East London NHS Foundation Trust • London E13 8AL
About this role
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Specialist CAMHS Practitioner to join the CAMHS HTT ( previously) CAMHS Intensive Community Crisis Service (ICCS) developing across East London. We are
seeking practitioners to join our service who are passionate about providing high-quality mental care with children, young people and their families at times of crisis for a Fixed Term of 12 Months Maternity Cover
The East London CAMHS HTT / ICCS is a Multi-disciplinary team providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment to CYP with serious mental illness where inpatient admission would otherwise be required or as part of supported discharge . This is a 12-Month FTC Maternity Cover
To effectively triage and accept referrals to the service, liaising
with other professionals and providing initial advice as
appropriate.
To provide comprehensive mental health and risk
assessments of children, young people and their
families/carers referred in crisis.
To manage risk by putting in place care plans, safety & coping
plans and other risk interventions in a variety of settings, e.g.
at home, in the community or in hospital settings
To provide brief evidence-based crisis interventions to
children, young people and families referred to the service,
that aim to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe
early discharge from inpatient mental health wards or acute
services – including individual and group work
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.
Our values are
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
To effectively triage and accept referrals to the service, liaising
with other professionals and providing initial advice as
appropriate.
To provide comprehensive mental health and risk
assessments of children, young people and their
families/carers referred in crisis.
To manage risk by putting in place care plans, safety & coping
plans and other risk interventions in a variety of settings, e.g.
at home, in the community or in hospital settings
To provide brief evidence-based crisis interventions to
children, young people and families referred to the service,
that aim to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe
early discharge from inpatient mental health wards or acute
services – including individual and group work
To engage in assertive outreach work with children/young
people and their families where appropriate and inreach work
where children/ young people are admitted.
Based on assessments and reports convey sensitive,
complex and sometimes unwelcome information to
patients and other professionals about risks, both verbally
and in written form, and manage this as constructively as
possible.
To liaise with and where appropriate participate in joint work
with other members of ICCS or other CAMHS clinicians.
To liaise with the child, young person and families’
professional network, keeping them informed of
developments, changes in risk status and promoting multi
agency collaboration.
To offer and provide a liaison and consultation service to
multi agency partners working with children, young people
and their families/carers including advice to professionals in
creating management plans for children and young people
presenting with in crisis and/or complex and severe mental
health problems.
To act as care coordinator for an identified caseload and to
be responsible for the coordination of assessment, planning,
implementation and evaluation of therapeutic packages of
care provided by ICCS. To manage a clinical caseload
independently within appropriate clinical/professional
guidelines and to seek consultation where necessary with
the relevant line manager and lead clinicians of specialist
teams.
To act as a care coordinator in accordance with CPA
guidelines within the CAMHS community setting.
To provide packages of care, group-work and psycho
education for the young people and their families/ carers that
takes account of the complexities of family systems and their
significant social networks.
To ensure that the needs of the client group is paramount,
and to and adhere to local community and hospital
guidelines relating to Safeguarding and Child Protection.
To ensure acceptable levels of safety (regarding potential
verbal and physical aggression from disturbed clients) for
self and to advise other colleagues when necessary. To
adhere to the “lone worker policy “and update training in
breakaway techniques when necessary.
To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members
in order to enhance and develop work with families by
providing highly specialist knowledge and skills.
To be responsible for developing and maintaining
knowledge of local resources and developing working
relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and
community groups and organisations.
This advert closes on Sunday 3 May 2026