CAMHS Early Help Liaison Practitioner

Integrated Care System; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a band 6 CAMHS Liaison Practitioner to join an expanding team within the Early Help Pathway, working with children and families. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in delivering early interventions and consultations, promoting mental well-being, and collaborating with various community services. A professional registration and related experience in children's mental health are essential.

Benefits

Protected CPD time

Training pathways and leadership programs

Funding for qualifications

Smooth transition induction programs

Diversity and inclusion in hiring

Qualifications

• Post-registration experience working with children & young people with mental health difficulties.
• Experience in multi-agency working and risk management.
• Knowledge of I-THRIVE model.

Responsibilities

• Deliver consultation and advice as Liaison Practitioner.
• Implement evidence-based interventions for children's mental health.
• Co-ordinate training for schools and community services.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Crisis intervention

Team collaboration

Education

Core qualification in nursing, social work, OT, or psychology

Professional registration relevant to qualification (e.g., NMC)

Post-graduate training in working with children's mental health

Job description

37.5 hours per week. This is an exciting opportunity for band 6 professional registeredclinicians to join an expanding team working within CAMHS Early Help Pathwayworking with Children, Young people & families to work as a CAMHS Liaison Practitioner.

This role will be joining an already established team within the CAMHSservice. CAMHS Early Help pathway provide consultation, assessmentsand targeted, short term interventions up to 8 sessions within the I-THRIVEmodel with the focus being on early intervention within childrens mentalhealth. The post holder will work as thenamed Early Help liaison practitioner for schools within the locality, offeringconsultation, advice & signposting to services.

The post holder is responsible forsupporting the emotional, psychological & social wellbeing of children & young people with a drive for early intervention. The post holder will activelypromote resilience, prevention & early intervention to children & youngpeople .

The post holder will contribute to the CAMHS advice& support line.

This will be based on a hybrid model of workingwith access to office/ clinical space as well as some home working.

This role will require at relevant post qualification experience ofworking with children & young people within mental health or equivalent witha professional registration.

Main duties of the job

Work as the Liaison practitioner within the Early Help pathway to deliver consultation, advice & signposting to community services and schools working with children & young people with mental health difficulties.

Implementation of evidence based targeted interventions & groups evaluated using outcome measures. To ensure that they access timely assessments & interventions. Representing CAMHS in multi-agency meetings having oversight of mental health element.

Participate in the delivery of training for schools & community services. Maintain standards of care to highest level within available resources. To actively participate in line management with junior members of staff. To liaise effectively with the other CAMHS pathways. To develop and maintain relationships with all providers.

To maintain confidentiality in respect of the young people at all times. Communicate clearly with children & young people, their families and all other health professionals.

Actively participate in clinical governance & quality improvement initiatives. Ensure that children & young people are encouraged to play a part in decision making about the help they need, how they can access specific interventions promoting person-centred care.

All staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

Please note we may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline.

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

Job responsibilities

The postholder isresponsible for supporting the emotional, psychological and social wellbeing ofchildren and young people with a drive for early intervention, enablingcultural change in the way first contact services can support children andyoung people with mental health problems. In line with 2015 “Future in Mind”strategic vision for CAMHS the post holder will actively promote resilience,prevention and early intervention to children and young people in thecommunity. Thepost holder will work as the named Early Help liaison practitioner within thelocality. The post holder will directly link with the Children’s Gateway toscreen potential referrals, and be a direct link to GPs, primary schools andall other children’s services. Thepost holder will offer consultation about identified young people to the referrer,network or directly to the child, young person and their family. The postholder will be responsible for the co-ordination of further assessment,targeted intervention or group that would meet the needs of the child or youngperson. Thepost holder will co-ordinate training to community professionals and schools tomeet the specific needs of each setting or school and co-facilitate training whenappropriate.

To work as the identified Early Help Liaison practitionerto deliver early help consultation, advice and information sharing to communityservices and schools working with children and young people who may present with emergingmental health difficulties.

Co-ordination and implementation ofevidence based targeted interventions in a timely manner, in collaboration withthe other clinicians. To co-ordinate and contribute to the earlyhelp assessment clinics to ensure that children and young people access timelyassessments and the appropriate targeted interventions. Organisation and delivery of group basedneeds let groups within the school and community setting. To support thedelivery of evidence based parenting programmes for children and young peoplewith mental health issues. Take a lead in representing CAMHS in multi-agencymeetings such as EHAT, SEND, CIN meetings or child protection meetings toco-ordinate and have oversight of mental health element of a multi-agency planaround a child. To function as a member of the localityfacing CAMHS early help pathway taking appropriate responsibility for theimplementation of decisions made by the team. Ensure planned interventions are implementedeffectively and evaluated using Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROMS) and minimumdata set.

Participate in the delivery of trainingprogrammes for schools and community services from a portfolio of availableCAMHS training

Maintain standards of care to highestlevel within available resources.

