CYP Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Overview

The CYP Mental Health Liaison team are a new service that went live March 2023. We are an additional service within the CYP Urgent Care teams and work closely with the CAMHS Crisis and enhanced treatment service (CCETT) and the CYP Eating Disorder Service.

• Support children and young people (CYP) accessing our medical areas at the hospital, including A&E, paediatrics, and the hospital wards at Lincoln County Hospital (LCH) and Pilgrim Hospital Boston (PHB), prioritising timely face‑to‑face assessments and supporting YP admitted to a ward with a mental health need.
• Work shifts 08:00‑20:00 and 19:30‑07:30, providing 24‑hour service with phone support out of hours for the caseload and for those accessing medical care or emergency care through ULHT or the MHUAC (Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre) and S136 suite.
• Act as liaison between CAMHS CCETT, Adult Mental Health Liaison Service, LCH and PBH, including acute paediatrics.
• Serve as link worker for the paediatric wards, based within CAMHS CCETT teams and MH liaison (at night).
• Ensure 24‑hour cover for CYP accessing acute general hospitals, including those admitted for support with eating and weight issues.
• Provide training or supervision to ULHT staff when working with CYP presenting with mental health needs.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do. We could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well‑led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Cheryl Goodwin

Job title:

Team Manager CYP MH Liaison
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