CYP Crisis Mental Health Practitioner

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Telford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Telford seeks Band 6 practitioners for mental health crisis assessment and home treatment delivery for children and young people. Ideal candidates are registered Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, or Social Workers with community and ward experience. The role involves working in a 24-hour service, supporting assessments, care planning, and facilitating patient discharges in a multidisciplinary team.

Benefits

NHS Pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Flexible working options

Health and Wellbeing support

Free car parking

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, or Social Workers required.
• Experience in mental health community and ward settings.
• Knowledge of DBT, CBT, and risk management is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and care planning.
• Contribute to home treatment delivery.
• Support early discharge from hospital.
• Coordinate teamwork including triage and assessments.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Risk assessment

Care planning

Teamwork

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Occupational Therapist

Social Worker

Job description

Job Overview

Band 6 practitioners have a crucial role in assessing mental health crisis in children and young people referred to the service and supporting the delivery of safe and effective home treatment for an identified group and in accordance with that persons’ wellbeing and recovery action plan.

The main purpose of the role is to provide mental health assessment, risk assessment and treatment, with the primary focus of the work being the high‑quality assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a mental health issue within a physical healthcare setting, may have physical health conditions impacting upon their mental health.

You will be assessing a mental health crisis and delivering safe and effective home treatment for young people in accordance with their care plan and risk assessment. Assessing young people who present to our local acute trust, facilitate a holistic assessment along with robust safe discharging plan and risk management.

We would welcome applications from registered Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with service users and carers, evaluation of individual treatment plans and discharge planning.
• Contribution to the delivery of home treatment through nursing care to an identified community client group and within a multi‑disciplinary team.
• Support for and facilitation of early discharge from hospital.
• This is a 24 hour service which will involve shifts including weekends and nights.
• To coordinate the workload of the team on an as required basis.
• To provide an active involvement in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of service user care which focuses on ensuring that service users are supported to remain in their own homes wherever hospitalisation can be safely and appropriately avoided.
• To be responsible for an agreed caseload to be determined by the operational lead and reviewed under Clinical supervision.
• Triage and assess referrals received by service in liaison with multi‑disciplinary colleagues as appropriate. Formulate and action appropriate response based on need, risk and urgency. Respond to and inform referrers/other professionals and responsible adults as necessary on decisions, plans, policy and best practice. Record this on Trust systems (RIO and Safeguard).

Working for our organisation

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Options for flexible working.
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
• Free car parking at all trust sites.
• Free flu vaccinations every year.
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one‑off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like‑minded people. Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria: RNM, OT, Social Worker.

Desirable criteria

DBT, CBT, risk management.

Experience

Essential criteria: Mental health community experience, mental health ward based experience.

Desirable criteria: Child and adolescent mental health experience.