Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Mental Health Liaison

Job overview

Are you looking for a role where you can make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families?

With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.

If you're a  Mental Health Nurse,  Occupational Therapists or Social Worker, we're looking for you to  join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team based at Salisbury CAMHS, Swindon and support the delivery of our Mental Health Liaison provision.

As a full time Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner you will work closely with our Liaison Lead and deliver Hospital Liaison at the acute district general hospital in Salisbury. You will provide day-to-day liaison and clinical support for the Liaison Service and ensure a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.

You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills.

You can start getting to know about us by having a look at our recruitment video:

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Main duties of the job

Salisbury CAMHS is  a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.

In this role, you will undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Salisbury.

Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role.

You can expect a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities to fully support the post holder in the role, ongoing in-house training and opportunities to attend external trainings.  The team fully supports and delivers regular managerial, professional, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assessment of deliberate self-harm
• Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
• Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
• Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified
• Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues)
• Provide a link to CAMHS within the acute District General Hospital.

Within the team, we work on a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays.  The flexible working patterns allows team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week.  You will participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis. There is a robust system of support available from on call colleagues  including the manager, consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please do contact us.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.  The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.