Mental Health Practitioner

The Methodist Church in Britain; West Alvington; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Protected CPD time

Training pathways and leadership

Funding for qualifications such as the

Induction and preceptorship programmes

Open learning culture within a team

Job summary

Livewell Southwest CAMHS is offering a 30-hour-a-week Mental Health Practitioner post focused on holistic assessments of children and young people with suspected or diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders. The role requires risk management, multi-agency liaison, and delivery of NICE-guided interventions.

You will hold a complex caseload, provide clinical supervision, and contribute to duty rotas, audits, and safeguarding processes, while maintaining accurate records.

Qualifications

• Degree in health or social care and current professional registration.
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to the field.
• Experience with neurodiversity and multi-agency working is expected.

Responsibilities

• Carry out holistic assessments of children and young people with suspected or diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders, including evidence for diagnosis where appropriate.
• Hold a complex caseload, assessing and risk managing cases, including priority assessments and multi-agency risk plans.
• Deliver specialist individual, group and consultation interventions in line with NICE guidance.
• Provide clinical lead to non-registered staff for delegated tasks.
• Liaise with schools, social care and other multi-agency partners, attending meetings such as CAF meetings and child protection conferences.
• Make autonomous decisions on treatment and discharge, agreed with children, families and partners, and write summaries and correspondence to GPs.
• Work with families at home, in education and community settings, and at base.
• Contribute to the CAMHS Duty Rota, which operates daily.
• Keep accurate clinical, risk, child protection and activity records on the electronic system.
• Attend clinical supervision (minimum one hour a month), child protection supervision and team meetings.
• Organise own workload under the support of the Clinical Team Manager.
• Contribute to audit, quality and patient safety activity, clinical outcome measures and team protocols.

Skills

Holistic assessment

Risk assessment

Multi-agency collaboration

Clinical leadership

Education

Degree in health or social care

Current professional registration

Continued professional development

Job description

This 30-hour-a-week Mental Health Practitioner post sits in the neurodiversity pathway of Livewell Southwest's CAMHS service, within a multidisciplinary team. The core of the work is holistic assessment of children and young people with suspected or diagnosed ADHD, autism, learning disability, tics or Tourette's, alongside managing complex risk and delivering specialist interventions. Close work with schools, social care and other agencies, and duty rota cover, set this role apart. Sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route may not be available.

What the job involves

• Carry out holistic assessments of children and young people with suspected or diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders, including evidence for diagnosis where appropriate
• Hold a complex caseload, assessing and risk managing cases, including priority assessments and multi-agency risk plans
• Deliver specialist individual, group and consultation interventions in line with NICE guidance
• Provide clinical lead to non-registered staff for delegated tasks
• Liaise with schools, social care and other multi-agency partners, attending meetings such as CAF meetings and child protection conferences
• Make autonomous decisions on treatment and discharge, agreed with children, families and partners, and write summaries and correspondence to GPs
• Work with families at home, in education and community settings, and at base
• Contribute to the CAMHS Duty Rota, which operates daily
• Keep accurate clinical, risk, child protection and activity records on the electronic system
• Attend clinical supervision (minimum one hour a month), child protection supervision and team meetings
• Organise own workload under the support of the Clinical Team Manager
• Contribute to audit, quality and patient safety activity, clinical outcome measures and team protocols

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree in health or social care
• Current professional registration
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to the field

Experience

• Experience of neurodiversity, through work and life
• Experience of multi-agency or multi-disciplinary working
• Post-registration experience working with people who have experienced mental health difficulties
• Experience of assessment, risk assessment, care planning, risk management and assessing capacity
• Experience of multi-agency safeguarding systems such as child protection conferences and child in need meetings
• Experience of providing supervision, assessing and mentoring

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for children and learning disability, including the Children Act 2004, Mental Capacity Act and Valuing People
• Knowledge of mental health problems affecting children and young people in care
• Knowledge of child development theory and its application to practice
• Well-established case management and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise
• Competent assessment and intervention skills

Other

• Able and willing to work across a 7-day service

Nice to have

• Postgraduate training and evidence of continued professional development
• Completed supervision or mentoring training for students
• Post-registration experience working with children and young people who have experienced mental health difficulties
• Experience of total communication techniques to help people communicate effectively

What’s offered

• Protected CPD time
• Training pathways and leadership programmes
• Funding for qualifications such as the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships
• Induction and preceptorship programmes
• Open learning culture within a supportive team