Senior CAMHS Crisis PractitionerNHS

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced, skilled and confident Senior CAMHS Practitioner to join our ever-developing team. The successful applicant will be a caring and flexible practitioner who embraces change and thrives in a creative atmosphere.

The service works in collaboration with the South London Partnership (SLP) Crisis service, which is a collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

The CAMHS Response Team, is a nurse led community outreach team and aims to provide assessments for Young People with mental health needs presenting with, or at risk of, going into crisis and who present at A&E departments, on paediatric wards or who are seen by Community CAMHS services.

We are currently developing a 24-hour provision within the A&E environment in which you will have a key role.

We also aim to provide a range of short-term community-based assessment and treatment options for approximately 2 weeks for this group of YP and provide advice and support to parents/carers, in partnership with various internal and external agencies.

This role is an in-person role, the successful applicant will work across multiple hospital and community-based environments over a 24-hour period.

Please note previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Screening of referrals

Carrying out mental health crisis assessments independently in both A&E and community settings.

Assessing and managing risk in both A&E and community settings.

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.

Job description

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

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.