Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
The Children in Care Team is seeking a full-time Band 6 Specialist Mental Health Practitioner. This role involves working collaboratively with young people and their care networks, offering direct therapeutic intervention, systemic practice, consultation, and training. The practitioner will provide assessment and therapeutic interventions at Tier 3, focusing on attachment and complex trauma.
Essential criteria
- A nationally recognised professional qualification in health or Social Work which must be registered with the appropriate professional governing body, such as, HCPC, UKCC.
- Substantial experience within the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
- Awareness of national and local policies and how these impact on service provision.
- A nationally recognised professional qualification in health or Social Work which must be registered with the appropriate professional governing body, such as, HCPC, UKCC.
- Substantial experience within the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
- Awareness of national and local policies and how these impact on service provision.
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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Job summary
The Children in Care Team are looking to recruit a full time, Band 6 Specialist Mental Health Practitioner to join their team of multi-disciplinary professionals.
The Children in Care Team offer consultation, training and intervention to children and young people and their care and professional networks where presentation relates to attachment and complex trauma.
The successful candidate will:
Work collaboratively with young people and their care networks
Offer direct therapeutic intervention, systemic practice, consultation and training to staff within the service and other agencies
Provide assessment and therapeutic interventions at Tier 3
Main duties of the job
- To ensure that care activities are research based and in keeping with changes in the field of activity.
- To contribute to the development of ideas and innovative practice and propose changes to protocols and procedures within CAMHS where required.
- To initiate and participate in departmental audit as requested by the Team Manager or Quality Improvement Lead.
- To participate in the Duty rota on a weekly basis.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
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