The Mindworks Alliance is a partnership between traditional CAMHS Services and third sector/voluntary agencies working to meet the emotional and mental health needs of CYP in Surrey and now NE Hants.
Our team provide a 7-day week Crisis Intervention Service, offering discovery conversations to CYP & their families/carers presenting with emotional and mental health crisis in local acute hospitals and community bases.
Our operational hours are 9am-5pm Monday-Sunday including Bank Holidays. Unsocial and weekend shifts will be expected and we use the e-roster system to ensure you are aware of your shifts. Your main base will be Aldershot Centre for Health, though you will be expected to in reach to Frimley Park Hospital and homes of CYP.
The successful candidate will hold an appropriate professional registration with NMC or HCPC or SW England. Experience and competence in working with vulnerable people in crisis is essential. Working with young people in crisis is desirable.
The main duties within this role are leading and supporting assessment, risk and care planning alongside CYP, their family/carers and the acute staff to safely facilitate discharge with follow up care planned in the community within 7 days. Where appropriate you will offer up to 6 follow up sessions with the CYP and ensure referral and signposting to appropriate services for longer term follow up is put in place and supportive discharge/transfer facilitated.
Supporting junior staff to provide high quality care, sharing learning and developing skills through supervision and training while maintaining KPI's and collecting data to support the service growth and development are all part of this exciting role. These posts offer structured career progression with recognised training packages including CPD modules in assessment and risk assessment of adolescents and DBT-A. Our Trust offers many development opportunities for future leadership career pathways too.
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.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Key Responsibilities
The post holder will work closely with the CYPS Community Teams during office hours, responding to emergency referrals of young people presenting in crisis:
- The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner, undertaking clinical assessment of children and young people who may have a complex co-morbid mental health needs and present in crisis, working alongside medical, nursing and other professional colleagues to ensure that the most effective care and treatment is provided resulting in safe, timely discharge
- To co-ordinate and liaise with Paediatric Wards and the Paediatric Liaison Nurses when children and young people with mental health issues are admitted.
- To work in close collaboration with the Mindworks Intensive Intervention Teams and the wider alliance partners, Paediatric Health Liaison Nurses, local authorities and emergency services in developing robust crisis and contingency plans/ My Safety Plans