CAMHS Liaison Practitioner
4 days ago
Job summary
An exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS Liaison Team at Portsmouth Hospital, as a band 6 CAMHS Liaison Practitioner. The role offers a unique chance to work in a team that champions restorative practice, fosters an inclusive culture, and encourages innovative approaches to supporting young people and families in crisis within an acute hospital setting. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to and shape new initiatives that make a real difference.
The team are also open to offering the right candidate, the opportunity to join the team as a band 5 CAMHS Liaison Practitioner, with development to band 6.
The CAMHS Liaison Service is an acute mental health crisis assessment service, based at QA hospital. It offers the following:
Assessment of children and young people who have presented at QA Hospital with acute mental health concerns such as self-harm, overdose and suicidal ideation
Liaising and building positive relationships with hospital staff and wider network services such as social care and schools
Supervision and training for staff at QA hospital
Consultation and advice for staff at QA hospital and partner agencies
Safe discharge and follow up plan from QA Hospital
Main duties of the job
*Undertaking rapid crisis assessments for young people referred through the general hospitals and community referral pathway, providing short crisis intervention and signpost to other specialist services as required.
*Based on the assessment, to formulate and convey sensitive, complex, and sometimes unwelcome information to clients and other professionals and manage this as constructively as possible.
*To work as a senior practitioner providing clinically effective and therapeutic interventions for children, adolescents and their families considering the complexities of mental health problems. This requires an awareness of the potential impact of wider systems on individuals and families, requiring intense concentration over prolonged periods on a daily basis.
*To be able to assess and provide the appropriate format of intervention such as: individual, family or group work.
*Continually delivering and maintaining high standards of service provision that is evidence based and in line with recognised best practice.
*Participating and leading in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies as required.
*To provide consultation, specialist advice and training to professionals who come into contact and who have an important influence with children and young people who have mental health needs.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Nationally recognised core qualification RN,RMN, Social work, Psychology Professional Qualification at first degree level or equivalent Completion of further post-qualification specialist training at post graduate level
Experience
Essential
Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families/carers where appropriate as a full member of a multi-disciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatients, or inpatient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their families/carers across the whole range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. Post qualifying experience of working as a specialist mental health worker within a mental health setting. Experience of teaching and or training other professionals.-
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