Come and work for CYP Urgent Care team as a CYP MH Liaison Clinical Lead

The vacancy is countywide and can be flexibly based at either Lincoln or Boston.

Role Summary

You will work within the county-wide MHLS to ensure you are responding to the needs of young people accessing acute general healthcare with mental health problems by offering rapid, effective liaison and assessment.

Key Responsibilities

• Through clinical leadership, support and training you will support the clinical team to manage any complex cases, supporting liaison with other agencies such as CYP services, paediatrics, emergency services, etc.
• As clinical lead you will work closely with the Team Co-ordinator to provide expert knowledge within areas of specialism in relation to young people's mental health and support the clinical team to develop their roles and the provision of care within the community setting.
• Work jointly with other CYP services to support the delivery of a high standard of clinical care for young people experiencing an acute episode of mental health deterioration. This includes ensuring improved physical health monitoring, care delivery and parity of esteem.
• Work collaboratively and in partnership with ULHT to ensure their workforce is aware of the MHLS offer and has a good understanding of mental health by offering training/education to help develop the workforce.
• Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.
• Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour by linking them with evidence-based treatment pathways.
• Plan, implement, review, improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation and care planning.
• To assess carers’ and families' needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
• Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
• To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and community teams, ensuring appropriate clinical decision-making, with other professionals and agencies.
• To support transitions of young people to adult services.