Camhs Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

6 months ago


Lincoln, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

CAMHS Crisis and enhanced treatment services are expanding We have exciting new posts to support children and young people (CYP) accessing our medical areas at the hospital, including A&E, paediatrics, and the hospital wards at Lincoln County hospital (LCH) and Pilgrim hospital Boston (PHB).

We have a 2 Band 6 positions available within the existing team based in Lincoln and 4 Band 6 position in a developing team at Boston both working shifts across a 24/7 rota.

The roles will be based within the CAMHS crisis teams in the north and south of the county but also working closely with the adults MH liaison team and be based with them at LCH and PHB at night.

We will offer a full induction package for all new starters within the teams and have some really training opportunities throughout the year already booked to build on skills and interventions. We are an innovative service and pride ourselves in providing training to enhance the care and support we can deliver.

We welcome clinicians with creative ideas to help continue to develop the service. Crisis/liaison work is fast paced and often challenging, and our teams love cake and snacks, good baking skills is a desirable requirement for this post. We have a good sense of humour and are a very supportive team; Come and join us

You will work closely with CAMHS CCETT staff to ensure a 24-hour service is offered for CYP experiencing a mental health crisis, including phone support out of hours to those on the case load, support to those accessing medical care or emergency care through ULHT or the S136 suite.

You will work closely with ULHT, CAMHS and other providers to ensure CYP experiencing mental health crisis have quick access to mental health triage, support, and assessment to allow signposting for follow up and discharge home. This includes those with a range of different mental health presentations and eating difficulties.

You will also work with the S136 suite if any CYP are detained there and will take calls via SPA at night from CYP/Families and carers known to the service and from emergency services who need support, liaison, triage, or assessment for a CYP presenting in a mental health crisis.

The Lincoln team have been in post since March 23 are we are already receiving some great results and feedback from this new service. We are now ready to develop a further team in the South of the county but the teams will continue to support each other.

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.
- Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
- Act on behalf of CAMHS CCETT out of hours and take calls and emergency referrals during the night from SPA, A&E, Paediatrics, 111, ambulance service and the police. Also provide support and guidance to CYP/Families and carers open to the service out of hours.
- To work with MDT to support discharge planning and prevent further hospital admission (both acute and Tier 4).
- Work with CCETT to provide rapid triage and assessment across the county when required.
- To be a link person between Rainforest Ward (LCH), Ward 4 (PHB) and CAMHS/CCETT.
- To provide Emergency Departments with rapid access to specialist mental health assessment to avoid hospital admission where possible.
- To provide effective mental health interventions in Emergency Departments, Medical Emergency Admissions Unit (MEAU), paediatric care and Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Wards to improve the quality of care in these environments and reduce length of stay and improve patie



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