In this hands-on position, you’ll employ your clinical expertise to conduct comprehensive assessments and offer home treatment solutions as an alternative to hospitalisation. You will collaborate closely with young individuals in crisis, their families, and a network of professionals, ensuring a seamless pathway to recovery. With opportunities to drive service improvements and influence care delivery, your contributions will be invaluable in nurturing their well-being. If you're a registered professional with experience in mental health or working with young people, we would love to hear from you. Embrace the chance to make a real impact—apply now and help shape brighter futures for the young people in our care!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Community Practitioner to work in the Northumberland and North Tyneside Universal Crisis team -Young Persons Pathway. The team is currently based at St Georges Park Hospital, Morpeth.
We are looking to recruit a community practitioner who is passionate about the role and who will be encouraged to be involved in service improvement and the delivery of care ensuring an enhanced, seamless service.
The team works with children, young people and their carers up to the age of 18 years old, with the principal objective of offering assessment and home treatment for young people experiencing a mental health crisis, as an alternative to hospital admission. The post holder will have clinical expertise in assessment, intervention, and evaluation in mental health care. The role will involve the Biopsychosocial assessment of young people who have presented in crisis. They will be required to provide specialist advice regarding mental illness to service users, carers and other practitioners.
The successful candidates will have responsibility for the effective management of a shared caseload of children and young people referred into the service, The service provides the following functions: urgent triage, assessment, home based treatment, facilitating early discharge from hospital, and supporting the coordination of Section 136 referrals for young people under the age of 18.
The team offers a Enhanced Follow Up Pathway, this is for any young person who presents in a psychiatric crisis to an Acute trust that requires assessment from our colleagues in Psychiatric Liaison Services. The team also provides a follow up pathway for 18-25yrs olds who present to Northumberland Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) in a psychiatric Crisis. Within the pathway we can offer up to three follow up appointments to determine safety plans and onward pathways.
We work closely with other professionals such as CAMHS, CYPS, Schools, LA, PMHW and Police to ensure the young people in are care are fully supported and safeguarded.
The service operates 365 days per year over a 24hr period, with shifts being allocated to meet service requirements.
The applicant should hold a professionally registered qualification and preferably have experience of working with children, young people and families. It is also essential that they will have experience of working within a mental health/ learning disability area.
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Advertising date : 20th February 2025
Closing date : 6th March 2025
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