CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Practitioner

Navigo Health and Social Care CIC

The closing date is 20 October 2024

Job summary

Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist looking for a new challenge, or about to qualify with a professional registration and looking to start a career working with children and young people?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Crisis and Home Treatment Team, who work alongside the wider CAMHS service providing mental health support to young people and their families in NE Lincs.

This is a Band 5 to Band 6 development post with opportunities to enhance your skills, knowledge and experience. We offer lots of training and development opportunities including ASYE and preceptorship. We are a friendly supportive team with a focus on staff wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

This role will require you to provide care to young people experiencing a mental health crisis. Completing assessments of risk, formulating safety plans and care plans to support young people to remain in their community and receive care at home as an alternative to an inpatient hospital admission. Our team utilise excellent clinical skills to provide mental health support to children and young people, working closely with their families, carers and partner agencies at a time of crisis and to collaboratively care plan for any further interventions that may be required. This role will include team working and autonomous practice with responsibility for caseload management from first contact to discharge. Successful applicant will have the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge from all areas of the wider CAMHS service.

About us

Hello!

We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being. We are an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we featured in the Best Companies top 100 large company list and were named sixth best health and social care company 2023.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre and two cafes.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.

We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Come join us!

Date posted

02 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £44,962 a year band 5 to band 6 development position

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B9816-338-1

Job locations

Freshney Green Primary Care Centre

Sorrel Road

Grimsby

DN34 4GB

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools

Provide rapid response to children/young people presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations over a 24/7 rota including on-call duties, out of hours

Work as part of a team in providing intensive home treatment for young people at risk of hospital admission and to facilitate ongoing care and discharge from inpatient units.

Participate in the On-Call rota on a regular basis

Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis

Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning, individual and group interventions, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.

Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider children's services and to engage fully with Safeguarding, Common Assessment Framework and other processes which requires working together with other agencies

Proactively involve children/young people and their families/carers in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.

Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children/young people and families/carers.

Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.

Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.

Adhere to Navigo Policies in consideration of Children in Need and safeguarding issues and in maintaining accurate and effective written records.

Develop Band 5 staff and provide supervision/line management on all of the above.

Use outcome measures to evidence effectiveness of treatments provided.

Participate in management and clinical supervision.

Actively contribute to the ongoing development of clinical practice within the team.

Actively participate in the delivery of training opportunities for staff and students.

To be able to travel independently and work flexibly.

Manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with, and in order to contribute towards the attainment of, the Service / Navigo's productivity requirements including waiting times.

Participate in all clinical governance and audit developments including post registration education, training and continuing professional development.