Job overview
CAMHS Urgent Care and Outreach Practitioner – 24/7 Crisis Team
Band: 7 Hours: Full-time (24/7 rota)
Location: Brent & Harrow Urgent Care
Are you passionate about making a difference for young people in their most vulnerable moments?
We’re looking for a skilled and compassionate Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Urgent Care and Outreach Team, providing urgent support to children, young people, and their families 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What we offer:
1. A dynamic, supportive multidisciplinary team that values collaboration and innovation
2. Structured induction, ongoing supervision, and opportunities for professional development
3. Access to specialist training in crisis care, trauma-informed practice, and family interventions
4. Flexible shift patterns across days, nights, and weekends to support work-life balance
5. Generous NHS benefits, including pension scheme and annual leave allowance
About you:
We’re looking for nurses who are:
Qualified RMN with current NMC registration
Experienced in working with children, young people, or acute mental health settings
Skilled in risk assessment, crisis de-escalation, and therapeutic engagement
Resilient, adaptable, and able to work under pressure
Compassionate, family-focused, and committed to delivering outstanding care
Join us, and you’ll be part of a team that never gives up on children, young people, and their families – helping them to find hope, stability, and a way forward.
Main duties of the job
As a CAMHS Urgent Care and Outreach Practitioner, you’ll be at the heart of our service, working with young people experiencing acute mental health crises. You’ll provide rapid assessments, short-term interventions, and support families and carers to manage risk safely. No two shifts are the same – from emergency assessments in A&E, to community-clinic offering 7 days follow up response, working in collaboration with the community CAMHS clinic, supporting the child and young person in their family homes and schools.
Working for our organisation
There’s a place for you at CNWL
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Children/Young people may present with emotional distress, self-harm, mental health crisis, or the psychological consequences of acute or chronic physical health problems. You will be expected to have the skills to deal with a very broad range of mental health needs as well as undertaking initial psychiatric assessments and reviews and also liaise with other professionals as deemed appropriate.
You will be required to make clear autonomous decisions based on an analysis of the complex presenting problems and judgements based on available treatment options. This will include those related to the admission and discharge of children/young people. You will also work closely with both internal and external stakeholders.
Your interpersonal skills will be expected to be excellent and you must be able to confidently communicate at a high level both verbally and in writing. You must be able to demonstrate deescalation skills with challenging and/or acutely distressed young people.
The CAMHS Crisis Mental health specialist practitioner will promote excellence in mental health nursing practice through the integration of expert clinical practice, education and consultancy, acting as an important resource and being committed to nursing research.
Good Leadership skills are expected as part of the post holder’s duties which include case load management, offer training to other colleagues, clinical supervision to junior staff and working together with other teams and partner agencies in the community.
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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