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A reputable NHS Foundation Trust in Leeds is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to provide assessment and treatment to vulnerable young people at a secure children's home. The role involves working within a multi-disciplinary team, promoting safeguarding and delivering person-centred assessments. Candidates should have a relevant professional qualification and experience in mental health settings, particularly with children and young people.
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
The closing date is 15 October 2025
My name is James Hussain, I am the Team Manager for SecureCAMHS. I am seeking a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join our secure CAMHS team at Adel Beck Secure Children's home.
There will be an opportunity to build therapeutic relationships with young people, in order to assess risk and mental health needs. Liaison, communication and consultation with other professional groups and partner agencies within the home will be necessary to ensure that robust and holistic care plans are established around young people.
Secure CAMHS operates Monday-Friday, 8am-8pm (12-hour period). Weekend crisis service will be part of this role provided by clinicians within the secure estate (this could be telephone, video or face to face as clinically indicated).
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
Adel Beck is a 24-bedded secure children's home, home to young people aged 10-18, remanded or sentenced by the criminal courts, or accommodated for their own welfare.
This role is a unique opportunity to drive change across a setting that provides care for the most disenfranchised young people in the UK. The role requires a values-led practitioner, who is truly curious and motivated to work across systemic barriers through inter-agency working.
Part of your role will be to offer screening assessments for young people who are newly arrived at the home, and you will attend meetings held by the home, for example to review young people's risk to self or others.
You will provide person-centred assessment of their mental health needs and risk, in addition to screening for neurodevelopmental needs. You will be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team within which you can seek support to establish a plan of care and intervention for young people.
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
The post-holder will provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs, work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, and work as part of CAMHS first on-call rota.
The post-holder will promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people, and provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems.