CAMHS Crisis Practitioner | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS healthcare provider in London is looking for a dedicated professional to join their mental health crisis team. You will assess and support individuals in crisis, coordinate care packages, and work closely with various health services. Ideal candidates have a strong background in psychosocial assessments and crisis management. This role requires flexible hours across a seven-day week.

Qualifications

• Confidence in using evidence-based interventions.
• Ability to co-ordinate individualized care packages.
• Experience in managing crisis situations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments for individuals in crisis.
• Gate keep referrals for inpatient services.
• Develop effective crisis plans to build resilience.
• Maintain clinical records in line with standards.

Skills

CYP IAPT principles

Bio psychosocial assessments

Risk assessment and management

Mental health consultation

Team collaboration

Job description

Overview

Following additional funding into our CAMHS Liaison and Crisis Team, we are expanding our staff team. The crisis service provides integrated, high quality assessment, support and interventions in and out of hours. We work closely with the Adolescent teams and borough-based clinical teams across the three boroughs, as well as with tier 4 (inpatient services) provided by the South London Partnership. The crisis team is multidisciplinary, and is supported by a team manager, consultant nurse, operational manager and a full time Consultant Psychiatrist. The pathway is made up of the Crisis Team, DBT Team and the Intensive Home Treatment Team.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. Our services include community healthcare such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We operate across the South of England, including London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services, providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

In this role, you will:

• To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence-based interventions and routine outcome measures.
• To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages/programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
• To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome-based triage model, to the multi-agency network.
• To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
• To gate keep all referrals to inpatient services to test their suitability for home treatment as an alternative to admission.
• To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
• To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability.
• To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
• To provide phone advice to people in crisis.
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
• To carry out assessments of mental capacity as required to do so.
• To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community-based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
• To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.
• To work extended hours within a two shift system over seven days per week.

Responsibilities also include:

• To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
• To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multi-disciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
• To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability.
• To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
• To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
• To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025