Job summary
- CAMHS Crisis Practitioners focus on supporting young people in crisis, offering mental health assessments in the local A&E departments and intensive interventions in the community
- This varied role offers excellent opportunities to gain experience and skills in a variety of different settings
- The CAMHS Response Team operates from 8am to 10pm daily with flexible working opportunities within these hours
- We seek a forward-thinking, creative, responsive practitioner with a passion for young-person and family-centred care who is enthusiastic, resilient and able to respond flexibly to young people’s needs
- Main roles and responsibilities include:
- Referral screening
- Carrying out mental health crisis assessments independently
- Assessing and managing risk
- Planning, implementing and evaluating treatment and therapeutic interventions
- Working collaboratively with the team and allied health professionals within the network including Primary Health Care, Social Care and educational establishments.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, for you to develop skills and build on your experience to progress into other Nursing Band 7 roles across different specialties. We offer ongoing training and development within CAMHS crisis care, with opportunities to learn from other services.
Main duties of the job
- They will assess and provide brief interventions to young people and families that are in crisis. This will include A&E assessments and assessments in the family home. The team offers specialist training regarding assessment and intervention skills including CBT, DBT skills and trauma work. They will be part of a small, enthusiastic, creative, diverse team whose primary role is engagement within flexible models including the home, A&E and community settings.
- Part of a multidisciplinary team and work closely with other crisis services and centralised team.
- High level engagement skills; specialist assessment skills; creative intervention skills.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Sunday in the time frames from 0800 to 2200, giving opportunities to work a variety of shifts across this period, including single days and long days, whilst meeting the needs of the young people and families.
About us
- Be part of an innovative team which is vital to plans to transform Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Tier 4 services across South London. The service works in collaboration with the South London Partnership (SLP) Crisis service.
- SLP CAMHS New Models of Care Programme aims to transform services through partnership-working, delivering best practice consistently to support young people (YP) and their families. The SLP is a collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
- The CAMHS Response Team aims to provide assessments for YP with mental health needs presenting with, or at risk of, going into crisis via the CAMHS Crisis Line, A&E departments, on paediatric wards or seen by Community CAMHS Tier 3 services. We aim to provide a range of short-term community-based assessment and treatment options for up to 2 weeks for this group of YP and provide advice and support to parents/carers, in partnership with various internal and external agencies.
Centralised CAMHS Crisis team is at Denmark Hill, 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2), within walking distance of Ruskin Park and a high street that offers shopping opportunities and a wide range of restaurants.
The wider service covers the 4 boroughs (Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark). Wherever possible, case management is offered at the closest base to the staff member’s home, where suitable
Date posted
25 April 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£40,448 to £47,965 a year per annum Incl. of HCAs
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
334-CHI-5197655
Job locations
Maudsley Hospital
Mapother House, De Crespigny Walk
London
SE5 8AZ