issues to do with disability and beliefs about mental health.

To work in ways which are actively anti-racist sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, ethnic, cultural, religious and social backgrounds and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs.

This includes an ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, extended families, blended families, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care and children who are subject to Child Protection plans To maintain accurate clinical records in accordance with service standards and to record and maintain patient data in local database systems, RiO, EPR and Millennium.

To record relevant information at the time of referral, during ongoing work, and for evaluation purposes as consistent with the policies and protocols of the NHS and the relevant hospital and the Trust. To ensure all incidents are reported in accordance with Trust policy and learning from SUIs and complaints is proactively managed and used to influence change in clinical practice.

Person Specification

Experience · Essential

Qualification in appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Systemic Psychotherapy, Child Psychotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Social work Experience of working with children, young people and their families with complex mental health needs, including vulnerable young people who present with high risk behaviours Ability to contain and work with organizational stress and ability to 'hold' stress of others Able to manage own time and caseload, prioritizing assessments and treatment in non-mental health settings Knowledge of The Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and associated legislation

Desirable

Qualifications/training in relevant skills e.g. systemic therapies, CBT, DBT, Solution Focused therapy Specialist CAMHS experience e.g. YOT, Eating Disorders, Adolescent Inpatient ward, work in substance abuse Experience of service development, audit and quality improvement Experience of managing and supervising junior staff

Experience · Essential

Experience in the use of CAMHS clinical outcomes

Desirable

Experience of managing and supervising junior staff

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).