CAMHS Practitioner

Nottingham City Council; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Generous pension scheme

Leave entitlement

Job summary

Nottingham City Council is seeking a compassionate CAMHS Practitioner to join the Citywide Targeted CAMHS Team. The role involves conducting mental health assessments, formulating risk-based plans and delivering brief evidence-based interventions for children, young people and families.

You will work within a trauma-informed, relationship-based framework and collaborate with education, health, social care and voluntary sector partners to ensure timely, appropriate support and safeguarding.

Qualifications

• Degree-level or higher in a relevant field (Social Work, Nursing, Teaching) with substantial post-qualification experience in child/young person mental health
• Specialist training or qualification in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention
• Experience delivering evidence-based therapies to diverse child/young people
• Experience in assessing and managing safeguarding and clinical risk in multi-agency settings
• Knowledge of trauma, attachment, neurodiversity and management of complex presentations
• Advanced safeguarding knowledge and multi-agency decision-making skills

Responsibilities

• Carry out comprehensive mental health assessments for children and young people
• Develop collaborative formulations and deliver short-term, evidence-based therapies
• Provide individual, family and group interventions
• Contribute to CAMHS Single Point of Access and multi-agency care planning
• Collaborate with education, health, social care and voluntary partners
• Safeguard children and promote emotional wellbeing through multi-agency work

Skills

Assessment and formulation

Risk assessment

Multi-agency collaboration

Autonomous decision-making

Education

Degree in Social Work / Nursing / Teaching

Post-qualification experience

Job description

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £37,563 (Level one) rising to £40,444 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location: Multiple Nottingham City Locations, predominantly Loxley House and Bulwell Riverside.

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Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham.So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

We are looking for a compassionate, skilled and resilient CAMHS Practitioner to join our Citywide Targeted CAMHS Team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children, young people and families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. Working within a trauma-informed and relationship-based framework, you will support children and young people to understand their experiences, build resilience and achieve positive outcomes.

As part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, you will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, develop collaborative formulations and deliver short term, evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their families. While many referrals present with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, practitioners must also be confident in working with complexity, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, emotional dysregulation, safeguarding concerns and contextual risks. The successful candidate will be able to assess, manage and communicate risk effectively whilst maintaining a child-centred, compassionate and strengths-based approach.

The role involves providing individual, family and group interventions, contributing to the CAMHS Single Point of Access, and working closely with partners across education, health, social care and the voluntary sector to ensure children receive the right support at the right time. You will play an important role in safeguarding children and promoting their emotional wellbeing through effective multi-agency collaboration and care planning.

Joining our team means becoming part of a service committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based and trauma-informed mental health care and Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation principles. We offer a supportive working environment, regular clinical and management supervision, opportunities for professional development and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

Qualifications

• A relevant professional qualification in Social Work, Nursing, Teaching or a related discipline at Degree level or above, supported by substantial post-qualification experience in the assessment and treatment of children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties.
• Specialist training, accreditation or qualification in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention, with the ability to integrate therapeutic knowledge into assessment, formulation and intervention planning for children, young people and families presenting with a range of mental health needs and complexities
• Demonstrable experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families across a diverse range of mental health presentations and levels of complexity, utilising assessment and formulation to inform intervention planning and outcomes.
• Extensive experience of assessing and managing significant clinical and safeguarding risk, including self-harm, suicidality, child protection concerns and environmental adversity, whilst working effectively within complex multi-agency systems and contributing to shared decision-making regarding care and risk management.
• Advanced knowledge of child and adolescent mental health presentations, including complexity arising from trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodiversity, self-harm, suicidality and emotional dysregulation, with the ability to apply evidence-based therapeutic models to assessment, formulation and intervention.
• Expert knowledge of safeguarding, risk assessment and risk management within children's services, including the application of professional curiosity, contextual safeguarding and effective multi-agency decision-making to manage complex and high-risk situations.

Essential Skills and Competencies

• Highly developed assessment and formulation skills, with the ability to integrate information from multiple sources, analyse complexity and deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties, trauma histories and contextual challenges.
• Ability to exercise professional judgement and autonomous decision-making when managing significant clinical and safeguarding risk, including self-harm and suicidal presentations, whilst influencing and contributing effectively to multi-agency planning and risk management processes.

-A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it.We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Kirandip Gill, by email at [e-mail]

Closing Date: 28th September 2026

Interviews will be held: TBC

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