CAMHS Liaison Senior Practitioner

The Senior Practitioner role is to provide strong clinical leadership, ensuring evidence-based practice is delivered to improve the quality of and shape responsive services. They are responsible for monitoring and ensuring maintenance of standards of care that support safe high-quality practice through an episode of care. The role has four key themes: Consultation, Liaison, Supervision, Training and Clinical work.

Within the clinical time the post holder will provide a rapid assessment and short-term intervention for young people presenting in mental health crisis at the local acute hospital and will work within the principles of the agreed model of care for the service as laid down in the operational policy.

The post holder will work as an autonomous and accountable practitioner within an integrated team. This will involve the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the care provided and effective liaison with all agencies involved with the service user.

The successful candidate will undertake rapid crisis assessments for young people referred through the general hospital providing short crisis intervention and signpost to other specialist services as required. In this they will demonstrate a high level of skill in assessing and managing risk.They will be able to formulate and convey sensitive, complex, and sometimes unwelcome information to clients and other professionals and manage this as constructively as possible. They will be able to identify when a biopsychosocial assessment is required and when a risk-review or advice and guidance to parents and carers are appropriate. The successful candidate will be able to participate in and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies as required.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively across the CAMHS directorate and partnership agencies. They will develop and maintain positive working relationships with all internal and external partners and stakeholders.They will identify and maximise on opportunities for consultation, specialist advice and training to professionals who come into contact and who have an important influence with children and young people who have mental health needs.

The successful candidate will have effective written communications skills to support the success of the clinical duties above. They will ensure documentation and care plans are comprehensive, timely, accessible and informative for the reader.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

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