CAMHS Crisis Team Mental Health Practitioner Leicester

Job summary

The CAMHS Crisis Team provides specialist mental health crisis support to children, young people and their families/carers across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The service operates from three sites: the Urgent Care Hub at Bradgate Mental Health Unit, the Children's Emergency Department at Leicester Royal Infirmary, and the Valentine Centre in Beaumont Leys.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate practitioner to join our Children and Young People's Crisis and Home Treatment Service. In this role, you will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, develop clinical formulations and provide brief interventions for children and young people experiencing a crisis, ensuring they feel supported, understood and involved in their care.

As Lead Professional for young people receiving home treatment, you will coordinate and deliver high-quality, person-centred care, assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing specialist care plans. Working closely with families, carers and partner agencies, you will help ensure timely and effective support that promotes recovery, resilience and positive outcomes.

You will use your clinical judgement to assess risk, make informed decisions and provide interventions that meet the needs of young people and their families. Strong communication, assessment and risk management skills are essential, as is the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

This is a community-based role requiring travel across the service area. Applicants must have access to suitable transport, as public transport alone may not meet service requirements.

For an informal discussion, please contact Christine Asumang at christine.asumang1@nhs.net or Astyn Tinkler at astyn.tinkler@nhs.net.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer.