Job overview

Join our pioneering award-winning First Response Service as a CAMHS Crisis Care Mental Health Practitioner. Our team are based in Huntingdon, providing 24-hour access to mental health services for people who identify or have been identified as being in a mental health crisis.

We need your expertise in working with children, young people and their families to support us in providing the best possible care for our service users. When we receive referrals for children and young people you will lead on these assessments and support the wider team to work with these young people and their families.  

This is an exciting role which will support you to develop your clinical skills and develop a comprehensive view of the system. Understanding the system and building good relationships with partner agencies such as the police, ambulance and local authority services is a key aspect of this role but also provides you with a fantastic foundation for future development. You will be expected to work closely with other community agencies to develop a short-term contingency plan for people presenting in a mental health crisis.

Main duties of the job

If you are successful, you will be providing holistic and brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning over the phone whilst working closely with other CAMHS services and navigating the CAMHS crisis pathways currently in place.

You will support the wider team in working with those of all ages, this will involve telephone triage and working within the community providing face-to-face assessments and working closely with other teams and agencies. 

We will expect you to use a range of brief solution-focused interventions, to empower service users, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support.

As a service we value our staff development, we meet weekly for development sessions organised by our practice educator. We also look to provide annual training and development opportunities for the whole team, last year our front-line staff undertook DBT training. You would also have the opportunity to take part in development opportunities offered by the Trust, such as AMHP training and non-medical prescribing.

We work in shifts to provide 24-hour support and as a CAMHS practitioner within the team you can expect to work late shifts (11am to 11pm).

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk