CAMHS Practitioner | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health and social care organization is seeking CAMHS Practitioners for a 12-month fixed-term contract in Huntingdon. The ideal candidates will have relevant mental health qualifications or experience and the ability to work with young people facing emotional and behavioral challenges. Responsibilities include mental health assessments, interventions, and care coordination in a supportive multidisciplinary team. The position emphasizes service user participation and high-quality care, with professional development opportunities available.

Benefits

CPD opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experienced practitioners or newly qualified practitioners are encouraged to apply.
• Ability to work under pressure and hold personal accountability.
• Strong teamwork ethic is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health assessments and formulations.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions to children and families.
• Work as an integral member of the CAMHS Community Team.

Skills

Teamwork

Autonomy

Strong communication

Education

Relevant qualifications in Mental Health or Social Work

Job description

12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

We are currently looking to recruit enthusiastic and creative CAMHS Practitioners to join our Core CAMHS Team. This post is available as a B6 to experienced practitioners or a B5 to someone newly qualified or completing their training.

We are a multi-disciplinary team offering a diverse range of professional approaches, including Family Therapy, Nursing, Occupational therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Social work, and Mental health Practitioners. We work with young people who are experiencing moderate to severe emotional, behavioural, or mental health difficulties. As a team we believe that service user participation and feedback is an integral part of the development and delivery of services and supports care which is person centred and inclusive.

You will have a strong team work ethic, the ability to work autonomously, hold personal accountability and work well under pressure. You will have access to regular individual and group clinical supervision, CPD opportunities within and outside of the service, and the support of a robust and supportive multidisciplinary team. You will also be required to support the team to ensure the smooth running and organisation of the service, contributing towards research, evaluation, and service development, to ensure care is responsive, effective, and equitable.

As a CAMHS practitioner, you will be mainly working within a clinical setting in our out-patient clinic although in order meet the needs of our children and young people you may also be required to provide support within other environments such as home, education or community settings.

Your role will be to deliver excellent quality care which empowers children and young people, supports them in their recovery journey and enables them to contribute towards the development of services and care planning. You will work as an integral member for the CAMHS locality team, providing assessments, interventions and care coordination to children, young people, families, and carers. You will have a positive approach to the delivery of care which values working creatively and flexibly in partnership with service users, their networks and the wider professional networks.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team who is striving to make a difference for the children, young people, and families we support, then we would love to hear from you, and for you to be part of our friendly and supportive team. In return we will provide the necessary support and guidance to ensure your development within your role.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

As an equal opportunities employer we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Dec 2025

Responsibilities

• To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Community Team, providing mental health assessments and formulations, through information gathering and analysis, including the use of routine outcome measures and within bio-psychosocial models of mental health.
• To utilise specialist knowledge and evidence-based models of mental health to make decisions about a child or young person’s mental health needs.
• To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.
• To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based interventions for individuals and groups to children, young people, families and carers.
• To evaluate and care plan in collaboration with the CAMHS Community Team, and wider CAMHS services, and considering individual, contextual and social factors.
• To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice and care planning.
• To utilise individual, group and peer supervision to support assessments, care planning and decision making.
• To participate in the team’s use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS.
• To involve children and young people and family/carers, and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to their assessments and care planning.
• To involve children, young people and families/carers in the development of service provision through co-production, participation and service user evaluation
• *DVLA have a reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Benefits

We provide CPD opportunities within and outside of the service, and the support of a robust and supportive multidisciplinary team. We offer a supportive environment for professional development.