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CYP Crisis Service Mental Health Practitioner
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Employer: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Trust-wide, United Kingdom (Base: Stockport or Oldham)
Reference: 311-HYM785-26-A
Contact: Julie Bancroft, Team Leader | julie.bancroft1@nhs.net | 0161 716 2314
Closing Date: July 9, 2026
Grade: NHS AfC Band 6
Contract: Secondment, 12 months (from start date), Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Service Hours: 7 days a week, 8am–8pm
Salary: £39,959 – £48,117 per annum, pro rata
We are seeking to recruit staff with a professional registration (Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy) to work within a dynamic CAMHS Crisis Team. Looking for individuals passionate about working with children and young people and working innovatively across pathways and traditional boundaries.
Main Duties
- Offer assessment, support, signposting and brief therapeutic intervention to young people requiring crisis support
- Work within CYP crisis teams including Home Treatment, Rapid Response and Enhanced Rapid Response – paediatric liaison
- Ensure young people get the right care, from the right clinician/team, at the right time and in the right place
- Support young people to be cared for in the community to experience the least disruption
- Support hospital discharge in the safest and quickest way possible with right community resources
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3 Pathways Within The Team
- Assessment on paediatric ward
- 72-hour Rapid Response pathway
- 4–6 week Home Treatment pathway
Essential Criteria
- Relevant core professional qualification in mental health (nursing, social work or occupational therapy) with professional body registration
- Educated to first degree level
- Significant experience in community or inpatient settings
- Experience of assessment, formulation and managing complex cases and risk
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for patients care and treatment
- Experience working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Detailed knowledge of child safeguarding procedures
- Sound assessment skills and ability to articulate outcomes
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Training Opportunities
- AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment)
- Social Work and Nurse Apprenticeship
- DBT skills workshops
- STORM Skills Training (Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Mitigation)
- Risk formulation Training
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