Senior MH Practitioner - Nurse - Melksham

NHS; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join their Crisis and Home Treatment Service. You will engage with young people in mental health crisis and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support their needs. The role offers comprehensive training and a variety of work patterns to promote a healthy work-life balance. Competitive salary and career progression opportunities available.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualifying mental health experience.
• Registered to practice in the UK.
• Experience of care coordination and managing complex cases.

Responsibilities

• Carry out initial assessments and deliver interventions for young people in crisis.
• Provide emotional support to adolescents and/or their parents.
• Collaborate with various agencies to ensure holistic care.

Skills

Effective communication

Teamwork

Organizational skills

Reflective practice

Education

RMN, Social Worker, OT, or other relevant professional qualification

Job description

Overview

With a national drive to improve mental health and wellbeing services for children and young people, there is an opportunity to join Oxford Health CAMHS. We are seeking suitably qualified Mental Health Nurses, Learning Disability Nurses, Occupational Therapists or Social Workers to join our Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS). This BSW-wide service offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you'll carry out initial assessments and deliver time-limited interventions for young people in crisis. Your work will focus on early support and prevention, aiming to reduce the need for longer-term mental health care.

The CAHTS team provides a high-quality, responsive service for children, young people and families facing emotional and mental health difficulties. You'll also be involved in our ongoing service development, based on the i-Thrive model, ensuring support is timely, appropriate, and delivered by skilled professionals. Liaison and collaboration are key - you'll work closely with CAMHS colleagues, Children's Services, Social Care, Education, and other agencies to ensure holistic and effective care.

Join us and help shape the future of children's mental health in our community.

Main duties

We will offer you a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.

You will offer emotional support to adolescents and/or their parents who are in mental health crisis or are being supported to leave psychiatric inpatient care.

The CAHTS operates Monday to Fridays, and on a rota basis on Saturdays and Sundays and bank holidays, covering the hours of 10:00–18:00. The service development plan is to work a flexible week covering shifts across 08:00–20:00, Monday to Friday. There is also an expectation that you will support the out-of-hours core team rota.

About us

This is an opportunity to join a very supportive team. Clinical supervision and professional development are priorities for the service and preceptorship is supported.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team". Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent".

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing, including:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Details

Date posted: 25 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 per annum | pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

Reference number: 267-OC7299733-A

Job locations: Melksham Community CAMHS, Melksham Hospital, Melksham, SN12 7NZ

Job responsibilities

You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and refer to the job description, person specification and guidance notes attached to help tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, so please refer to these in your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Essential: RMN, Social Worker, OT, or other relevant professional qualification
• Registered to practice in the UK

Desirable

• Knowledge of DBT and CBT
• Non-medical prescriber qualification

Experience

• Essential: Significant post-qualifying mental health experience; caseload management/complex conditions & cases; experience of care coordination/lead professional; evidence-based, reflective practice & clinical reasoning skills in assessment & treatment; formulating policies/procedures
• Desirable: Experience of working with children and/or young people with mental health difficulties; experience of being a care coordinator or managing a caseload; organizing and participating in project work

Professional & Personal Skills

• Essential: Effective communicator with patients, carers & staff; good teamwork; organizational skills for own & others' workload

Disclosure and registration

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.