Job summaryWe are passionate about working with young people and their families. Our strength lies in our humanity and the values we uphold. The team provides compassionate, person centred, non-judgmental care to children and young people presenting in the A&E department with mental health related difficulties, self-harm, or a psychiatric crisis.We are looking to recruit a Band 6 mental health practitioner (you could be a Nurse, Social Worker, AHP or other relevant professional registration) who will work alongside a team to provide rapid crisis assessments for young people up to the age of 18 attending University Hospital Southampton (UHS). The team provides short crisis intervention, supports with making clinical decisions on appropriateness for discharge and signposting to other specialist services as required.You will need to be confident in your risk assessment skills. You will be required to work autonomously, therefore clinical skills and experience relating to crisis and risk management are essential.Main duties of the jobIf you are passionate about working with children and young people and share our values, we would love to hear from you.This is a permanent post of which full time or part time (30 hours) can be offered.The team covers the hours of 9am to 10pm weekdays and 9am -- 5pm weekends and bank holidays. Shifts are managed by a rolling rota system.The in-reach Liaison team will work closely with our colleagues in the Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment team. Joined up working between liaison and CRHTT will occur at the weekends to meet the needs of children and young people presenting in crisis.We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, hybrid working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happenAbout usWe have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by July 2024.Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on 1st July 2024. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.Job descriptionJob responsibilities*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*Person SpecificationQualificationsEssentialNationally recognised core qualification i.e. RN, RMN, Social workProfessional Qualification at first degree level or equivalentCompletion of further post-qualification specialist training at post graduate levelExperienceEssentialExperience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families/carers where appropriate as a full member of a multi-disciplinary team located in community, primary care, outpatients or inpatient settingsExperience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their families/carers across the whole range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.Post qualifying experience of working as a specialist mental health worker within a mental health settingExperience of teaching and or training other professionalsDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameSolent NHS TrustAddressUniversity Hospital SouthamptonTremona RoadSouthamptonHampshireSO16 6YDEmployer's websitehttps://www.solent.nhs.uk/join-us/ (Opens in a new tab)