To actively participate in linemanagement with senior and junior members of staff. To liaise effectively with the otherCAMHS pathways across the city.To develop and maintain relationshipswith providers statutory and non-statutory. To maintain confidentiality in respectof the young people at all times. Communicate clearly with children andyoung people, their families and all other health professional groups abouttheir health problems. Actively participate in clinicalgovernance and quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit, essence ofcare or clinical policy development.Ensure that children and young peopleare encouraged to play a part in decision making about the help they need andhow they can access specific interventions.This is to promote person-centred planning.

• Expert ability in receiving information, analysing and formulatingprofessional judgments.
• The post holder will provide assessment and other interventions inthe setting most appropriate to meet the children and young people’sneeds.
• Ability to match children and young people’s need with availableskills and resources.
• To the a lead role in the co-ordination of allocation of work withthe available skill mix utilising, prioritising, negotiation anddelegation skill for the identified schools in the locality.
• Liaise with other services to arrange appointments that both meetthe needs of child or young person and service demands.
• Confidence to travel in an urban environment
• Take a lead in early helpassessments. Formulate plans for appropriate interventions or to sign postto relevant services.
• Making appropriateagreed referrals for longer-term treatment and attending CAMHS coremulti-disciplinary meeting to discuss onward steps and to ensure oncorrect pathway.
• Take a lead role inclinical decision-making and collaborating with other team members in theprovision of children and young people’s care packages.
• Take a lead role in theidentification of risk and the formulation of risk management plans withinthe community setting.
• Provide education tochildren, young people and their families to enhance their knowledge ofmental health issues and management of this.
• Promote resilience andprevention of mental health issues.
• Maintain high standardsof clinical care to children, young people and their families.
• To liaise and work withother CAMHS pathways to ensure the needs of children and met by the rightteam, on the right pathway at the right time.

Mental Effort:

• Accurate manual and electronic record keeping whilst coping withconstant interruptions and distraction in the work place for example:telephone calls and questions from colleagues.
• Constantly deal with sensitive, intricate and complex clinical andservice decisions whilst frequently being required to change from oneactivity to another at a third party request, i.e. Telephone or staffinterruption and be able to respond in a positive and constructive mannerto emergency situations.
• Managing to extract information from people with communicationdifficulties due to acute distressing mental health problems, often innoisy or busy environments.

Emotional Effort:

• Ability to deal with childrenand young people with emerging mental health difficulties.
• People who self-harm.
• People who arepresenting in distress or with distressing thoughts and behaviours.
• People who are verydifficult to engage within a therapeutic relationship.
• Ability to cope withstress generated from the constant changing priorities within the Team.

• Emotional Effort:

  • Ability to deal with childrenand young people with emerging mental health difficulties.
  • People who self-harm.
  • People who arepresenting in distress or with distressing thoughts and behaviours.
  • People who are verydifficult to engage within a therapeutic relationship.
  • Ability to cope withstress generated from the constant changing priorities within the Team.
  Ability to make clinical decisions to meet theneeds of children and young people in the school/community setting

As this is acommunity post, it will involve working in a variety of different environmentsand will require the post holder must have the ability to adapt to thesesettings.

All employeeshave a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults and arerequired to act in such a way that at all times safeguards their health andwellbeing. Familiarisation with and adherence to national and localsafeguarding adults and children policies is an essential requirement upon allemployees. Livewell South-West has specific safeguarding policies and inaddition, employees also have a responsibility to practice and work within themulti-agency policy developed by the Safeguarding Adults Board and theSafeguarding Children Board. Staff are also required to participate in relatedmandatory/statutory training.

Person Specification

Experience

• Post-registration experience working with children & young people who have mental health difficulties
• Experience and knowledge of mental health assessments including risk management.
• Experience of effective working with families of different cultural backgrounds.
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Experience of managing own caseload and being an autonomous practitioner.
• Experience of working within children's mental health.
• Experience of supporting students
• Line management of junior staff members
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise
• Time management and meeting deadlines
• Experience in assessing mental health assessments including risk management
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Self-motivating
• Knowledge of legislation and policies relating to children's mental health
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Knowledge of I-THRIVE model
• IT skills and be familiar with various programmes

Circumstances

• Ability to travel across Plymouth
• Ability to work flexibly (hours of work and duties) both as an individual and across Livewell if required

Qualifications

• Core qualification in nursing, social worker, OT or psychology.
• Relevant experience post registration or experience as a band 6 working with children in mental health
• Professional registration relevant to qualification i.e. NMC
• Understanding & awareness of therapeutic principles to support with providing interventions within children's mental health
• Post graduate training qualification in working with children's mental health i.e. systemic practice, CBT, DBT
• Evidence of clinical supervisor & assessor training to support student nurses

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.

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working