Camhs Crisis 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

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 forwardthinking, creative, responsive practitioner with a passion for youngperson and familycentred 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.
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.
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 partnershipworking, 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 shortterm communitybased 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

The CAMHS Crisis Practitioner role is suitable for Registered Nurses and allied health care professionals who have successfully completed preceptorship.

The post holder will work as part of the South London Partnership CAMHS Response Team based at The Maudsley Hospital.

The post holder will deliver, or advise on the delivery of, high quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.

As a CAMHS Crisis Practitioner you will promote and develop clinical leadership and clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through the practice of evidence-based care.

You will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to the ongoing educational program for staff, fostering a positive learning environment.

Your professional and personal development will include further postgraduate study and you will be encouraged and supported by your line manager to undertake Masters' programmes.

Community roles vary and the specifics of the community setting in which you work are covered during induction and will be explained by your line manager and colleagues; this addendum sets out the expectations of all Band 6 staff working in a community setting and should be read alongside the detail of the requirements for a Band 6 set out in the generic Job Description.

Crisis Service

The post holder will be responsible for:
Receiving and scrutinizing appropriateness of referrals

Carrying out safe therapeutic interventions, escalating concerns as appropriate

Carrying out crisis CAMHS assessments in the A&E environment independently, liaising with family and professionals and taking