Mental Health Practitioner.

Integrated Care System; Castleford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Castleford is looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner to work with young people facing complex mental health challenges. This role involves managing a caseload, conducting risk assessments, and providing therapeutic interventions. Candidates must have substantial experience in mental health settings and relevant qualifications. The position offers a chance to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Substantial post-qualification experience with children and young people in mental health.
• Experience in assessment and risk management.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs.
• Work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT.
• Promote safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.

Skills

Ability to manage own caseload

Good verbal and communication skills

Good negotiation and problem-solving skills

Team working skills

Education

Relevant professional qualification (e.g., nursing)

Postgraduate qualification in mental health

Job description

Go back South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Mental Health Practitioner.

The closing date is 08 August 2025

Are youpassionate about helping young people with mental health problems? Are youlooking for an opportunity to develop and share your skills and knowledge inmental health? If you answer yes to these questions, then Wakefield Child andAdolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is the place for you!

We arelooking for an experienced and confident Mental Health Practitioner who is ableto work within a busy team. You must have significant and demonstrableexperience of working with young people and their families, who can oftenpresent with a range of complex mental health needs. You will manage your owncaseload, providing a range of high-quality care appropriate to the youngpersons needs which will include risk assessment and management, consultationand evidence based interventions.

You musthave a comprehensive range of skills and knowledge to deliver clinical aspectsof the role in order to be able to provide a range of appropriate clinicalinterventions and assessment and be competent to do this work as an autonomouspractitioner within professional practice guidelines and a structuredsupervision framework.

Please get in touch with Charlie Hindle (Team Manager) if youwould like to know more about the role.

Atthe time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UKVisas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forwardto receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health Practitioner in The Core Team withinWakefield CAMHS, the main duties would be as follows:

-Hold and manage a caseload independently.

-Provide thorough risk assessments and careplanning.

-Provide therapeutic intervention through both1:1 work and group work with young people in the locality.

-Provide urgent assessments when required.

-Work in a trauma-informed way.

-Work with other agencies; schools, social careetc.

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.

Person Specification

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.

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.

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.

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).

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