Main area: CAMHS Crisis Intervention & Home Treatment Team Registered RNMH/RNLD or AHP
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent - Role involves shift work over 7 days and some on call
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift pattern 08:00-20:00 7/7)
Job ref: 285-6765-CYPF
Employer: Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Elms, Dudley
Town: Halesowen
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/11/2024 08:00
NHS AfC: Band 6
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
* Adult and older adult mental health services
* Specialist learning disability services
* Mental health services for children and young people
* Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in an NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience.
Job overview
Come and join our forward-thinking and innovative CAMHS Crisis Intervention & Home Treatment Team. Be part of a pro-active, responsive and friendly service and make a difference to Children and young people’s lives at point of mental health crisis.
We are a Black Country-wide service consisting of 4 locality teams. The teams consist of mental health, learning disability and children’s nurses as well as social workers, Consultant psychiatrists and clinical fellows. We offer a service 08:00-20:00, 7 days a week with additional on-call duties 20:00-08:00 to cover the 136 suite when in use and the 24/7 mental health helpline for U18’s helping to support any emergency contact outside of usual working hours.
Main duties of the job
* To provide emergency assessments in the acute hospital and other settings including YP’s home.
* To constantly consider creative safe options to CYP in mental health crisis.
* Provide an extended level of support in conjunction with Core CAMHS/CAMHS ED to support young people at home and avoid hospital admission.
* Provide urgent assessment and intervention to young people who are not known to CAMHS.
* Support young people whilst inpatient and with stepping down from a hospital admission back into the community.
* Advice and signposting to other agencies regarding appropriate responses and pathways into services.
* Managing and responding to CAMHS 136 suite and supporting the 24/7 mental health helpline for under 18’s.
* Assess young people in Crisis, develop their care plan and ascertain if there is a need for hospital admission or offer home treatment/crisis intervention packages of care.
* Liaise with internal and external teams and partners to ensure an appropriate level of support and transition following crisis episode of care.
Person specification
* NMC Registration or other relevant professional registration body.
* Experience of working with children and young people with mental health problems.
* Previous experience in a similar role.
* Ability to travel across sites.
We positively welcome applications from people who represent diverse communities.
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