Senior Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner

Cornwall Partnership; Truro; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust seeks a Senior Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner (Band 6) to join the Truro Integrated Neighbourhood Team. The role focuses on a whole-family approach, delivering community-based mental health support within a joined-up neighbourhood model.

The post supports children, young people, and families, collaborating with primary care and voluntary sectors to improve mental health outcomes in Cornwall.

Qualifications

• Current professional registration – NMC, HCPC, AHP, SW, BABCP, BPS.
• Professional qualification – RN (Mental Health) / OT / Social Worker / Clinical Associate in Psychology.
• Post Qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or evidence-based intervention.
• Evidence of professional updating.
• Experience of working within a mental health setting.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting.
• Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs in a child focussed multi-agency setting.

Education

Current professional registration – NMC, HCPC, AHP, SW, BABCP, BPS

Professional qualification – RN (Mental Health) / OT / Social Worker / Clinical Associate in Psychology

Post Qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or evidence-based intervention

Evidence of professional updating

Job description

Senior Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner

Band 6

Main area CAMHS Grade Band 6 Contract 12 months (Fixed term or secondment) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 201-26-720-C

Site Carrick/Mid CAMHS Town Truro Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

Join us in transforming Child and Adolescent Mental Health across Cornwall

We are looking for an innovative and experienced practitioner to provide community-based mental health support as part of a joined-up neighbourhood approach to care.

The CYP Practitioner is a newly created post that will work as part of the Truro Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT), sitting at the heart of a three-post child and young people mental health model developed in partnership with CAMHS, and local voluntary and community sector organisations.

This role takes a whole-family approach, recognising that a child's wellbeing is closely connected to the wellbeing of their parent or carer. The role focuses on understanding and addressing the needs of both the child and the parent, recognising that children's emotional and mental health difficulties can often be linked to unresolved trauma experienced by parents or carers. By working with the whole family, the role helps create safer, more stable relationships and improves outcomes for children and families.

The post holder will work primarily with children and young people presenting with mental health difficulties but will also consider parental needs drawing from models and frameworks of social inequalities and community psychology, for example The Power Threat Meaning Framework.

The ability and interest in developing and delivery of place based early intervention in partnership with primary care, and the voluntary sector is key for this role.

Main duties of the job

About Truro INT

An Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) brings together primary care, social care, the NHS, and voluntary and community organisations to work collaboratively in support of local people. By combining expertise and resources, the team is collectively responsible for improving the health and wellbeing of the community through holistic, person-centered care that is flexible, joined up, proactive and preventative.

Truro INT has a shared ambition to innovate and develop a sustainable model of care for the future. Working in partnership across organisations and with local communities, the team focuses on understanding the needs of the neighbourhood, building strong relationships, and communicating in ways that inspire action. Through reflection, collaboration and a focus on what matters most to residents, Truro INT is helping to improve health and care outcomes across the city.

Working for our organisation

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see 'supporting documents'.

Person specification

Education and Training

• Current professional registration – NMC, HCPC, AHP, SW, BABCP, BPS
• Professional qualification – RN (Mental Health) / OT / Social Worker / Clinical Associate in Psychology
• Post Qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or evidence-based intervention.
• Evidence of professional updating

Experience

• Experience of working within a mental health setting
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting
• Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs in a child focussed multi-agency setting.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Lisa Thorne Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01872246980.

Additional information

Please feel free to contact Lisa Thorne (CAMHS Team Manager) for an informal discussion about the team, role, and requirements.

Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time. Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV's as this does not count as an introduction.

The Health Jobs UK website has jobs from numerous employers, within health and care across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute medical, surgical and specialist services to a population of around 500,000 which can increase significantly during the busy holiday periods.