Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves working within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team to provide assessment and treatment for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties. You will manage a caseload from triage to discharge, offering evidence-based interventions and supporting the young person's family and professional network. The position requires working across defined locality teams and contributing to CAMHS Triage and Getting Advice services. The team is dynamic, passionate about youth mental health, and committed to staff development and wellbeing.
Essential criteria
- Current registration with the NMC, Allied Health Professional with HCPC registration or UKCP registration and commitment to CPD or relevant professional registration and/or accreditation
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post-registration qualifications relevant to children's and adolescent mental health and systemic therapeutic skills.
- Experience and knowledge
- Experience of using assessment skills of mental illness and risk in children and young people
- Working knowledge of how specialist child and adolescent mental health services are organised and operate; where and how they fit into the health and social care community
- Demonstrates experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies with young people
- Experience gained in working mental health with children young people and families
- Experience of specialist training in delivering evidence-based intervention to children, young people and families
- Skills and abilities
- Good verbal communication skills, able to engage effectively with young people, families and carers as well as professionals from a wide range of services
- Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.
- Education
- Current registration with the NMC, Allied Health Professional with HCPC registration or UKCP registration and commitment to CPD or relevant professional registration and/or accreditation
- Relevant post-registration qualifications relevant to children's and adolescent mental health and systemic therapeutic skills.
- Experience and knowledge
- Experience of using assessment skills of mental illness and risk in children and young people
- Working knowledge of how specialist child and adolescent mental health services are organised and operate; where and how they fit into the health and social care community
- Demonstrates experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies with young people
- Experience gained in working mental health with children young people and families
- Experience of specialist training in delivering evidence-based intervention to children, young people and families
- Skills and abilities
- Good verbal communication skills, able to engage effectively with young people, families and carers as well as professionals from a wide range of services
- Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.
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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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
To improve children and young people's timely access to CAMHS as part of a newly developed service:
- Working within the i-Thrive framework
- Working within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
- Holding a caseload of young people from the point of triage to assessment offering evidence-based intervention and through to discharge
- Working with and supporting the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.
- Working within Getting Advice (the CAMHS front door) and across defined locality teams
- Contributing on a rota basis to CAMHS Triage and Getting Advice within Bristol and South Glos and North Somerset.
- Working with children, young people and families in an accessible/flexible approach using an outreach model
The team are a new part of the CAMHS service helping to transform access for young people. They are a dynamic team who are passionate about young people's mental health and working across CAMHS and our partner agencies. The team are committed to continuous staff development and CPD, including reflective space and have a strong f
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