Lead Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This Lead Practitioner role offers a diverse and developmental opportunity within a Children and Young People's Mental Health (CYPMH) team. The team provides assessment and intensive home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission for children and young people in crisis across Warrington, Halton, Knowsley & St Helens. You will provide clinical oversight, specialist interventions, advice, and supervision, working collaboratively with community teams and external agencies. The service operates 24 hours, requiring support across these hours.
Essential criteria
- Degree, or equivalent, or equivalent work-based experience.
- Registration with relevant professional body Appropriate Prescriber
- Evidence of CPD/short courses.
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Post graduate diploma or working towards MSC in advanced clinical practice.
- Post registration qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of successful multi-agency working.
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients / carers / colleagues.
Desirable criteria
- First line management experience.
- IT literate
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Risk assessment skills.
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
- Report writing skills.
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
- Research skills
- Understanding of multi-agency working.
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
- Degree, or equivalent, or equivalent work-based experience.
- Registration with relevant professional body Appropriate Prescriber
- Evidence of CPD/short courses.
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Post graduate diploma or working towards MSC in advanced clinical practice.
- Post registration qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of successful multi-agency working.
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients / carers / colleagues.
- First line management experience.
- IT literate
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Risk assessment skills.
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
- Report writing skills.
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
- Research skills
- Understanding of multi-agency working.
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Practitioner
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
This post offers a great diverse set of opportunities to join a developing team.
The scope within this role is skill enhancing and a developmental opportunity.
The Team provides assessment and intensive home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission for Children and young people in Crisis, in the areas of Warrington, Halton, Knowsley & St Helens.
The team work collaboratively with our Local CAMHS Community Team and a number of agencies and service providers in a variety of community bases.
The service is a 24 hour service and the successful candidate will be needed to support the team across these hours.
Main duties of the job
As a Lead Practitioner, you will provide a specialised role in the development and implementation of services and care pathways for children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
You will be responsible for the clinical oversight of the shift and supporting the team throughout the shift.
You will be expected to provide specialist interventions, advice, consultancy and supervision to both colleagues and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to
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