Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This permanent full-time role in the Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health Core Tamworth team involves delivering high-quality mental health services to children and young people with complex needs. You will manage a defined caseload, providing assessment and evidence-based interventions, and be skilled in risk assessment and management. The role also includes providing supervision to other team members and participating in team and service development. Applicants should be RMNs, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists with current registration, or educated to degree level in mental health/social care.
Essential criteria
- Core profession qualification relevant to children's mental health / social care: First level professional Registered Nurse, Social worker, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Art Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Family Therapist, CYP Trained CBT Therapist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist or equivalent with demonstrable knowledge and continuous post qualified experience/professional development
- oProfessional registration with HCPC, NMC or equivalent (as per Job Description)
Desirable criteria
- oPsychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, CBTp, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
- oRegistered practice assessor/supervisor
- [contact details removed] with CYP who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
- oExperience of assessing, planning, co- ordinating and managing CYP with mental health problems in a community setting
- oExperience of working in a CAMHS, crisis or community setting
- oExperience of working with clients at risk of admission
- Qualifications and Training
- Core profession qualification relevant to children's mental health / social care: First level professional Registered Nurse, Social worker, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Art Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Family Therapist, CYP Trained CBT Therapist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist or equivalent with demonstrable knowledge and continuous post qualified experience/professional development
- oProfessional registration with HCPC, NMC or equivalent (as per Job Description)
- oPsychological intervention Qualification including EMDR, CBT, CBTp, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
- oRegistered practice assessor/supervisor
- [contact details removed] with CYP who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
- oExperience of assessing, planning, co- ordinating and managing CYP with mental health problems in a community setting
- oExperience of working in a CAMHS, crisis or community setting
- oExperience of working with clients at risk of admission
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
The Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health Core Tamworth team are recruiting a Mental Health Practitioner in CAMHS. The post is a permanent one and working 37.5 hours per week
In the role you will deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children and young people with serious and enduring mental health difficulties. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on working with children and young people and their families who experience a complex range of needs and difficulties.
Acting as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence-based interventions using a collaborative approach and will be skilled at risk assessment and management. You will complement the multi-disciplinary working of the team, providing supervision for other team members, as agreed with the Team Lead.
You will participate in team and service development and evaluation. Liaison, advice and consultation with a wide range of agencies is central to the role.
If you a RMN / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist with current registration or educated to degree level in mental health/social care / equivalent experience within the mental health field of working we would love to hear fro
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