Camhs Practitioner Healthcare Team - Lincoln, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Lincoln, United Kingdom

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We are looking for a full-time Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner to join our Healthcare team in Lincolnshire Secure Unit to provide mental health and psychological well-being support and intervention to vulnerable children and young people (CYP) resident in the home.


The CYP are between the ages of 10 and 18 and have often experienced many adverse childhood events and trauma.

Their everyday care is met by social care staff and the healthcare team enhances this care by providing multi-disciplinary support for healthcare needs, including, physical health, mental health, and psychological/emotional well-being.


You will be responsible for monitoring the mental health and psychological well-being of the CYP, and will deliver health screening of CYP on admission, ensuring all physical and mental health needs inform care planning.


You will deliver training/workshops to staff and CYP on issues affecting mental health and psychological well-being and work closely with the psychologist to deliver trauma informed care to CYP in partnership with the unit's school and care staff.


The core hours are 9.00am to 17.00pm Monday-Friday with some later working to support after school availability up to 9pm.

The team operate an on-call system for initial health screening of admissions up to 21.00pm weekdays and midday weekends and bank holidays.

We are committed to professional development and provide many training opportunities for staff.

  • To provide early intervention through consultation, needs and risk assessment for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health, emotional and behavioural problems, in a secure environment, using the Care Programme Approach as required.
  • Act as Care Coordinator under the CPA, as required.
  • To deliver care planning and individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people and other workers involved in care delivery.


Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.


You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.

In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We're really proud of this


We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details.

  • To work flexibly between 9am and 9pm, including some oncall duties for admissions bank holidays and weekends.
  • To work in accordance with relevant childcare and health legislation and professional standards.
  • To proactively involve young people and families/carers in service development and evaluation.
  • Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decisionmaking, internally and with external agencies.
  • Deliver a programme of health promotion in liaison with the school and unit.
  • To function as part of the multidisciplinary LSU service.
  • To work in partnership with wider CAMHS, Children's Services and Youth Offending Service.
  • To provide a professional, nonstigmatising service to children and families/carers up to 18 years.
  • Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decisionmaking, internally and with external agencies.
  • Empower Service Users and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
  • Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people
  • Plan and deliver group interventions
  • Adhere to Trust Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.
  • Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance a
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