CAMHS Crisis Liaison/Single Point of Access Practitioner Job in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Camhs Crisis Liaison/single Point Of Access Practitioner

Tyn-y-Nant ED, WLS, GB, United Kingdom

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

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Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced Mental Health Nurses to work within the CAMHS Crisis Liaison/Single Point of Access Team based in Tonteg Hospital.

The CAMHS Service has a number of bases across the locality which includes Tonteg Hospital, Carnegie Clinic in Rhondda, KHHP in Merthyr and Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend.

The post holders will manage their own caseload and provide timely assessment, risk management and follow up intervention for children and young people presenting in crisis related to mental health eg. acute psychosis, eating disorder or intent to inflict harm upon themselves and/or others.

To provide triage, assessments of all referrals in to the service, establish the most appropriate sign posting and allocation of the referral to meet the needs of the young person.

Welsh Skills Desirable:

This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency ', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

We listen, learn and improve

We treat everyone with respect

We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac.

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