Job summary
Join our CYPMH (CAMHS) team as a Triage and Assessment Practitioner in South Cumbria, transforming children and young people's mental health. We're seeking a Triage and Assessment Practitioner to pioneer a role in our new CYPMH access hub. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality assessments, clinical interventions, and leading clinical governance and quality improvement.
With your help, we're deliver a new integrated Thrive model, which will revolutionise the CYPMH service and transform young lives.
Main duties of the job
Your Role:
Deliver high-quality, timely, and accessible assessments, manage a clinical caseload, and provide brief clinical interventions.
Contribute to high-quality service delivery, ensuring responsive and personalised care.
Provide and receive clinical supervision, enhancing service quality.
Engage in partnership building, quality improvement, and clinical governance.
Work alongside our expert Team Leaders, Service Integration Managers, and Senior Clinical Leads.
We're Looking For:
Passionate Registered Nurses, Social Workers, or Occupational Therapists
Join Us:
Full-time roles with flexible hours, including weekends and bank holidays.
Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people and be part of this life-changing work!
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. First level qualification, Registered Nurse (Mental Health or Child) or Qualified Social Worker or Occupational Therapy
2. Information technology skills sufficient to the undertaking of the post
Knowledge
Essential
3. An ability to think systemically and holistically
4. Demonstrable Knowledge and skills in evidence based needs led assessments, of highly complex and co-morbid presentations of children, young people, their families and carers
5. Demonstrable Knowledge and skills in evidence based therapeutic interventions relevant to the needs of this client group
6. Demonstrable ability to communicate to clients, their families and professionals sensitive and often difficult to receive information, using various methods including verbal, non-verbal, written and presentation skills
Experience
Essential
7. A minimum of 12 months experience of working within Children and Young Peoples Mental Health
8. Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of Child Mental Health
9. Evidence of an ability to effectively manage own workload and able to work autonomously
10. Working within a team and /or multi-agency arenas