Camhs mental health liaison practitioner

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Horizon Centre Town Lincoln Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata for part-time Salary period Yearly Closing 28/06/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

The CYP Mental Health Liaison team are a service that went live March 2023. We are an additional service within the CYP Urgent Care teams and work closely with the CAMHS Crisis and enhanced treatment service (CCETT) and the CYP Eating Disorder Service!

The role of the team is to support children and young people (CYP) accessing our medical areas at the hospital, including A&E, paediatrics, and the hospital wards at Lincoln County Hospital (LCH) and Pilgrim Hospital Boston (PHB) with a priority of timely face to face assessments as well as support CYP admitted to a ward with a mental health need. We are also building links with ULHT teams with a view to improved joint working and mental health training to their staff.

Shifts will be 08.00am-20:00pm and 19:30pm-7.30am. MH liaison workers will work closely with CAMHS CCETT staff to ensure a 24-hour service is offered for CYP experiencing a mental health crisis, including phone support out of hours to those on the case load, support to those accessing medical care or emergency care through ULHT or the MHUAC (Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre) and S136 suite.

Please note this is a fixed term post for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

Operational hours are shifts over 24 hours, 7 days per week.

Provide rapid response to CYP presenting with urgent and emergency mental health presentations, including mental health and eating disorder/disordered eating presentations.

Respond to referrals within one hour, triage/assess within 4 hours. Utilise methods available such as phones, Microsoft Teams or face to face depending on the location, presentation of CYP and team resources.

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To maintain positive working relationships between CAMHS CCETT, Adult MH liaison and ULHT hospital teams.

Offer training, support and clinical supervision to paediatric colleagues.

Work with CCETT to complete urgent emergency mental health and risk assessments for CYP presenting at LCH and PHB. Offer a robust triage and assessment service.

Build effective relationships within the adult MH liaison team to share skills, good practice and enhance team working.

Engage with young people to provide mental health and risk assessment, risk management plans, and taking appropriate therapeutic risk for young people following crisis. Provide full assessment and collaborative care planning for implementation by the multi-disciplinary team, in partnership with young people and other workers involved in care delivery.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Cheryl Goodwin, via email at cheryl.goodwin3@nhs.net or by telephone 01522 535189.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Post graduate 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 systemic practices

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs
• Experience of working with individuals in crisisExperience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
• Experience of managing and developing staff including supervision
• Experience of working with children and young people.

Skills

• Expert knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, 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 of using evidence-based practice
• Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues’ anxieties
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
• Highly developed communication skills
• Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
• Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently

As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.

We reserve the right to withdraw or close a vacancy at any time. We will give priority to employees who are at risk.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.