CAMHS MH Liaison Practitioner
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
The post holder will act as liaison between CAMHS CCETT, Adult Mental health liaison service, Lincoln county hospital (LCH) and Pilgrim Boston hospital (PBH), including acute paediatrics. They will act as the link worker for the paediatric wards and be based within CAMHS CCETTS teams and MH liaison (at night) and provide liaison, signposting, support, robust triage and assessment for CYP accessing A&E departments or acute paediatric care across Lincolnshire. They will work alongside CCETT staff and adult mental health liaison to ensure there is 24 hour cover for CYP accessing acute general hospitals, including those CYP who are admitted for support with their eating and weight issues. The role will include any training or supervision ULHT staff may require when working with CYP presenting with mental health needs.
Main duties of the job
Operational hours are shifts over 24 hours, 7 days per week.
Provide rapid response to CYP presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations- including mental health and eating disorder/disordered eating presentations.
Respond to referrals within one hour, triage/assess within 4 hours- Utilise methods available such as phones, Microsoft teams or face to face depending on the location, presentation of CYP and team resources.
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.
To maintain positive working relationships between CAMHS CCETT, Adult MH liaison and ULHT hospital teams.
Offer training, support and clinical supervision to paediatric colleagues
Work with CCETT to complete urgent emergency mental health and risk assessments for CYP presenting at LCH and PHB. Offer a robust triage and assessment service.
Build effective relationships within the adult MH liaison team to share skills, good practice and enhance team working
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 collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people/carers and other workers involved in care delivery
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Date posted
28 February 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£33,706 to £40,588 a year £32,306 to £39,027 pa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
274-8087-SP
Job locations
Horizon Centre
Monson Street
Lincoln
LN5 7RZ
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Horizon Centre
Monson Street
Lincoln
LN5 7RZ
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