CYPMHS Practitioner - Cherry Tree Cottage
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 6 clinician at Cherry Tree Cottage, a specialist children's home providing short-term support for children in mental health crisis. The practitioner will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide crisis containment and therapeutic support to children and young people with social and mental health difficulties. Responsibilities include mental health assessments, risk assessments, care plan management, and engaging in daily home activities. The service aims to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate timely discharge, using the ARC theoretical framework.
Key responsibilities
- Undertake mental health assessment, risk assessment, care plan management and reviews for CYP with complex mental health and co-morbid social care needs.
- Undertake crisis containment work including therapeutically engaging activities for CYP admitted to the home for a limited time.
- Provide advice and consultation to other team members regarding the mental health care of CYP in the home.
- Provide good standards of reparative parenting for children and adolescents which safeguards and promotes their welfare.
- Follow the day-to-day activities of the home including; cooking and cleaning; taking children to school, activities and appointments; administering medication, maintaining the home environment and acting as a good role model.
- Work with the team leader and manager to ensure clinical governance initiatives and service framework targets are adhered to.
Essential criteria
- Experience working with Children & Young People in a health environment
- Experience working with CYP in a mental crisis environment
- Additional areas of training through short courses
Desirable criteria
- RNMH/RNLD/RMN/Registered Social Worker
- Degree with experience of postgraduate level study or the equivalent experience ENB 998/Mentorship
- Evidence of management or leadership development
- Membership of professional bodies NMC
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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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
CYPMHS Practitioner - Cherry Tree Cottage
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Cherry Tree Cottage Specialist Children's home
Social Care and Health together
We are open to receive applications from various disciplines and backgrounds including Nursing, OT, Social Care, Therapy, and / or those with experience working with children and young people in care.
Are you passionate about getting it right for children and young people in care?
Do you want to be part of a unique short-term service to supportchildren in mental health crisis, prevent their admission to hospital or enable timely discharge from hospital and successfully move them on to a settled placement?
Do you want to be part of a Multidisciplinary team with integral Health, Social Care and Psychiatry expertise.
With Innovation at its heart; We are looking to recruit a team who want to be fundamental in the success of this first of its kind service In Hertfordshire.
Cherry Tree Cottage is an Ofsted registered children's home operated through an integrated health and social care staffing model (HPFT and HCC Social Services) to care for children looked after. The home provides 3 beds for children with mental health presentations who may be repeat attenders at A&E /S136 suite or at risk of /or have had admission to Tier 4
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