CAMHS Urgent Care Team Lead

Job summary
Do you want to be part of a forward thinking, well respected, fast moving, multi-disciplinary young person's Urgent Care Team? Can you deliver compassionate care to those young people that present in mental health crisis?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our CAMHS Urgent Care Team in North Derbyshire. The Team is a well-established part of the wider CAMHS Service and is a supportive, well organised team with a culture of friendly, multi-disciplinary work based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

You will have experience of direct work with children and young people who have mental health problems and you will be adept at undertaking mental health assessments and interventions. You will have the necessary knowledge in assessing risk and drawing up robust safety plans.

You will have a core professional qualification eg Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or HCPC registered AHP.

Main duties of the job
The Urgent Care Team provides a rapid response service to children and young people and families who are presenting with acute mental health or emotional disturbance to a degree where the risk they pose indicates that an inpatient admission may be required.

You will offer mental health and risk assessment, formulation and brief intervention with those young people under 18 who are presenting with urgent mental health needs. The team operate between the hours of 08am-11pm over seven days with plans to develop 24 hour on-call cover (NHS Agenda for change pay enhancements apply.)

About us
Working for your organisation

The team have well established links with Paediatrics, our ED Department, and Children's Social Care, Education and other partner agencies across North Derbyshire.

Whilst you care for our young people and families, in turn we recognise the importance of caring for you - clinical supervision, career & personal development and health & wellbeing support are all core to our service. If you're keen to develop particular interests within child & adolescent mental health, come and talk to us about how we could support that.

Details
Date posted: 26 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 166-FC-8236376
Closing date: 15 November 2026

Job locations
CAMHS Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Chesterfield Road, Calow, S44 5BL, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential

• Professional qualification in a field relevant to child & adolescent mental health eg Occupational Therapist, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker.
• Registration with an appropriate regulatory body

Desirable

• Post basic training in child & adolescent mental health
• Graduate level qualification
• Evidence of accredited qualification in the training/supervision of trainees/students

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience of working with children & families including work with child mental health needs.
• Experience of leadership/coordination within a team or willingness to develop skills.
• Experience of contributing to service development, particularly interagency developments.
• Experience of mental health assessments, including risk and the implementation of a wide range of therapeutic interventions in conjunction with other agencies
• Working knowledge of health, social services, education and the voluntary sector
• Ability to manage a caseload autonomously.

Desirable

• Experience of working in CAMHS at a senior level.
• Experience of working in a multi agency community setting offering consultation & liaison.
• Experience of working in a culturally diverse community
• Experience in working with a broad range of clinical and behavioural presentations
• Experience of service evaluation & audit.
• Experience of involving users & carers in service developments

Skills and knowledge
Essential

• Qualities essential to clinical practice e.g. respect, genuineness and personal integrity
• Communication skills to enable a helping relationship
• Working knowledge of legislation relevant to CAMHS and mental health
• Knowledge of models of consultation and supervision

Desirable

• Leading research projects undertaken within the service.
• Clinical leadership skills.
• Experience in supervision, both as provider & recipient.

Personal Attributes
Essential

• A car driver with a full current driving licence and own transport

Demonstrates our Proud to Care Values
Essential

• Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer's website: https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
CAMHS Clinical Manager, Sharon Brammer, sharon.brammer@nhs.net, 01246514412

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