Specialist Practitioner

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS foundation trust in the UK is looking for a Specialist Practitioner to provide CAMHS assessments and interventions to children and young people facing mental health challenges. This role involves working within a multi-disciplinary team to enhance mental well-being, ensuring effective care management and support for service users. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in mental health settings. The role requires strong assessment skills and the ability to manage complex cases effectively.

Benefits

Occupational health services

Staff counselling

Diversity and inclusion networks

Qualifications

• Must carry out comprehensive mental health assessments.
• Ability to manage crises and make risk judgments.
• Work independently and manage own caseload.

Responsibilities

• Provide therapeutic mental health assessment and intervention.
• Enhance well-being of children and young people.
• Coordinate discharge plans and manage caseloads.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Crisis management

Caseload management

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Current professional registration

Job description

Specialist Practitioner

The closing date is 23 February 2026

To work as part of a cohesive team, through an assertive outreach approach to provide CAMHS specialist assessment and intervention to a diverse and challenging group of young people and their families, who present with significant mental health difficulties and who are open to the Youth Justice System, those who use substances where there is a direct relationship between their mental health and substance use, those who present with First Episode Psychosis and At Risk Mental State and those who display Harmful sexual behaviour.

Main duties of the job

To be an effective member of the Multi disciplinary team and provide therapeutic mental health assessment and intervention within a variety of community settings so to better engage children and young people.

Promote the safety and welfare of service-users and their family.

Co-ordinate and facilitate an appropriate discharge plan.

Manage a caseload whilst considering and adhering to safeguarding policy and procedure and national and local legislation.

Support peers and colleagues and promote a teamworking environment.

Ensure suitable risk management and care plans are formulated for all clinical cases.

Maintain contemporaneous records in alignment with Trust policy.

Work in partnership with other teams within the Nottinghamshire and bordering CAMHS Services.

About us

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

Job responsibilities

To work as part of the wider multi-disciplinary Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team to enhance the mental and emotional well-being of children and young people within Nottinghamshire.

Provide therapeutic mental health assessment and intervention within a variety of community settings so to better engage children and young people.

Provide a defined level of CAMHS specialist assessment and interventions to a diverse and challenging group of young people and their families, under the care programme approach, who present with significant mental health difficulties and who are open to the Youth Justice System, those who use substances where there is a direct relationship between their mental health and substance use, those who present with First Episode Psychosis and At Risk Mental State and those who display Harmful sexual behaviour.

To provide realistic timely or occasionally intensive support to patients within their own community setting.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Appropriate and relevant professional qualification
• Holds current professional registration
• further specialist knowledge/post registration experience relevant to post

Skills

• Demonstrate an ability to carry out a comprehensive mental health assessment.
• To be able to identify and manage crises and to make judgments related to risk
• Able to work on own initiative; prioritise and manage own caseload. Carry out new/comprehensive assessments in a wide variety of community settings.

Experience

• Experience of ability to plan, implement and evaluate a package of care for young people and their families.
• Experience of working within a multi disciplinary mental health team.
• Experience of the mental health impacts of the justice system, substance use and the needs of those on the ARMS/EIP pathway

Knowledge

• Awareness of legislation, policy and guidance relating to Children and young people and emotional and mental health
• Knowledge of child and adult safeguarding

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.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust