CYP Crisis Service Mental Health Practitioner

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

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

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