CAMHS Urgent Care Practitioner

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Calow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in North Derbyshire seeks a Mental Health Practitioner for its CAMHS Urgent Care Team. The role involves providing mental health assessments and interventions to children and young people in crisis. Candidates should have a core professional qualification and experience in mental health settings. This position offers opportunities for development and is part of a supportive multi-disciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with mental health problems.
• Adept at undertaking mental health assessments and interventions.
• Knowledge in assessing risk and drawing up safety plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide rapid response service to acute mental health cases.
• Conduct mental health and risk assessments for young people.
• Formulate and implement brief interventions.

Skills

Mental health assessments

Intervention techniques

Risk assessment

Education

Core professional qualification (Nurse, Social Worker, OT, or AHP)

Job description

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.)