Senior CAMHS HTT Mental Health Practitioner

North London Mental Health Partnership; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the North Central London CAMHS Home Treatment Team as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This role involves providing high quality mental health care to young people in crisis, working within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver evidence-based support. The practitioners will engage with families and other agencies to ensure the best outcomes in challenging situations.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with established mental health skills.
• Experience in crisis response and multi-agency working.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based crisis interventions to young people.
• Conduct ongoing mental health and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams for optimal care.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Mental health assessments

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Clinical consultation

Evidence-based interventions

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse Qualification

Post-registration experience

Job description

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Central London CAMHS Home Treatment Team (NCL HTT) as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This is role is suitable for someone who is passionate about providing high quality mental health care to support young people and their families in times of crisis, who has established and accredited skills, post -registration, and who is able to adapt to crisis situations as and when they arise. The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will also need to be skilled at multi-agency working.

The NCL Home Treatment Team is a new service delivering high quality co-ordinated care to young people aged 13 up to 18th birthday and their families in mental health crisis across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. The service provides 12 weeks of intensive evidence-based support to prevent admission or facilitate safe early discharge from Tier 4 inpatient units. The team works in close collaboration with CAMHS Assertive Outreach Teams, Tier 4 inpatient units, local authorities, and emergency services. The post holder will work shifts to cover the service hours – 09:00-20:00 weekdays and 12pm-8pm weekends. The role primarily entails providing therapeutic assessments and brief interventions to children, young people and their families referred to the service.

• The post-holder will be expected to deliver flexible, high-frequency, evidence based crisis interventions such as ongoing mental health assessments, risk assessments, safety planning and problem solving in a collaborative fashion.
• Provide a clear, evidence based clinical perspective within the multi-disciplinary team and to referring agencies and external professionals.
• Be able to provide clinical consultation and liaison when appropriate and establish working clinical formulation through regular Multi-Disciplinary Team discussions.
• Help to deliver a service specialising in the care and treatment of children and young people with a range of complex mental health problems and disorders, requiring a crisis response and a period of safe stabilisation out in the community.
• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the provision of specialist child mental health interventions across a range of care provision to meet the needs of individuals, groups of individuals and families requiring intensive Home Treatment support.
• To focus on providing evidence based psychological interventions to young people who are suffering from serious mental illness, via a range of venues.
• Conduct appropriate specialist assessments of children, young people and their families/carers, evaluating the results and offering a range of therapeutic interventions as appropriate to the presenting clinical need.
  
  

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Ashogba Job title: HTT Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0208 702 4500

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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