Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Specialist Mental Health Practitioner to join the service with responsibility for transitions across CAMHS mental health services.  The role has a joint function of working in collaboration with the pathway Clinical Leads to co-ordinate transitions from CAMHS to Adult Mental Health Services, or step down to Primary Care in line with the standards defined in the CYP Transitions policy. Services which require transitional oversight are inclusive of Community CAMHS, CAMHS Inpatients, Intensive Outreach Team, CAMHS Crisis, CYP Community Eating Disorder Service, Mental Health Support Teams and the CYP ADHD/ASD Team.  The additional responsibility of the role will be to hold a case load for of 60% of their working time, offering care co-ordination and evidence-based intervention depending on children & young people’s individual needs.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Working with the Clinical Lead to support CYPMH Transitions protocols, offering consultation, training and assisting all clinical staff to follow Transition protocols, raising the profile of young adults, SEND requirements and carers’ access to services whilst developing best practice. 

Promoting service users approaching transition will have a meeting to prepare for transition, at least six months before transitioning, or for individuals who are less than six months from transition age on joining the sending service, at least one month before transition. The meeting needs to include: the young person; the appropriate lead professional from the sending service; where applicable, a dedicated point of contact for transition from the receiving service; and where appropriate and the young person agrees, the young person’s parent(s)/carer(s). 

Service user’s transitions plans need to be agreed collaboratively by: The sending and receiving service. The Young Person. Where appropriate the Young Person’s parent or carer. The plan should include jointly agreed personal transition goals with signposting to wider community services.

Working with the Clinical Leads to support and develop robust clinical protocols, offering consultation, supervision, training and assisting all clinical staff to provide the best service for families, raising the profile of young people and carers’ access to services whilst ensuring best practice.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.