Job overview

Surrey and Borders is looking for someone who is passionate about developing and providing high quality, evidence based Crisis Intervention care and treatment to young people with moderate to severe emotional and mental health problems.

Working Location: Unither House, Curfew Bell Rd, Chertsey KT16 9FG

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday - 9AM to 5PM

Job Overview: With resources available within a defined area deliver on the following key area, coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on;

·         Management of referrals including delivery of care

·         Supervision of clinical staff across the Surrey-wide service.

·         Provision of  a 7 day/week crisis intervention service, which offers assessments to children, young people and their families presenting in crisis in both local Paediatric wards and CAMHS Community Team Bases

Main duties of the job

• Provide urgent specialist mental health assessments for children and young people (CYP) presenting in crisis.

• Work autonomously to assess, manage, and coordinate care for CYP with complex co-morbid mental health needs.

• Respond to emergency referrals in collaboration with CAMHS Community Teams.

• Manage a caseload from referral to discharge or transfer, including medium to high-risk cases.

• Develop and implement crisis and contingency plans, including safety planning.

• Coordinate care with paediatric wards, liaison nurses, and multi-agency partners to ensure safe and timely discharge.

• Contribute to evidence-based practice, audit, outcome monitoring, and service development.

• Lead on relevant clinical guidelines and protocols within area of responsibility.

• Participate in delivery of specialist programmes for CYP presenting with deliberate self-harm (DSH).

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.