Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
CAMHS Practitioner
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North Tyneside Specialist CAMHS Seeking a Complex Care Practitioner
North Tyneside Specialist CAMHS is seeking a compassionate, skilled, and motivated Complex Care Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with children, young people, and their families who present with highly complex mental health needs requiring coordinated, intensive, and person-centred care.
The postholder will act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, ensuring effective coordination of services and multidisciplinary input. The post holder will also act as the lead practitioner for a defined caseload, undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments, developing collaborative care plans, coordinating interventions across agencies, and ensuring continuity of care for young people with significant emotional, behavioural, and psychological difficulties.
Working closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, nurses, social care, education, and voluntary sector partners, you will play a key role in reducing risk, improving outcomes, preventing unnecessary admissions, and supporting recovery through evidence-based and trauma-informed practice.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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Main Duties
- Hold and manage a caseload of children and young people with complex and enduring mental health presentations.
- Undertake comprehensive biopsychosocial and risk assessments.
- Develop, implement, and regularly review personalised care plans in partnership with young people and their families.
- Act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, ensuring effective coordination of services and multidisciplinary input.
- Provide therapeutic interventions within the scope of professional competence.
- Coordinate multi-agency meetings and contribute to safeguarding, Child Protection, and Child in Need processes.
- Monitor and manage clinical risk, responding appropriately to crises and escalating concerns when necessary.
- Liaise effectively with education, social care, paediatric services, community organisations, and inpatient services to ensure seamless care.
- Support transitions between services, including transfer to Adult Mental Health Services where appropriate.
- Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to service evaluation, quality improvement, and clinical governance.
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We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Theresa Maddison
Job title: Nurse Consultant CAMHS
Email address: Theresa.maddison@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0191 2196685
Rhu Liddle
Job title: Lead Nurse CAMHS
Email address: Rhu.liddle@nhct.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0191 2196685
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