CAMHS Crisis Mental Health Practitioner

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Exley Head; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting to support young people in mental health crisis presenting in Accident & Emergency. The role involves clinical risk assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning, within a framework that includes community-based brief interventions for service users and families.

You will work with the Intensive Intervention Team and CAMHS pathways to coordinate care, with future rota-based shifts as we move to a 7-day service.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Experience with mental health crisis interventions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-standard mental health assessment and short-term contingency planning for young people in A&E.
• Deliver community-based brief interventions for service users, carers and families.
• Collaborate with Intensive Intervention Team and CAMHS pathways to coordinate care.
• Support flexible shift work as service expands to a 7-day model.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Mental health assessment

Job description

To provide a high standard of care through clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning to young people presenting in the Accident and Emergency Departments who are in mental health crisis.

Working within the community, providing a range of face-to-face brief solution focused interventions empowering service users, carers and their families in decision making and signpost to a range of health and social care resources for support.

The is opportunity to work alongside the Intensive Intervention Team and alongside other CAMHS pathways to facilitate appropriate intervention and care for clients and their families.

Please note that we are currently working towards offering a 7-day service which will require shift work on a rota basis in the future

We currently work 4 days a work 8am-6pm with a changeable non-working day.

The post requires enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who are willing to make a real change. Do you have a 'can do' attitude and are you quality focused? Are you enthusiastic, motivated and ready for a challenge, possess excellent communication and organisational skills?

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Core Values

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.