Senior CAMHS Crisis Practitioner Band 7 — Impactful Youth

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Greater London

On-site

GBP 58,000 - 65,000

Full time

41 hours ago

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Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist CAMHS Crisis Practitioner (Band 7) to deliver high quality assessments and targeted interventions for children and young people in crisis. You will manage a caseload across home, community, and hospital settings, providing expert guidance to families and collaborating with other professionals.

The role requires comprehensive risk assessments, development of safety and coping plans, and delivery of brief evidence-based crisis interventions

Responsibilities

To effectively triage and accept referrals to the service, liaising with other professionals and providing initial advice.
To provide comprehensive mental health and risk assessments of children, young people and their families/carers referred in crisis.
To manage risk by putting in place care plans, safety & coping plans and other risk interventions in a variety of settings, e.g. at home, in the community or in hospital settings
To provide brief evidence-based crisis interventions to children, young people and families referred to the service, that aim to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe early discharge from inpatient mental health wards or acute services – including individual and group work
To engage in assertive outreach work with children/young people and their families where appropriate and inreach work where children/ young people are admitted
Based on assessments and reports convey sensitive, complex and sometimes unwelcome information to patients and other professionals about risks, both verbally and in written form, and manage this as constructively as possible.
To act as care coordinator for an identified caseload and to be responsible for the coordination of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic packages of care provided by HTT.
To manage a clinical caseload independently within appropriate clinical/professional guidelines and to seek consultation where necessary with the relevant line manager and lead clinicians of specialist teams.
To act as a care coordinator in accordance with CPA guidelines within the CAMHS community setting.
To provide packages of care, group-work and psychoeducation for the young people and their families/ carers that takes account of the complexities of family systems and their significant social networks.
To ensure that the needs of the client group is paramount, and to and adhere to local community and hospital guidelines relating to Safeguarding and Child Protection.
To ensure acceptable levels of safety (regarding potential verbal and physical aggression from disturbed clients) for self and to advise other colleagues when necessary.
To adhere to the “lone worker policy “and update training in breakaway techniques when necessary.
To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop work with families by providing highly specialist knowledge and skills.
To be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
To carry out work demanding intense sustained concentration and analysis, often with time and other pressures.
To be able to work in emotionally demanding environments and/or difficult working conditions.
To manage exposure to hostile, antagonistic or highly emotional atmospheres and verbal aggression, and to recognise and diffuse any risk of physical aggression.
To access the available support and supervision to cope with the emotional effects of working with potentially highly distressed and traumatised clients.
To provide a service to clients, that is collaborative and takes into account their individual, psychological, physical and social needs, including issues to do with disability and beliefs about mental health.
To work in ways which are actively anti-racist sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, ethnic, cultural, religious and social backgrounds and to develop with colleagues innovative ways of meeting these needs. This includes an ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, extended families, blended families, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care and children who are subject to Child Protection plans
To maintain accurate clinical records in accordance with service standards and to record and maintain patient data in local database systems, RiO, EPR and Millennium. To record relevant information at the time of referral, during ongoing work, and for evaluation purposes as consistent with the policies and protocols of the NHS and the relevant hospital and the Trust.
To ensure all incidents are reported in accordance with Trust policy and learning from SUIs and complaints is proactively managed and used to influence change in clinical practice.