Camhs Crisis Care Mental Health Practitioner

3 months ago


Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time

CPFT are delighted to offer you the opportunity to be part of the CAMHS Crisis Team, supporting children and young people.

Our aim is to provide multi skilled team support to families and young people in Crisis by delivering short-term, recovery-focused interventions. We are looking for practitioners who are passionate, dynamic, and skilled and ready for a new challenge to improve children’s experiences. The Team will have experienced clinical leaders working alongside support staff to deliver planned episodes of care and ensure young people have access to appropriate support.

Ideally you will have experience working with complex family issues and be able to demonstrate our Trust values (Professionalism, Respect, Innovation, Diversity and Empowerment) in delivering care and working as part of a team.

This system-wide service works collaboratively across multiple sectors, including social care and education, to ensure that the children and young people's acute mental health needs are shared, understood and that risk management plans are jointly agreed.

CAMHS Crisis Care Practitioners provide brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis. To provide short term, intensive mental health intervention for children and adolescents with complex mental health need.

You will work collaboratively with other Mental Health Services across the system as well as Acute Hospitals, Ambulance Service, the Police, Education and Social Care to provide risk and mental health assessment, formulation and contingency planning for children and young people presenting in Crisis.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
1. Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
2. Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual children and young people.
3. Provide assessment, planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
4. Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
5. Provide Supervision to Band 4 Crisis Support Workers
6. Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
7. Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
8. Act as the patients and relatives advocate.
9. Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change

**10. Champion patients’ rights, including**: dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect.
11. When undertaking all of the above ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing. Support Audit of clinical record keeping.
12. CAMHS Crisis Care Practitioners will provide brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis to A&E and in accordance with the operational policy
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