Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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 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 signposting to other specialist services as required.
* Based on the assessment, formulating and conveying sensitive, complex, and sometimes unwelcome information to clients and other professionals and managing this as constructively as possible.
* Working as a senior practitioner providing clinically effective and therapeutic interventions for children, adolescents, and their families considering the complexities of mental health problems.
* Assessing and providing the appropriate format of intervention such as individual, family, or group work.
* 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.
* Providing consultation, specialist advice, and training to professionals who come into contact 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.
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 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Nationally recognised core qualification i.e. 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
* Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families/carers.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their families/carers across the whole 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year based on full-time hours.
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