CAMHS - Mental Health Practitioner (Oldham) | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS FT; Texas; On-site; USD 28,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust in Oldham is seeking a CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner to join the core team. The role involves autonomous work within a multi-disciplinary team, conducting routine mental health assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions for young people and their families.

You will formulate treatment plans, assess risk, and monitor outcomes in line with safeguarding policies and local transformation plans.

Qualifications

• Excellent assessment skills and the ability to formulate clinical decisions and management plans.

Responsibilities

• Assess and formulate treatment plans for young people in CAMHS.
• Provide ongoing evidence-based interventions and monitor outcomes.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver care and manage risk.
• Communicate effectively with service users, families and partners across education and children’s services.

Skills

Assessment skills

Clinical decision making

Risk assessment

Autonomy

Job description

CAMHS - Mental Health Practitioner (Oldham) | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate as we are about high quality care.

There is a full time and part time 0.6 FTE role available. The successful candidate will need the ability to work autonomously within the context of a multi-disciplinary team approach and undertake specific work with young people and their families. Excellent assessment skills and the ability to formulate clinical decisions and management plans are essential, including assessment and management of risk.

The role will be within Oldham CAMHS Core team, assessing and formulating treatment plans for young people. This will involve both routine mental health assessments and providing ongoing evidenced based interventions.

You will strive to achieve the best for every young person, show commitment to delivering evidence based practice and have the capability of making clinical decisions around complex and emotive issues, supported by knowledge of relevant legislation and safeguarding in relation to the client group. You will monitor and evaluate treatment offered to service users adhering to professional and Trust guidelines and using routine outcome measures related to service development and reporting. You must be an excellent communicator, be flexible, self motivated and have a willingness to build links with colleagues across team and agencies.

This is a busy multi-disciplinaryCAMHSteam which includes nurses, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. A key focus of the service leadership team will be implementing transformation that ensures timely access to high quality care. Our vision is for our local community to be well equipped to support the young people of Oldham to grow up with good emotional health and wellbeing. We work closely with our partners in education, children’s services and the 3rdsector to achieve the recently developed ambitious Local Transformation Plan forCAMHSservices. This plan provides us with the guide and resources to begin delivering our vision of havingCAMHSworkers available in new ways, and working closely with children’s universal and targeted services in each of our locality areas.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. Were really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure were a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Please note, this role is within the core team and therefore confidence and skills with formulating treatment plans and providing intervention is essential.

This advert closes on Friday 30 Oct 2026