Mental Health Practitioner

Integrated Care System; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Huddersfield is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join the Crisis and Intensive Home-Based Treatment Team. The role involves supporting children and young people in the community, conducting assessments, and working collaboratively with other professionals. The ideal candidate will have a relevant professional qualification and experience in mental health. Strong therapeutic engagement skills and knowledge of care planning are essential. This is a full-time position with flexible working hours.

Benefits

Supportive induction and supervision

Flexible working

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people in mental health settings.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act and relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide outreach support to children and young people in the community.
• Conduct assessments and develop care plans for clients.
• Liaise with other professionals and stakeholders regarding client care.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Care Planning

Risk Assessment

Therapeutic Engagement

Community Outreach

Education

Professional qualification (nursing, social work, OT)

Postgraduate qualification in mental health

Job description

Go back South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 17 August 2025

Are you looking for a newopportunity in a diverse, positive and exciting service? Then this is theopportunity for you to join us and be part of the C&K CAMHS Crisis Service.

We are recruiting 2 x Band 6 mentalhealth practitioners (RMN, OT, Social workers) into our Crisis and IntensiveHome-Based Treatment Team in Calderdale and Kirklees.

There are 2 availableopportunities within the service:

1 x post- Monday- Friday 9-5based within the Assertive outreach part of the service

1 x post- 3/4 shifts over a 7-dayperiod between 9am-8pm, one weekend per month based in the crisis and homebasedtreatment part of the service

The successful applicant willhave experience of working in mental health, be able to work autonomouslywhilst knowing the limitations of the role and will have exemplaryrecord-keeping.

This dynamic position will beexactly what you are looking for if you would thrive in a community role whereyou will be part of a friendly, experienced and supportive team.

We welcome applications fromprofessional backgrounds including mental health nursing, social work andOccupational therapy. The role requires experience and knowledge around carecoordination, recovery-based therapy principles, care planning and risk assessment.

In addition to all SWYFT/NHSbenefits, we offer a supportive induction, supervision, development/trainingand flexible working within the service where the leadership team areapproachable, robust and experienced.

Main duties of the job

This role is outreach work in the community and so a driving licence will be essential.

The post holder will workshifts between the hours of 9am and 8pm, seven days a week, 365 days a year,under the supervision of a CAMHS Crisis Team Shift Co-Ordinator worker and willhave Clinical Supervision provided by an experienced clinician.

The primary role is supportingchildren, young people and their families, who are open to CAMHS and requireintensive support in the community to reach their full potential.

The role also involvesliaising with other professionals, handing over, assessing young peopleincluding care planning and risk assessment.

Using Goal Based Outcomes tomonitor young peoples journey through CAMHS with in a discharge-focused,collaborative approach, is vital to this role.

The post holder will usetherapeutic engagement skills to inspire young people to maintain their lifeskills, education and physical activity to aid recovery to ensure children andyoung people continue to be integrated in the community.

Forming and maintainingprofessional relationships is a key part of the role.

We welcome applicants who are:Resilient, work safely under pressure, can prioritise clinical tasks and whocan engage and motivate young people to participate in activities.

Knowledge of the followinglegislation is required: Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity.

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

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

For full job description, please see attached supportingdocuments.

JOB SUMMARY

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

The post holder will provide an emergency assessment and intensive treatment and outreach response to children and young people with mental health needs.

To provide a timely access to specialist services for children and young people that present in crisis or who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and /or others, and outreach to those that are difficult to engage, providing intensive support where required to meet identified need contributing to the prevention of admission to residential provision and also the facilitation of timely discharge from residential provision.

To look after and ensure the safe keeping of equipment and materials used by self in the execution of this post.

To promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system and being party to the development of the Emergency Assessment, Intensive Treatment Response and Outreach element of the Specialist CAMHS portfolio in line with the service specification implementation plans and commissioner investment.

To provide specialist assessment, intensive interventions, time limited therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need.

To provide an immediate specialist assessment response to children and young people in crisis and those who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and /or others and the development of an associated care plan

To be responsible for managing a caseload ensuring robust assessment, care planning, interventions and therapy, onward referral and through-care as appropriate.

Caseload Management.

To support and be involved in, as required the, transportation of service users to identified areas of care.

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

To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners.

To work collaboratively with Universal Services and Residential CAMHS providers to provide coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and targeted groups.

To use a range of Information Technology systems ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially.

To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical incidents are reported.

To comply with both clinical and corporate governance frameworks.

To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous improvement and learning.

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

To support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service improvement and redesign.

To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework.

To provide consultation and supervision to other service providers and partner agencies as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families.

To identify and communicate any concerns through relevant management processes.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicantsare using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job applicationforms.Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms isstrongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process beforeselecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI toenhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs applicationform.

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.

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 in patient provision.
• Experience of liaison between different levels of CAMHS.
• A grasp of relevant legislation and guidance e.g. NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Children Act, Education Act, Working Together, Childrens NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
• Clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills re mental health and behavioural problems including assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice.
• Understanding of research methodology and audit.
• Proven ability to work with other disciplines and in partnership with other organisations including service users.

Special Knowledge & Skills

• Good verbal and communication skills.
• Good negotiation skills, and problem solving skills.
• Report writing skills.
• 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 of community settings.
• Previous experience in working in a CAMH setting.

Training

• Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification e.g. nursing, psychologist, psychotherapist, family therapist, or relevant mental health profession.
• On-going professional development supervision and/ or experience of mentoring/supporting learners or ability to demonstrate the skills required for effective mentoring.
• Membership of professional bodies.
• Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).

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).

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).

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.

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