Camhs Crisis Clinical Specialist Practitioner

1 month ago


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

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CPFT are delighted to offer you the unique opportunity to be part of a new CAMHS Crisis Team to support children and young people in our county. This is an exciting opportunity to be fully involved in developing and creating the highest quality service provision for service users and their families / supporters from the start and we need you to help us achieve this.

We are looking for qualified practitioners who are passionate, dynamic, and skilled professionals and we would support staff who are ready for a new challenge to significantly improve children’s experiences.

Ideally applicants would have experience working in health or social care with complex family issues and be able to demonstrate our Trust values, Professionalism, Respect, Innovation, Diversity and Empowerment. We can offer a bespoke introduction and training in Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Services that will enhance your knowledge in risk assessments of young people.

You 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.

Working within the community, you will deliver a range of brief solution focused interventions to empower patients, carers, families and colleagues in decision making and assist in identifying and referring on to a range of health and social care resources for support. 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.
- Working closely with Acute Hospitals to ensure the timely assessment of young people presenting in an emergency.
- To undertake clinical mental health assessments and support the management of Children and Young People presenting in crisis.
- Ensure that care is based on the assessment of care needs and includes a thorough risk assessment and risk management plan.
- Use clinical knowledge and expertise to formulate an assessment of relapse risk of the patient after specialist assessment. Liaise with other agencies caring for patients, including community mental health teams and GPs and use collateral information from relatives, GPs and past clinical reports, where available and appropriate, to provide care plans for all patients.
- Provide Supervision and Clinical leadership within the Service
- Deputise for the Service Lead when necessary
- Utilise recent research findings in the advancement of best practice and in the delivery of an evidenced based service.
- To provide support and expert advice to colleagues involved in the care of patients with mental health needs and develop systems to ensure that this support is available in a range of ways.
- Monitor and evaluate the standards of care and take actions to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained. Contribute to Audit to ensure quality standards are met.
- Identify and be responsive to the diverse cultural, social and spiritual needs of all patients.
- Promote general health education and specifically mental health education to the client group.
- Identify and intervene proactively in situations that contribute to an unsafe environment for patients, visitors and staff.
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of all resources.
- Ensure that all duties are carried to the highest possible standard, and in accordance with the current quality initiatives within the work area.
- Be aware of the responsibility to maintain a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors.
- Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- Being responsible for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual children and young people.
- Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
- Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and re



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