CAMHS Crisis Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing specialist mental health assessment, intervention, and risk management for children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis. You will conduct comprehensive assessments across various settings, develop and deliver evidence-based care plans, and work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team. The position requires flexibility for a 24/7 rotational shift pattern, including days, evenings, weekends, and nights.
Essential criteria
- Theoretical and practical knowledge in areas of child and adolescent mental health and good awareness of key drivers in the field.
- Highly competent in making a decision regarding ongoing patient care based on clinical and risk factors.
- High level of problem solving and planning skills.
- Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management.
- Awareness of own competency level and how to seek appropriate help.
- Understanding of confidentiality and risk management
- Clinical audit, research and clinical governance principles.
- Have a good understanding of child protection/safeguarding policies, recording and reporting any concerns to the appropriate agency including participate in case conferences as required.
Desirable criteria
- Wider NHS and social care policy.
- Importance of public relations.
- Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies.
- Understanding of assessment of children suspected of having ADHD/ ASD
- Experience of delivering assessment, care and treatment within mental health services
- Demonstratable experience in supporting patients presenting in mental health crisis and working autonomously
- Experience of completing clinical risk assessments and offering support and management of presenting risks.
- Experience of working within a crisis service
- Working with service users and carers in service improvement
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with current registration post first assessed year of practice
- Current professional registration
- experience and training relevant to the management and assessment of risk
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Specialist Qualification in CBT, FT or other appropriate therapy Degree or equivalent
- A qualification, or have undertaken a program of formal training in Clinical Supervision
- Supervision training
- Ability / Skills to support change and improvement, support and inspire colleagues / act as a role model.
- Ability to motivate others, good planning and organisational skills.
- Good Assessment skills selecting treatment from a range of options.
- Able to manage caseload and to prioritise under time pressures for self and team.
- Good clinical reasoning skills Ability to work autonomously.
- Flexible approach to problem solving Multi agency team work.
- Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
- Effective communication skills both orally and in written form Providing clinical supervision.
- Time management.
- IT literate - use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and email and Internet.
- Manage a varied workload and deliver to deadlines under pressure
- Ability to give presentations
- Theoretical and practical knowledge in areas of child and adolescent mental health and good awareness of key drivers in the field.
- Highly competent in making a decision regarding ongoing patient care based on clinical and risk factors.
- High level of problem solving and planning skills.
- Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management.
- Awareness of own competency level and how to seek appropriate help.
- Understanding of confidentiality and risk management
- Clinical audit, research and clinical governance principles.
- Have a good understanding of child protection/safeguarding policies, recording and reporting any concerns to the appropriate agency including participate in case conferences as required.
- Wider NHS and social care policy.
- Importance of public relations.
- Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies.
- Understanding of assessment of children suspected of having ADHD/ ASD
- Experience of delivering assessment, care and treatment within mental health services
- Demonstratable experience in supporting patients presenting in mental health crisis and working autonomously
- Experience of completing clinical risk assessments and offering support and management of presenting risks.
- Experience of working within a crisis service
- Working with service users and carers in service improvement
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with current registration post first assessed year of practice
- Current professional registration
- experience and training relevant to the management and assessment of risk
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Specialist Qualification in CBT, FT or other appropriate therapy Degree or equivalent
- A qualification, or have undertaken a program of formal training in Clinical Supervision
- Supervision training
- Ability / Skills to support change and improvement, support and inspire colleagues / act as
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
CAMHS Crisis Practitioner
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to transform the way in which Children and Young People's Emergency & Urgent Care is experienced by CYP and those who care for them across Rotherham, Doncaster & South Humber. As part of the NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 - 2023/24, RDaSH has undertaken the development of a crisis response services for CYP.
We are currently recruiting a number of enthusiastic and motivated clinicians to RDash's newly formed CYP Crisis Team. These dynamic team members will form part of our skilled, multidisciplinary team, and will play a key role in the implementation and delivery of the service. Clinicians will be offered the opportunity to develop skills and experience in this area through the induction process, internal training, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and supervision.
Working pattern: 24/7 rotational shift pattern, including long days, twilight shifts and night
Main duties of the job
You will provide specialist mental health assessment, intervention and risk management for children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis. You will undertake comprehensive assessments across community, emergency department and acute hospital settings, gathering information from young people, f
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