CAMHS Senior Practitioner inHereford inHereford PUBLISHED WED 6 NOV 2024

One of the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions is to improve the provision of crisis assessment and brief response within the Emergency Department (ED) and in community settings. Offering Children and Young People (CYP) assessment, alongside Intensive Home Treatment services for those who might otherwise require inpatient care.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust are developing a consistent home treatment provision, across Herefordshire. This team operates 7 days a week between the hours of 8am and 8pm. The teams will offer an Intensive Home Treatment service aimed at CYP who might otherwise require inpatient care, or intensive support that exceeds the normal capability of a generic children and young peoples mental health community team.

The role will be a little unpredictable, as you can be called at any time during a working day to support in a crisis. We will complete comprehensive risk assessments for every CYP; these can be completed independently although will often discuss patients that are more complex as a Multi-disciplinary team. The team works hard to provide a fully integrated service for our CYP, so it is not just about making sure their needs are catered for while they are in crisis, but also within the wider system. We talk to families and carers, GPs, community mental health teams, social care teams and voluntary organisations, and ensure the most appropriate follow up support is in place, be this through an intensive home treatment package from the team, or Core CAMHS or through the voluntary sector.

Research indicates that a more timely response to treating YP regarding their mental health leads to them being less likely to require long term mental health support, so this is an amazing opportunity to support the YP and their families within Herefordshire.

About us

The post holder will:

• Operate as part of a multidisciplinary team providing Crisis Intervention and Intensive Home Treatment to CYP countywide.
• Operate as part of a multidisciplinary team providing Crisis Intervention and Intensive Home Treatment to CYP countywide.
• Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to CYP.
• Proactively engage in formal and informal education of Acute Trust staff and other partnership agencies, families and children and young people.
• Actively and creatively engage CYP and carers encouraging them to make appropriate use of the mental health, social care and voluntary services available as part of a process of recovery and crisis management.
• Undertake full psychosocial assessments with those in need of such. Ensuring thorough, precise and timely documentation and dissemination of information in line with Trust policy and procedure.
• Undertake a supervisory role to junior staff in line with trust policy and procedure.
• Undertake acute risk assessment and safety planning for extremely vulnerable client groups during times of crisis.
• Deliver High quality, evidence based care to a defined team caseload
• Proactively support the prevention of YP requiring long-term mental health hospital beds, also encouraging and engaging in early discharge from same, should the need had been identified.

Our commitment is to ensure you have appropriate Continued professional development and quality supervision and Appraisal to ensure you are able to reach your full potential. We welcome new ideas and training opportunities, should they be in line with your job role and will help to encourage, empower and support our CYP and you, as a member of the team to ensure job satisfaction and fulfilment.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.