CYPMH Crisis Response Clinician

Transformationunitgm; Enfield; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK seeks a CYPMH Crisis Response Clinician in Enfield. The ideal candidate will handle crisis referrals, conduct assessments, and coordinate care plans for young patients. This full-time position demands strong clinical skills and prior experience in CAMHS. Competitive salary range is offered with excellent benefits including NHS Discounts and flexible working.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Qualifications

• Qualification at degree level or equivalent with registration.
• Experience in line management and CAMHS.
• Experience in working with children and adolescents in crisis.

Responsibilities

• Respond to crisis referrals within an hour.
• Conduct biopsychosocial risk assessments.
• Coordinate MDT meetings for complex cases.

Skills

Clinical skills in CAMHS

Risk assessment

Therapeutic modalities knowledge

Education

Degree in a relevant field

Registration with relevant professional body

Job description

Main area Mental Health Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shift pattern, inc. nights, weekends and bank holidays) Job ref 455-NLFT-0500

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Chase Farm Hospital, Chase Building Town Enfield Salary £44,485 - £52,521 Per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 15/12/2025 23:59

CYPMH Crisis Response Clinician

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

· Post Holder to respond within the hour to crisis referrals from acute hospital teams, community CAMHS teams and other stakeholders who refer into the Service.

· To conduct biopsychosocial risk assessment and clinical formulation of the crisis to be able to make a care plan to reduce crisis.

· Co‑ordinate MDT meetings with CYPS professional network as part od discharge planning meetings for complex cases.

· Identify frequent attenders and work collaboratively with community team to formulate a crisis plan to build resilience in CYP.

· Work effectively within the team to support service development.

· Support induction of new team members, students and graduate mental health workers.

· Utilise the support of clinical team to support in assessment and planning.

· Be proactive in identify on developmental needs and request support from supervisor in learning opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work on a shift pattern, to assess patients across the urgent care pathway, working autonomously and flexibly to manage the day‑to‑day assessments and/or advising on management of CYP under the age of 18 years and their families presenting to A&E Diversion Hubs based at Chase Farm, A&E and ward admissions to Barnet hospital or North Middlesex University Hospital with self‑harm and acute mental health difficulties.

The post holder will be required to undertake a range of therapeutic tasks individually and jointly with members of the multi‑disciplinary team. To develop & maintain specialist clinical skills and expertise in the assessment of CYP psychiatric emergencies and deliberate self‑harm. To receive and assess referrals from A&E, paediatric/general wards, Community Teams, schools, and health colleagues across the NCL as well as self‑referrals from CYP and their families. To offer advice on management of patients with mental health issues and non‑organically based physical symptoms. Identifying regular attendees at Acute Hospitals with mental health problems and in liaison with Community CAMHS teams to make available current care plan as and when appropriate.

There is a need to use effective and efficient IT skills in the recording of clinical information and in communicating with colleagues from CAMHS and allied services.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high‑quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The clinician will complete a full biopsychosocial assessment and crisis plan working closely with the MDT to clinically formulate the young persons needs to understand triggers and perpetuating factors that can cause the crisis presentation.

The clinician will work in partnership with the young person and their carers along with all involved in the young persons professionals network to coordinate care to formulate safe discharge plans.

The clinician will utilise a range of therapeutic skills to engage a young person in accordance with their needs and keep the young person at the centre of any decision making when signposting young person to additional service to support in treatment and recovery and build resilience and reduce risk behaviours

Person specification

Qualifications/Registration

• Qualification at degree level or equivalent and registration with relevant professional body with a core profession (clinical/counselling psychology, psychotherapy, systemic family psychotherapy social work, nursing, occupational therapy – NMC/Relevant training on safeguarding and child protection.
• • Training in one of the main therapeutic modalities. • Current experience of line management of Band 5 • CAMHS experience and evidence of leading a change initiative which improved patient care. • Working within Mental Health Service as a Band 5 • Experience of working with CAMHS crisis acute services in the community

Skills and Abilities

• • Evidence of well‑developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS. • Working knowledge in at least one model of therapeutic work (e.g. Systemic, CBT, SFT, Psychodynamic). Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional, and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed adolescents and their families/care networks. Capacity to deal with working conditions that may occasionally involve verbal abuse and frequent exposure to highly emotive material such as child abuse and family breakdown.• Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS • Knowledge of legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to children and adolescents including safeguarding children and young people, child protection procedures and policies.
• experience of working within community CAMHS, previous working in acute and inpatient settings, experience of line management , training within a therapeutic modality

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience and K• Experience of clinical and risk assessment and treatment of children and young people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in‑patient settings • Previous experience of working in CAMHS, with proven track record of working with children, young people and their families offering assessment and stabilisation during periods of high risk. • Experience of case load management. • Experience of working in a multi‑disciplinary team.nowledge
• • Experience of teaching colleagues of other disciplines. • Experience of working in a culturally diverse area. • Experience of working in an adolescent in‑patient setting.

Personal Qualities

• • Commitment to equal opportunities. • Self‑motivated, assertive, and flexible

Other requirements

• • Essential car driver • Willingness to drive for work purposes

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non‑medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.