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 needs.
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 settings but also within 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.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Provide evidence-based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about your own professional practice.
Responsibility for the development, planning, and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual children and young people.
Provide assessment, planning, and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner.
Provide supervision to Band 4 Crisis Support Workers.
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.
Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on the latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
Act as the patients' and relatives' advocate.
Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss, and change.
Champion patients’ rights, including: dignity, equality, diversity, choice, and respect.
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.
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.
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have the use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
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