CAMHS Crisis Practitioner

Job overview

Following additional funding into our CAMHS Liaison and Crisis Team, we are excited to be expanding our staff team.

The crisis service provides integrated, high quality assessment, support and interventions in and out of hours. We work closely with the Adolescent teams and borough based clinical teams across the three boroughs, as well as with tier 4 (inpatient services) which are provided by the South London Partnership.  The crisis team is multidisciplinary, and is supported by a team manager, consultant nurse, operational manager and a full time Consultant Psychiatrist.

The pathway is made up of the Crisis Team, DBT Team and the Intensive Home Treatment Team.

Main duties of the job

• To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
• To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multi- disciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed
• To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability
• To  develop  effective  crisis  plans  with  individuals  which  will  improve  their  future resilience
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner
• To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
• To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards
• You will work closely with colleagues within the crisis team, borough CAMHS services and wider colleagues across the South London Partnership. In addition, there will be opportunity to work closely with acute trust and social care colleagues.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
• To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
• To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to the multi-agency network.
• To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
• To gate keep all referrals to inpatient services to test their suitability for home treatment as an alternative to admission.
• To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
• To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability.
• To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
• To provide phone advice to people in crisis.
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
• To carry out assessments of mental capacity as required to do so.
• To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
• To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.
• To work extended hours within a two shift system over seven days per week.