CAMHS Emergency Liaison Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This full-time Band 6 Emergency Liaison Practitioner position is within the Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (S-CAMHS) Emergency Liaison Team. The role involves providing person-centred assessments during psychiatric emergencies for young people and families, working intensively with them and other agencies. The post-holder will deliver skilled emergency assessments, offer evidence-based follow-up work, and respond to professional consultations. This role requires working out of hours and on weekends.
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
- 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.
- Previous experience working within Psychiatric Liaison or Crisis Team.
- Experience in assessing risk and risk management.
- Aptitude and Abilities
- 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.
- Good risk management
- Registered Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker AMP.
- CAMHS specific module, CBT, Family Therapy, psychotherapy, psychosocial Interventions.
- Evidence of continuous professional Development.
- Teaching/mentoring qualification.
- Breakaway Training
- 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.
- Previous experience working within Psychiatric Liaison or Crisis Team.
- Experience in assessing risk and risk management.
- Aptitude and Abilities
- 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.
- Good risk management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £40,559 – £48,841 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
CAMHS Emergency Liaison Practitioner
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
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 t
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