CYP - MH Acute Liaison Practitioner

• Be a Pioneer: Help to continue shaping and developing this new Children's Acute Liaison service from the ground up, influencing service design and delivery.
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside a multi-disciplinary team across urgent care and children's services, fostering strong professional and collaboratively working relationships.
• Professional Development: Gain invaluable experience in a fast-paced acute setting, enhancing your clinical skills and knowledge.
• Make an Impact: Provide timely, compassionate care to vulnerable children and young people at a critical time in their lives.
• Supportive Culture: Join a team committed to staff wellbeing and continuous learning and development

Role Overview:As a Clinical Practitioner within the children's services urgent care umbrella, you will assess children and young people referred to the service, collaborating closely with internal teams and external agencies to ensure coordinated, holistic, and effective care pathways.

• Experience in crisis or acute care, supporting mental health needs and assessment. Children's experience is desirable.
• Strong assessment, risk management and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to delivering high-quality, compassionate care

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

We are looking for practitioners with Professional registration in mental health nursing, social work or allied health professionals, you will need a demonstrable level of clinical experience, and to be an excellent communicator and a good team player. You will need to be passionate and committed to delivering a service to a high standard, as well as being able to work in partnership with other teams and services including the Acute Trust hospital.

CALT (CYP- MH Acute Liaison Team) currently work 365 days a year and offer a 12 hour service per day (8am to 8pm) 7 days a week to complete triages/assessments at the Children's Emergency Department at Acute Trust hospital UHCW. The Band 6 posts will require flexibility that reflects the service needs, you will need to be able to work shifts including weekends .

For information the service is hoping to develop further and be available 24hrs per day in the future so there may also be a requirement to work nights going forward.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Essential: - Relevant Professional qualification, e.g., social worker, nurse, occupational therapist, speech & language therapist, psychotherapist, psychologist, counsello; - Current Registration with relevant professional body. Significant experience working with children and adolescents; - Evidence of continuing professional development

Essential: - Substantial experience in mental health; - Significant experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management