CAMHS Mental Health Liaison Practitioner
Closing date: 28 June 2026.
The CYP Mental Health Liaison team was launched in March 2023 as part of the CYP Urgent Care teams. It works closely with the CAMHS Crisis and Enhanced Treatment Service (CCETT) and the CYP Eating Disorder Service to support children and young people (CYP) accessing medical areas at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston. The team provides timely face‑to‑face assessments, supports CYP admitted to hospital with a mental health need, and builds links with ULHT teams to enhance joint working and staff training.
Shifts run from 08:00 am to 08:00 pm and 07:30 pm to 07:30 am, providing a 24 hour service with phone support out of hours. The post is a fixed-term contract for 12 months.
Responsibilities
- Provide rapid response to CYP presenting with urgent and emergency mental health or eating disorder presentations.
- Respond to referrals within one hour; triage and assess within four hours using phones, Microsoft Teams, or face‑to‑face methods.
- Ensure safe and effective assessment, treatment, and comprehensive discharge planning using advanced clinical reasoning and assessment tools.
- Maintain collaborative relationships with CAMHS CCETT, adult mental health liaison, and ULHT hospital teams.
- Offer training, support, and clinical supervision to paediatric colleagues.
- Complete urgent emergency mental health and risk assessments for CYP at LCH and PHB in partnership with CCETT.
- Engage with young people to provide risk assessment, risk management plans, and therapeutic risk decisions post‑crisis.
- Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning within the multidisciplinary team.
Qualifications
- Postgraduate professional with current registration (RMN, RLN, SW, OT).
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
- Leadership training.
- Training in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) or family systems practice.
Experience
- Relevant experience working with people with mental health needs.
- Experience working with individuals in crisis.
- Experience with severe and enduring mental illnesses.
- Experience managing and developing staff including supervision.
- Experience working with children and young people.
Skills
- Expert knowledge of child care legislation, safeguarding, the Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach, and risk assessment.
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, children’s services, and mental health.
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development, risk assessment, and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Experience using evidence‑based practice.
- Ability to work both as part of a team and autonomously, managing own and colleagues’ anxieties.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and information governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Ability to delegate while maintaining overall responsibility for service users’ care.
- Highly motivated, able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.
- Excellent time‑management and organisational skills, able to work under pressure and manage workload efficiently.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous convictions.
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 per annum (pro‑rata for part‑time).
