CAMHS Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Job overview

The CYP Mental Health Liaison team are a service that went live March 2023.  We are an additional service within the CYP Urgent Care teams and work closely with the CAMHS Crisis and enhanced treatment service (CCETT) and the CYP Eating Disorder Service!

The role of the team is to support children and young people (CYP) accessing our medical areas at the hospital, including A&E, paediatrics, and the hospital wards at Lincoln County Hospital (LCH) and Pilgrim Hospital Boston. (PHB) with a priority of timely face to face assessments as well as well as support CYP admitted to a ward with a mental health need. We are also building links with ULHT teams with a view to improved joint working and mental health training to their staff.

Shifts will be 08.00am-20:00pm and 19:30pm-7.30am. MH liaison workers will work closely with CAMHS CCETT staff to ensure a 24-hour service is offered for CYP experiencing a mental health crisis, including phone support out of hours to those on the case load, support to those accessing medical care or emergency care through ULHT or the MHUAC (Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre) and S136 suite.

Please note this is a fixed term post for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

Operational hours are shifts over 24 hours, 7 days per week.

Provide rapid response to CYP presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations, including mental health and eating disorder/disordered eating presentations.

Respond to referrals within one hour, triage/assess within 4 hours. Utilise methods available such as phones, Microsoft Teams or face to face depending on the location, presentation of CYP and team resources.

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To maintain positive working relationships between CAMHS CCETT, Adult MH liaison and ULHT hospital teams.

Offer training, support and clinical supervision to paediatric colleagues.

Work with CCETT to complete urgent emergency mental health and risk assessments for CYP presenting at LCH and PHB. Offer a robust triage and assessment service.

Build effective relationships within the adult MH liaison team to share skills, good practice and enhance team working.

Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis. Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people and other workers involved in care delivery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Cheryl Goodwin, via email at [email protected] or by telephone 01522 535189.