CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking a CAMHS Crisis Mental Health Practitioner. You will support young people experiencing mental health crises and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams. Ideal candidates will have relevant nursing or social work qualifications and be committed to providing compassionate care. The role offers full-time and part-time options, with a salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 annually.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Health and Wellbeing support

Employee-led staff networks

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification such as RMN or RNLD.
• Registration with relevant professional body.
• Post registration experience in CAMHS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess and support young people in crisis.
• Manage mental health risk and ensure safety.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to analyse complex information

Effective organizational and time management skills

Liaison and networking skills

Education

Registered Nurse, Dip SW or equivalent social work qualification

Allied Health Professional with appropriate accreditation

Job description

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team. Crisis and Home Treatment has an emphasis on being able to support in the most complex times of a young person’s life, and help them to stabilise their mental health. Working in collaboration with the CAMHS Liaison Team which focusses upon ensuring that anyone under 18 attending one of our acute hospital's Emergency Departments has timely access to a sound, high quality assessment for their mental health. Both services support young people and their families therapeutically to help them navigate through the period of crisis.

You must be a Registered Nurse, Dip SW or equivalent social work qualification (CSS, CQSW, DipSW, degree in social work), Allied Health Professional registered with the HCPC and accredited by a HCPC recognised body e.g. BABCP.

Please note that this post may not meet the pay level required for a Skilled Worker Visa.

Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Main Duties

As a CAMHS Crisis Mental Health Practitioner, you will:

• Work as part of an MDT to assess, formulate and support young people and their families when they are in a crisis situation and require access to mental health support. This may be in the community or in one of the acute hospitals.
• Offer targeted follow up interventions in a range of therapeutic modalities and training will be provided to help staff continue to build their careers.
• Manage mental health risk and work with the network around the young person to ensure safety and wellbeing.
• We are seeking and developing a highly skilled, experienced, compassionate, flexible and motivated workforce. To support this, we set high standards for the care and support we offer; this is supported by a robust induction period, a team-based approach to managing risk, on site and visible senior leadership support and specialist training opportunities. Full training will be provided.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

About Us

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

#TeamNottsHC

Job Details

Posted date: 07 November 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum (pro rata for part time)

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

Reference number: 186-1316-25-MH

Location: Hopewood, Foster Drive, Nottingham, NG5 3FL

Job Responsibilities

The CAMHS Urgent Care Teams, incorporating Crisis, Home Treatment and Liaison pathways, are welcoming, friendly and dedicated to ensuring that young people in a mental health crisis get access to the right support in the right place at the right time. The teams are busy, supportive and encouraging of new and creative ways to innovate and improve the service we deliver.

We are an 8 am to 8 pm service operating a self-rostering system for our staff.

The aim is to support Children and Young People in the community to avoid admissions to inpatient services and acute hospitals.

Our team works Long Days of 8am 8pm for the CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team (this team) and Nights of 8pm 8am for the CAMHS Crisis Liaison Team. Rotas are prepared well in advance and we aim to promote staff wellbeing and work/life balance.

Enhancements are paid for weekend and evening/night working.

Observe and adhere to the CAMHS Service Specification, vision, aims and objectives.

• Offer clinical assessment and evidence-based interventions whilst observing current best practice, legislation and guidance.
• Working within Children and Young Peoples Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) frameworks and principles.
• Aim to be innovative and creative in the delivery of therapeutic interventions/care bundle, and offer psycho-education to children, young people and families around their mental health crisis needs.
• Contribute to a shared team caseload whilst considering and adhering to safeguarding policies and procedures and national and local legislation and guidance.
• Offer support and supervision to junior colleagues and receive regular Clinical and Managerial supervision to maintain practice.
• Plan and successfully manage smooth transitions where they are clinically indicated.
• Seek support from the Clinical and Operational Leads and Clinical Nurse Specialists / Senior Specialist Practitioners where needed.
• Support peers and colleagues and promote a team working environment.
• Ensure suitable risk management and care plans are formulated for all clinical cases.
• Maintain contemporaneous records in alignment with Trust policy.
• Work in partnership with other teams within the Nottinghamshire and bordering CAMHS Services.
• To offer consultation through a range of initiatives to professionals with an aim of enhancing workforce skills, knowledge and capacity in recognising emotional/mental health and well-being needs and undertaking interventions with children and families to achieve positive outcomes.
• To participate in the delivery of a range of training programmes to multi-agency staff in conjunction with the CAMHS Training Lead.
• Support colleagues and stakeholders in tackling stigma relating to mental health.
• Be willing to undertake training relating to the CYP IAPT agenda and other areas of development as outlined.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is preferred for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential):

• Relevant Professional qualification e.g. RMN, RNLD, Allied Health Professional with appropriate accreditation
• Registration with relevant professional body

Qualifications (Desirable):

• Evidence of post registration learning and development.
• Additional relevant post graduate training.

Knowledge (Essential):

• Knowledge and understanding of theories and factors which contribute to the development of Children & Young Person's Mental Health Difficulties.
• Ability to maintain accurate case records in line with Trust policies and procedure.
• Be committed to anti discriminatory/anti oppressive practice and equal opportunity in regard to patient care and team practice.

Knowledge (Desirable):

• Knowledge or current policies, strategies and key indicators for the future and development of Child Mental Health Services.
• Ability to use electronic data recording systems.

Skills (Essential):

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to analyse complex information and present formulation to professional colleagues.
• Effective organisational and time management skills
• Information technology skills and experience
• Caseload Management
• Liaison and networking skills
• Commitment to organise and participate in Professional appraisal reviews.

Skills (Desirable):

• Engaged in professional development or formal training across a range of evidence-based practices.
• Experience of caseload management.

Experience (Essential):

• Relevant post registration experience in CAMHS, Acute Mental Health, Crisis Team, Liaison Psychiatry.
• Experience of Multidisciplinary and multiagency working
• Competency in completing comprehensive mental health assessment and assessment of risk.
• Experience in the development of robust care plans, risk management plans and safety plans.
• Experience in the development of robust care plans and risk management plans
• Understanding of responsibilities in relation to Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, CPA & Safeguarding.
• Competency in meeting the expected performance and data quality targets for the role in a timely manner and an understanding of the importance of this.
• Evidence of the ability to use and provide clinical supervision OR willingness to undertake training to do so.
• Proven ability to recognise and respond to identified safeguarding concerns
• The ability to maintain accurate, contemporaneous case records in line with Trust Policies & Procedures.
• Ability to be an autonomous practitioner whilst also being an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.

Experience (Desirable):

• Experience of crisis management
• Experience of coordinating day to day clinical activity, applying appropriate clinical decision making, triage and priority weighting.
• Experience in using Routine Outcome Measures (ROMS) in a clinical setting.
• Experience of delegation of clinical tasks and management of team diary
• Experience of working in a community based, mental health team.
• Experience of Liaison Psychiatry.
• Experience and ability to develop a rapport with and engage people around their emotional wellbeing including those with social communication / neuro diversity
• Experience of coordinating and participating in professionals' meetings, discharge coordination / planning meetings.
• Experience of delivering training to groups of professionals or facilitating parent / carer groups or youth focussed groups.

Training (Essential):

• Qualification in Student Practice Placement Assessor or Supervisor OR Willingness to complete.

Training (Desirable):

• Experience of support, mentoring and supervising students on placement.

Contractual Requirements (Essential):

• A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is preferred for this post

Values and Behaviours (Essential):

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer Details

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Hopewood, Foster Drive, Nottingham, NG5 3FL

Employer's website: https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/