Set Camhs Crisis Practitioner

5 months ago


Colchester, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

This post is an exciting opportunity for those who wish to be part of an innovative developing service. The SET CAMHS crisis and intensive support/home treatment team offer assessment and interventions to those young people presenting with mental deterioration or crisis presentations. As a service we now work within the Thrive model and implement collaborative care plans with our community services and community SET CAMHS team to promote positive outcomes for vulnerable young people and their families-there are opportunities here for joint working and co-ordinating alongside the community-based teams. Our approach to working is being developed with a focus on meeting the needs of the young person to ensure effective clinical practice and brief therapeutic interventions, and to reduce risk in order to have a stabilising impact within a containing approach. Within the service there are opportunities for development and training in various therapeutic approaches, and all new starters will be provided with a full induction and opportunities to shadow the team and to learn about the various departments/teams within the SET CAMHS model.

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COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

We are particularly looking for clinicians who can meet the following criteria:

- Skilled in assessment, formulation, management and delivery of therapy to people experiencing acute mental health crisis in both community and hospital settings
- Experienced in assessing and managing clinical risk, drawing on dynamic case formulation skills and working collaboratively with service users to agree their treatment and safety plans
- Possess a current Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapist, Counselling, Psychotherapy or equivalent professional qualification and be skilled and experienced in the delivery of evidence-based approaches to therapy (including DBT/CBT/Systemic & Creative therapies).
- Having knowledge, understanding and experience of working with the legal frameworks which relate to the care and treatment of children and young people, with particular reference to Children Act 1989, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended in 2007)
- Flexibility to work within a service which operates 7 days a week 365 days per year which includes unsociable hours
- Are flexible in practice and approach and able to carry out high quality Mental Health and Risk Assessments and deliver talking therapy and aforementioned evidence-based informed interventions in a variety of settings, including young people’s homes, colleges, schools, community settings and A&Es
- Able to formulate specific highly specialist care and treatment plans, providing skilled and specialist interventions and care to young people with complex mental health problems. Completing detailed written assessments in a timely manner.
- Have a passion and enthusiasm for delivering high quality care to young people and their families
- The use and management of clients electronic records.
- Managing busy or complex workloads as part of a team.

SET CAMHS (Southend, Essex and Thurrock CAMHS) is looking to recruit an enthusiastic CAMHS Intensive Support Service (ISS) Pathway Worker.

Qualifications and Experience

This post is open to Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychological Therapists (BACP, UKCP, PTUK, HCPC), Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMN's), Occupational Therapists (OT), Social Workers. Any additional qualifications in therapeutic approaches such as DBT, EMDR, CBT, MBT, NVR, SFT would also be desirable.

The practitioner will be responsible for providing outreach evidence-based intervention to young people and families within the Intensive Support Service Community Pathway under the Thrive model. Our crisis service offers support to those young people attending A&E, those who are supported by the community SET CAMHS teams, and young people who are discharged from Tier 4 mental health Units. We are looking for clinicians who are confident in working with complex presentations such as trauma, emotional dysregulation, suicidal ideation/self-harm a



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