CAMHS Clinician

NHS; Watford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent mental health trust in Watford is seeking a part-time CAMHS Clinician for a 12-month maternity cover. In this role, you will deliver high-quality services to children and young people facing emotional and psychological challenges. Ideal candidates should have relevant professional registration and experience in assessing and treating mental health issues. The position offers competitive pay and the opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving mental health outcomes.

Benefits

Company discounts

Wellbeing activities

Coaching network

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience in a CYPMHS team or related area is essential.
• Experience of working with children with severe mental health problems.
• Ability to undertake risk assessments and manage treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality service to children, young people, and families.
• Coordinate care and clinical supervision for team members.
• Participate in research and evaluation for service development.

Skills

Interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to work therapeutically with young people

Knowledge of child development

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Relevant professional registration

Specialist training in mental health

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

CAMHS Clinician

The closing date is 30 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 12 month maternity cover working as a part time Band 7 qualified mental health professional within our CYPMHS South multidisciplinary team, delivering a high quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families in the South of Hertfordshire including Watford and Borehamwood.

CYPMHS South is a caring, supportive and hard working team which prides itself on working creatively, innovatively and inclusively. We have a number of ongoing projects including working in partnership with young people to re design our clinic room spaces, working to better meet the needs of young people with neurodiversity who are accessing our service, and the development of the intervention offer for families of our young people.

Members of the team won the HPFT 2022 staff award for "inclusion and diversity" and the team have previously won awards for customer service and working in partnership with our adult services counterparts to improve transitions to adult services.

We welcome all new staff to the team with a robust induction process to equip them for the work they will take forwards and promote leadership at all levels within the team.

CYPMHS South is a part of HPFT CYPMHS, who have been at the forefront of national developments in CAMHS, including CAPA and CYP-IAPT. The service is rapidly expanding in line the with evolving needs of young people in Hertfordshire.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.

To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.

To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client's care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.

To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Job responsibilities

To deliver a high quality service working with, adolescents and their families/carers and to professionals from other organisations to ensure practices that respond effectively to both individual and service need. The post holder will be autonomously responsible for assessing and delivering intervention to children, young people and families in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems within the context of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT.

The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own and other professions.

The post-holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development.

The post holder will contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development.

All staff should comply with the Trusts Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

Benefits we offer

• A coaching network where trained coaches throughout the Trust are matched with staff of all disciplines to provide a powerful development opportunity
• Leading company discounts and childcare vouchers
• Salary sacrifice schemes enabling staff to drive a new car or bike - saving on tax and insurance included
• Wellbeing activities - from mindfulness to yoga, pilates and our signature craft club join our monthly programme of regular and special events to support your wellbeing. Discounts, including Nuffield Health and David Lloyd.
• Refer a friend to work for the Trust and receive up to £500! (A payment of £250 will be made when the applicant commences employment with us and a further payment of £250 will be made once they hit 6 months continuous service with us, terms and conditions apply).

Person Specification

Knowledge/Training/Experience

• Relevant professional registration as per person spec
• Evidence of CPD
• Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
• Experience at Band 6 level

Experience and Knowledge

• Post qualification experience in a CYPMHS team or related area, or several years' experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems and knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, and inter-agency collaboration and some knowledge of social care services and legislation
• Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and an understanding of a range of theoretical approaches
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
• Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
• Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc

Communication Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
• Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members contributions
• Positive problem solving approach

Physical Skills

• Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
• IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook

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.

Address

CAMHS South, Watford Peace Children's Centre and Borehamwood Civic Offices

£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum, pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

367-SS-9999

Job locations

CAMHS South, Watford Peace Children's Centre and Borehamwood Civic Offices