Crisis Line Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Be part of an innovative team which is vital to our plans to transform Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Tier 4 services across South London.

The service will work in collaboration with the South London Partnership (SLP) Crisis service.

South London Partnership is CAMHS New Models of Care Programme aims to transform services through partnership-working, delivering best practice consistently to support young people 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 Crisis Line aims to provide short-term, targeted telephone interventions to support young people in distress, as well as providing advice and support for parents and carers who have concerns about their child or young person's mental health.

We are looking to appoint someone who is confident, responsive and has a passion for young person and family-centred improvements; you will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to young people's needs flexibly.

The post holder will respond to out of hours calls accessed via the Crisis Line, offering advice, support and guidance.

To be aware of, and ensure that, the care team support the holistic needs of all childrenand young people, such as psychological, social, physical, recreational and spiritual needs.

As part of your role, you will be

expected to:

Undertake an immediate risk assessment of the young person using your communication skills and clinical knowledge to ensure that any advice or guidance given is appropriate and robust.
Provide immediate crisis counselling support to children and young people in significant distress, offering a friendly and supportive voice during this time.
Help the child or young person engage in any safety plan they have formulated with their community teams, in order to minimise any potential risk issues that may become apparent during the call.
Communicate with parents and carers to provide child and adolescent mental health expertise and advice in relation to their child or young person, reminding them of any plans put in place by CAMHS. If unknown to services, to help them formulate a plan that helps meet the immediate risk issues in relation to the child or young person which would allow their parents or carers to feel supported in managing them at home.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM.

It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: parttime working and job sharing.
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants
Assessed supervised clinical experience working with children and adolescents with mental health problems/needs or clear evidence of transferable skills.
Working in collaboration with supervisor, service user, carers and MDT in assessing needs, planning and implementing care.
Experience of research[1]based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment.
A good understanding and some experience of the following: Group, individual and family work, multidisciplinary work, clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision in CAMHS.
All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professional's Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or The UK Coun