Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Evenings and Weekends)
- Job ref
- 040-NMR281-0424
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Cadoc's Hospital
- Town
- Caerleon, Newport
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Emergency Liaison Practitioner
Band 6
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
A position has arisen for a full-time band 6 Emergency Liaison Practitioner (37.5 hours pw), to work with the S-CAMHS Emergency Liaison Team, based at White Valley Centre, St Cadoc's Hospital. The ELT team is part of the CAMHS Emergency Pathway, along with the Crisis Outreach Team, and the Intensive Support and Engagement Team (ISET).
Main duties of the job
The ELT aims to work intensively with families, young people and other agencies in order to provide person centred assessment at times of psychiatric emergency. The provision is currently 7 days per week. We work closely with young people and other agencies pre-crisis, and post crisis, using a range of therapeutic approaches and interventions, aiming towards preventing suicide and managing psychiatric risk. The post will require the successful applicant to deliver skilled and robust emergency assessments for young people and families. The post is open to qualified clinicians with significant post-registration CAMHS experience.
The post-holder will develop and deliver evidence based emergency assessments, and will be required to work closely with families, across a range of clinical settings. The post holder will be required to respond to calls from professionals who contact CAMHS via our consultation line, seeking advice. The post holder will also be required to offer evidence based follow up work with young people experiencing extreme psychological distress. The successful applicant will possess a range of evidence based therapeutic skills, and will be able to demonstrate the ability to work in a multi agency and multi-disciplinary way.
The successful applicant will be prepared to work out of hours, and on weekends, according to service needs.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker AMP.
- CAMHS specific module, CBT, Family Therapy, psychotherapy, psychosocial Interventions.
- Evidence of continuous professional Development.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/mentoring qualification.
- Breakaway Training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience at a Band 5.
- Evidence supervising and developing junior staff.
- Evidence of team leading junior staff.
- Evidence of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Engagement within service audits.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working within Psychiatric Liaison or Crisis Team.
- Experience in assessing risk and risk management.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to undertake a comprehensive CAMHS Assessment and WARRN risk formulation.
- Experience of working with children or young people who have serious mental disorders and engage in risk taking behaviours.
- Experience of working within a multiagency environment.
- Communicate verbally and effectively with service users, managers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to plan and coordinate multi-disciplinary care programme.
- Able to develop and maintain professional relationships within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to use a high degree of professional autonomy.
- Effective skills and knowledge of mental disorder, risk assessment and management.
- Working knowledge of a range of psychological interventions.
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act and Children’s Act.
Desirable criteria
- Good risk management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dave Pope
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 436831
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