CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

Integrated Care System; Castleford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS organization is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to provide urgent, home-based mental health support for children and young people in Castleford. The role involves assessing and implementing therapeutic interventions in collaboration with families and other professionals. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in mental health, excellent assessment skills, and relevant qualifications. A passion for supporting vulnerable individuals is essential. This position is full-time and includes working shifts over weekends.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Opportunities for training and development

Qualifications

• Substantial post qualification experience with children and young people.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance.
• Experience in community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.
• Implement safety and care plans in various settings.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Therapeutic intervention

Risk assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Post graduate qualification in mental health

Job description

Go back South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 15 August 2025

Are you a passionate, skilledand compassionate Mental Health Professional looking to make a difference tochildren, young people and families in the Wakefield District?

Our Responsive Adolescent andChildrens Home-Based Treatment Team (ReACH) Team is seeking a dynamic MentalHealth Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team providing urgent,recovery-focused support to individuals and their families that are experiencingan acute mental health crisis.

This role is fast-paced and arewarding role where no two days are the same. Youd be expected to workcollaboratively with children, young people, families and external agencies tooffer intensive home-based assessment, support and treatment. Assessments canbe carried out in Accident and Emergency (A&E), family homes or communitybases in the local area.

The ReACH Team is the frontline of urgent mental health care, supporting people at their most vulnerabletime and helping them stay safe and feel supported in a community setting.

The team are currently basedat Flemming Court in Castleford, however, from December 2025 the team will moveto Fieldhead Hospital.

The service runs 7-days perweek and on a shift basis, long days of 8am-8pm.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to befully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Main duties of the job

-Assessing children and young people in avariety of setting (e.g. Accident and Emergency Department, home visits,schools)

-Working with families and carers to implementsafety plans and collaborative care plans

-Undertaking risk assessments and reviewing riskdocumentation

-Allocated as lead clinician on young people onyour caseload to implement home-based treatment

-Support staff in the team and offer clinicalsupervision

-Support with delivering training and guidanceto the team

-Referrals to internal and external agencies foryoung people and families

-Taking on the role as shift co-ordinator

-Delivering therapeutic intervention over ashort period to children and young people

-Submitting safeguarding referrals whererequired

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At the time of advertising, this role does meet theminimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates towork in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

Thepost-holder will:

Provide assessment and treatment to childrenand young people with mental health needs;

Work autonomously and collaboratively withinthe MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals;

Promote the safeguarding and welfare ofchildren and young people.

Toprovide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with awide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred tospecialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision froma senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overallframework of the teams policies and procedures.

To support theongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.

To provideassessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the mostsevere, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those whoare severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, familiesas both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team ina variety of settings to address need. This will include working with theCAPA model.

To apply a soundknowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.

To be committedto a quality approach for patient care.

Thepost-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and providesustained effort in assessment of complex family issues.

Tomanage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individualneed.

To operate within the clinical and case managementsupervision framework.

To provide training, consultation and supervision toother service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff asrequired regarding intensive interventions with children, young people andfamilies.

To participate in the development, audit andreview of this extension to existing service provision.

To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellowspecialist CAMHS practitioners.

To work collaboratively with all services to providecoherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and youngpeople as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition andrelevant consultation, training and support to universal services andtargeted groups.

To use a range of Information Technology systems(including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, keptsecurely and confidentially

To participate in an agreed clinical audit programmefor the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinicalincidents are reported.

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To comply with both clinical and corporate governanceframeworks.

Tosupport the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the developmentand monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for serviceimprovement and redesign.

To actively promote user/carer involvement in allaspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilitiesand wishes of the individuals concerned.

To work in an innovative andchild, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuousimprovement and learning.

Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances ofaggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations.

To maintain relevant professional registration

To identify and communicate any concerns through therelevant management processes.

To demonstrate continued practice development andengage in annual appraisal.

For further information, please see attached.

Person Specification

Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
• Multidisciplinary team working
• Inter-agency liaison and consultation
• Experience of supervising/mentoring junior staff
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance e.g. NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Childrens act, Education Act, Working Together, Childrens NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
• Clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
• Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice
• Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
• Experience of safeguarding children and young people.
• Experience of community settings
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts
• Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.

Personal Attributes

• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Commitment to multi-agency approach
• Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
• Calm, confident, innovative, creative
• and assertive
• Clarity of decision making
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
• Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
• Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
• To demonstrate good self care and encourage the same in team members
• A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

Special Knowledge and Skills

• Good verbal and communication skills
• Ability to manage own caseload
• Good negotiation skills, and problem solving skills
• Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
• Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Training.

• Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS
• Experience of delivering training to others

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine
• Dip SW or relevant mental health profession
• Membership of professional body
• Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
• A teaching and assessing qualification.

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.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust