CAMHS Practitioner - Getting Advice Team - SPA

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) is recruiting CAMHS Practitioners for the Getting Advice Team in the SPA. The role involves triaging, assessing and formulating care for children and young people, with signposting to appropriate services and engagement with partner agencies.

Closing date: 25 November 2026. It requires qualified Registered Mental Health Nurses, Learning Disability Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists, with strong collaboration and

Qualifications

• Qualified Nursing, OT or Social Work registration.
• Experience with children/young people and mental health.
• Ability to work in a triage-based, multi-agency setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual support for young people and families to improve mental health and wellbeing through screening and triage of referrals.
• Support efficient management of CAMHS referrals, including onward referrals and signposting to services.
• Collect data to demonstrate service effectiveness and support governance.
• Manage potential crises and perform risk assessments with young people and families.

Skills

Communication skills

IT literate

Organisational skills

Risk management

Multidisciplinary working

Autonomy

Clinical reasoning

Education

Nursing qualification or OT qualification or Social Work registration

Job description

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT

CAMHS Practitioner - Getting Advice Team - SPA

The closing date is 25 November 2026

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed CAMHS Practitioners to join the Getting Advice Team Pathway within the Single Point of Access function.

This is an exciting time to join our evolving service in the Getting Advice Pathway, where we are committed to improving access to mental health advice and support for children, young people, and their families. This will be a dynamic role where no two days will be the same. This will involve triaging, assessment, and formulation of young people, families, plus signposting and engagement with partner agencies, helping to identify the most appropriate support for each young person at the most appropriate time.

Applications are invited from qualified Registered Mental Health Nurses and Learning Disability Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists.

Successful applicants will be required to co-work effectively with colleagues and maintain good clinical records and data collections. Current hours of work are Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

Main duties of the job

• To provide individual support for young people, their families and carers within Getting Advice SPA to explore ways of improving mental health and well‑being via effective screening and triaging of referrals
• To support the efficient management of referrals into CAMHS – including onward referral, signposting, support to access appropriate services and guidance
• Collection of relevant data to demonstrate effectiveness of service
• Management of potential crisis situations and effective risk assessment

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrable post qualification experience, including experience of working with young people with complex mental health problems and working with children and families in particular
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Currently engaged in an advanced level of practice and able to demonstrate a degree of professional autonomy
• The ability to provide patient centred assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation with children, young people, parents and families using mental health nursing skills.
• Ability to undertake Risk Assessments and identify appropriate plans in partnerships with the young person, families and other agencies
• Experience of working within a triage-based service

Qualifications

• A professional Nursing qualification or Occupational Therapist qualification or Social Work with current registration
• Evidence of consistent pattern of learning from Education, training and experience.

Knowledge

• Theoretical and practical knowledge in areas of child and adolescent mental health and good awareness of key drivers in the field
• Highly competent in making a decision regarding ongoing patient care based on clinical and risk factors
• High level of problem solving and planning skills
• Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
• Awareness of own competency level and how to seek appropriate help
• Understanding of confidentiality and risk management.
• Clinical audit, research and clinical governance principles
• Have a good understanding of child protection/safeguarding policies, recording and reporting any concerns to the appropriate agency including participate in case conferences as required.

Skills

• Ability / Skills to support change and improvement, support and inspire colleagues / act as a role model
• Ability to motivate others
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Good Assessment skills selecting treatment from a range of options
• Able to demonstrate a genuine interest in working with young people
• Ability to work on own initiative without direct supervision, understanding where clinical input is needed.
• Able organise own workload and respond to delegation.
• Understanding of team dynamics and to be able to effectively work within a team based setting.
• IT Literate - Use of word processing software, use of electronic patient records and use of email and video conferencing.
• Ability to identify risk and manage appropriately within scope of practice. Able to manage caseload and to prioritise under time pressures for self and team
• Good clinical reasoning skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Flexible approach to problem solving
• Multi-agency team work
• Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
• Providing clinical supervision
• Time management

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.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT