CAMHS Urgent Care Practitioner

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Calow; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Calow is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join their CAMHS Urgent Care Team. The role involves assessing and treating children and young people presenting with mental health crises. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and demonstrate experience in child care practice. This is a fixed-term position offering a salary between £38,682 and £46,580 per annum.

Qualifications

• Experience of assessing and managing mental health risk.
• Relevant experience with severe mental health needs.
• Post qualification courses in child care practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health assessments for children under 18.
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team in urgent care.
• Develop and implement safety plans.

Skills

Communication skills

Knowledge of mental health legislation

Ability to de-escalate situations

Education

Degree or Diploma qualification in relevant profession

Registered Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist

Job description

CAMHS Urgent Care Practitioner

The closing date is 30 November 2025

Do you want to be part of a forward thinking, well respected, fast moving, multi-disciplinary young person's Urgent Care Team? Can you deliver compassionate care to those young people that present in mental health crisis?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our CAMHS Urgent Care Team in North Derbyshire. The Team is a well-established part of the wider CAMHS Service and is a supportive, well organised team with a culture of friendly, multi-disciplinary work based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

You will have experience of direct work with children and young people who have mental health problems and you will be adept at undertaking mental health assessments and interventions. You will have the necessary knowledge in assessing risk and drawing up robust safety plans.

You will have a core professional qualification eg Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or HCPC registered AHP.

Main duties of the job

The Urgent Care Team provides a rapid response service to children and young people and families who are presenting with acute mental health or emotional disturbance to a degree where the risk they pose indicates that an inpatient admission may be required.

You will offer mental health and risk assessment, formulation and brief intervention with those young people under 18 who are presenting with urgent mental health needs. The team operate between the hours of 08am-11pm over seven days with plans to develop 24 hour on-call cover (NHS Agenda for change pay enhancements apply.)

About us

Working for your organisation

The team have well established links with Paediatrics, our ED Department, and Children's Social Care, Education and other partner agencies across North Derbyshire.

Whilst you care for our young people and families, in turn we recognise the importance of caring for you – clinical supervision, career & personal development and health & wellbeing support are all core to our service. If you're keen to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, come and talk to us about how we could support that.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RN or Registered Social Worker or registered OT Evidence of continuing professional development
• Degree or Diploma qualification in relevant profession as above
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Post qualification courses in child care practice or therapeutic work with children and families

Skills and Knowledge

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach and Risk Assessment.
• Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children's Services and mental health
• Good understanding of child and adolescent development
• Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties.
• Highly developed communication skills including the ability to de-escalate situations involving high expressed emotion
• Knowledge and application of standardised assessments and outcome measures.
• Keyboard skills and use of IT packages
• Knowledge of and skills in using a variety of approaches and methods as required to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations.
• Skills in receiving and providing supervision

Experience

• Experience of assessing and managing mental health risk.
• Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including severe and enduring mental ill health
• Experience of using evidence based practice.
• Experience of working in CAMHS.
• Experience of the application of psychological therapies in home/community environments.
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of service evaluation and audit

Personal Attributes

• Highly motivated & able to engage with patients & carers to improve outcomes.
• Qualities essential to clinical practices eg respect, genuineness and personal integrity.
• A car driver with full current driving licence and own transport. For disabled applicants suitable alternative arrangements many be agreed if necessary.
• Be prepared to work as a lone worker in community settings.
• Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.

Demonstrates Trust Values

• Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement

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.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

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