Team Lead - COAST

Do you want to be part of an innovative Tier 4 service that is central to the transformation of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across Sussex?

We have a vacancy for a Senior CAMHS Crisis & Intensive Home Treatment Practitioner within the COAST service. COAST provides both Crisis support and Intensive Home Treatment, offering a comprehensive community-based alternative to hospital admission and supporting safe, timely discharge.

This role is primarily focused on supporting the operational aspects of the service, including rota coordination, supervision, performance monitoring and contributing to service development, while also supporting the team's clinical needs.

Depending on service demand, the role will also involve direct clinical work with young people and families in the community. For this reason, access to a car is essential, as travel across Sussex will be required.

We are looking for a highly skilled, forward-thinking, creative and dynamic senior practitioner with a passion for young person and family-centred care. You will be enthusiastic, resilient, and able to respond to young people's needs with flexibility and creativity.

Weekend working and Duty cover are also part of this role.

Fixed Term / Secondment through to August 27 for Maternity Leave cover., To be responsible for aspects of operational management.

To provide clinical support and supervision for the team.

To manage a crisis caseload of young people and their families and carers.

To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for adolescents and their families and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.

To develop and maintain therapeutic relationships with young people and their families/carers.

To be able to assess and manage high-risk adolescent clients in a variety of settings, conduct risk assessments and formulate robust individualised and dynamic safety plans.

To independently undertake crisis mental health assessments in a variety of settings including Accident and Emergency departments out of hours and liaise with relevant individuals and agencies to promote a positive, safe and meaningful experience for the young person and their families

To be able to demonstrate the ability to make appropriate decisions under pressure taking into consideration the risks to clients, self and others and to be able to assess the often complex situations of these clients and their families.

We can offer you support and supervision, a very exciting and challenging role, opportunity for personal development and to shape the post, access to our Trust's Leadership programme and a rewarding role.

This is an opportunity to join an organisation which sets a high priority on the development of services in collaboration with experts through experience and carer's and to work with dedicated and supportive colleagues. The Trust is committed to strong integrated, collaborative leadership between managers and clinicians. We have services across a wide geographical area and an ability to travel is required. The patch is easily accessible from Brighton, Gatwick, Surrey, and Hampshire.

Sussex is a beautiful county with good transport links, vibrant communities, and tourist attractions, including the Coast and the South Downs.