Job summary
This is a really exciting time, we have been granted some additional monies to increase our staffing and develop our crisis model. Initially the posts out for a fixed term period with the potential to extend.

If you're a clinician who thrives on meaningful work, rapid decision-making, and the chance to potentially change the trajectory of a young person's life, this is the role that will ignite your passion. Birmingham's CAMHS Crisis & Home Treatment Team is looking for exceptional professionals who want to be part of a service that is transforming how urgent mental health care is delivered to children, young people, and their families.

This is not a traditional CAMHS post. This is frontline, relationship-driven, high-impact work where your clinical expertise becomes a lifeline for young people in their most vulnerable moments. You'll be joining a dynamic, multidisciplinary team that blends clinical excellence with creativity, compassion, and a commitment to delivering care where it matters most in the home and community.

You'll be at the heart of crisis care providing rapid assessments, safety planning, and intensive home-based interventions that prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and keep young people safely supported in their own environments.

Main duties of the job
This role provides rapid, specialist mental health support to children and young people experiencing acute mental health crisis. As a senior clinician within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team, you will deliver urgent assessments, formulate risk and safety plans, and provide intensive home-based treatment designed to stabilise young people in their own environment and prevent unnecessary hospital admission. You will work closely with families, schools, social care, paediatrics, and inpatient services to ensure safe, coordinated care and timely discharge back into the community. You will act as a key point of contact during periods of crisis, offering skilled de-escalation, brief therapeutic interventions, and confident clinical decision-making. As part of a robust multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to case formulation, crisis planning, medication monitoring, and high-quality documentation. This role requires resilience, autonomy, and a commitment to delivering compassionate, trauma-informed care to young people and their families during their most vulnerable moments

About us
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification. Note that there may be times where cross cover is required across the CAMHS Urgent Care Pathway

Qualifications
Essential

• NMC, Social Work England or HCPC registered professional

Desirable

• Relevant Post qualifying qualification e.g. or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of training
• Specific qualification in a relevant therapeutic speciality e.g. counselling, Family Therapy, CBT, substance misuse

Knowledge and skills
Essential

• Knowledge of common CAMHS crisis presentations, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, behavioural dysregulation, and eating disorders.
• Understanding of equality, diversity, cultural competence, and trauma-informed practice.
• Understanding of equality, diversity, cultural competence, and trauma-informed practice.
• Skilled in de-escalation, crisis management, and delivering brief, evidence-based interventions in high-pressure situations.
• Ability to complete rapid, holistic mental health and risk assessments for children and young people in acute crisis.

Desirable

• Strong understanding of child and adolescent development, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and family dynamics.

Experience
Essential

• Delivering and /or facilitating evidence based interventions to a wide range of service users and carers;
• Experience delivering community-based or home-treatment interventions.
• Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience supporting safe discharge planning and coordinating care across services
• Experience working within CAMHS or a mental health crisis service, ideally with children and young people.
• Therapeutic interventions

Desirable

• Strong understanding of child and adolescent development, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and family dynamics.

Values
Essential

• Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
• Deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible Be the best you can be, always look for ways to improve and develop to reach your potential
• Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
• Joint working with others, e.g. patients, colleagues in the delivery of high quality healthcare
• Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive

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.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).