Paediatric Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Come and join our team

We are a growing, thriving and innovative Children’s Emergency Department (CED)

Our vision is: To be a world leading children’s emergency department providing the best care for all children.

The CED team consists of a comprehensive medical team, skill mix of nursing team, health care support workers and emergency nurse practitioners, mental health practitioner, reception admin staff.

The current clinical facilities comprise: a 3 bay resuscitation room (2 trolleys and 1 baby resuscitaire), and 12 clinical spaces. One of these clinical spaces has been transformed into a soft space which is used for those children and young people with mental health needs, learning difficulties and motor difficulties and neurodiversity.

CED has an opportunity to welcome a specialist role of Band 7 Mental Health Practitioners working across the week. Our vision is to provide expert in-house mental health care and assessment.

Main duties of the job

The role will provide initial assessment, consultation, advice and signposting, integrated as part of multi-disciplinary whole person assessment. These children and young people can present as a primary mental health crisis or a secondary mental health need.  The role also involves cross department working to assess 16–17-year-olds in the adult emergency department. A central role will be liaison with other services (including General Practice) to support the care with acute, chronic or co-existing emotional and mental health needs, presenting to CED. The individual must be confident in making admission or discharge decisions.

Avon & Wiltshire Mental health partnership (AWP) CAMHS intensive outreach team (CIOT), are our closely interfaced partners for planning care & safe, timely transfers and discharges.

Additionally, focus is on an approach which is multi professional, meeting both primary and secondary mental health presentations collaboratively within CED.

You will be supported by the CED Consultant lead for mental health, the Hospital senior nurse - lead for mental health and CIOT Hospital Team manager.

We welcome applications from qualified mental health professionals including Registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists & clinical psychologists who have appropriate experience of mental health assessment and risk assessment. We are also interested in graduates from a relevant discipline with substantial mental health service provision.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy