• Job Description

  Req#: C9310-25-0515?language=en&page=718&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Join our pioneering award-winning First Response Service as a CAMHS Crisis Care Mental Health Practitioner. Our team are based in Huntingdon, providing 24-hour access to mental health services for people who identify or have been identified as being in a mental health crisis.

  We need your expertise in working with children, young people and their families to support us in providing the best possible care for our service users. When we receive referrals for children and young people you will lead on these assessments and support the wider team to work with these young people and their families.

  This is an exciting role which will support you to develop your clinical skills and develop a comprehensive view of the system. Understanding the system and building good relationships with partner agencies such as the police, ambulance and local authority services is a key aspect of this role but also provides you with a fantastic foundation for future development. You will be expected to work closely with other community agencies to develop a short-term contingency plan for people presenting in a mental health crisis.

  Main duties of the job

  If you are successful, you will be providing holistic and brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation and short-term contingency planning over the phone whilst working closely with other CAMHS services and navigating the CAMHS crisis pathways currently in place.

  You will support the wider team in working with those of all ages, this will involve telephone triage and working within the community providing face-to-face assessments and working closely with other teams and agencies.

  We will expect you to use a range of brief solution-focused interventions, to empower service users, carers and their families in decision making and divert to a range of health and social care resources for support.

  As a service we value our staff development, we meet weekly for development sessions organised by our practice educator. We also look to provide annual training and development opportunities for the whole team, last year our front-line staff undertook DBT training. You would also have the opportunity to take part in development opportunities offered by the Trust, such as AMHP training and non-medical prescribing.

  We work in shifts to provide 24-hour support and as a CAMHS practitioner within the team you can expect to work late shifts (11am to 11pm).

  About us

  Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

  Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

  To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

  Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

  Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

  For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

  Details

  Date posted

  27 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  310-MASMH-7191688

  Job locations

  Kingfisher House

  KINGFISHER WAY

  HUNTINGDON

  PE29 6FH

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

  • Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
  • Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients within First Response.
  • Provide assessment, planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
  • Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
  • Acts as a professional and clinical role model to all staff, clients/service users, carers, other agencies and the public at all times.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

  • Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
  • Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients within First Response.
  • Provide assessment, planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
  • Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
  • Acts as a professional and clinical role model to all staff, clients/service users, carers, other agencies and the public at all times.

  Person Specification

  Education/Qualifications

  Essential

  • Mental Health Nurse/Social work qualification or Registered Nurse with CAMHS experience
  • Current NMC/HCPC Registration appropriate to the job role
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

  Desirable

  • Clinical supervision qualification
  • Specific training in either family work or psychological approaches to helping young people
  • Teaching (clinical practice)

  Knowledge & Skills

  Essential

  • Assessing, formulating and working with children and young people (& their families) presenting in heightened state of distress
  • Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
  • Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning/ management plans
  • The ability to demonstrate excellent clinical skills relevant to the clinical area
  • Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
  • An understanding of the principles of working with children, young people and their families

  Desirable

  • Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • There to assist patients, carers, families, referrers and colleagues
  • Works flexibly
  • Motivated, reliable and committed to team working
  • Embrace opportunity to work with local community, 3rd sector and other partners
  • Values opinions of others. Innovative and pioneering approach to new ways of working

  Other

  Essential

  • Able to meet the service needs for mobility across the geographical area covered.
  • Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
  • Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
  • Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude

  Person Specification

  Education/Qualifications

  Essential

  • Mental Health Nurse/Social work qualification or Registered Nurse with CAMHS experience
  • Current NMC/HCPC Registration appropriate to the job role
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

  Desirable

  • Clinical supervision qualification
  • Specific training in either family work or psychological approaches to helping young people
  • Teaching (clinical practice)

  Knowledge & Skills

  Essential

  • Assessing, formulating and working with children and young people (& their families) presenting in heightened state of distress
  • Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
  • Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning/ management plans
  • The ability to demonstrate excellent clinical skills relevant to the clinical area
  • Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
  • An understanding of the principles of working with children, young people and their families

  Desirable

  • Brief psychological interventions/strategies for managing crisis

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • There to assist patients, carers, families, referrers and colleagues
  • Works flexibly
  • Motivated, reliable and committed to team working
  • Embrace opportunity to work with local community, 3rd sector and other partners
  • Values opinions of others. Innovative and pioneering approach to new ways of working

  Other

  Essential

  • Able to meet the service needs for mobility across the geographical area covered.
  • Recognise people's right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
  • Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
  • Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Kingfisher House

  KINGFISHER WAY

  HUNTINGDON

  PE29 6FH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Kingfisher House

  KINGFISHER WAY

  HUNTINGDON

  PE29 6FH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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