Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS Eating Disorder Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 32
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an experienced and passionate Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the award-winning CAMHS Eating Disorder Team in Wakefield. You will take on a clinical leadership role, supporting children and their families affected by eating disorders, including ARFID. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, managing a caseload, supporting pathway developments, and providing support to young people in general hospitals. The position involves delivering high-quality, innovative care within a multi-disciplinary team.
Key responsibilities
- Undertake assessments and screens for children and young people with suspected or diagnosed eating disorders.
- Provide consultation and teaching for other agencies/professionals and supervision to other disciplines within CAMHS.
- Manage cases of high complexity, requiring specialised assessment and therapeutic skills.
- Deliver and devise complex, young person-centred packages of care and effective evidence-based treatment following NICE guidelines.
- Liaise with external agencies such as Education, Social Services, and Paediatric Services.
- Actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning/delivery and coordinate parent support groups.
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine
- Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD. LAC, eating disorder
- Dip SW or relevant mental health profession
- A teaching and assessing qualification
- Membership of professional body
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
- Masters Level qualification
- Formal management/supervisory qualification
- Experience of delivering training to others
- Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements
- Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Inter-agency liaison and consultation
- Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding
- Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
- Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice
- Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.
- Experience of community settings
- Physical Attributes
- Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
- Special Knowledge/Skills
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner
- Excellent negotiation skills, and problem solving skills
- Customer service orientation
- Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
- IT skills.
- Personal Attributes
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Commitment to multi-agency approach/working
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative
- and assertive
- Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure/crisis situations
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
- Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
- Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
- To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
- A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
- To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent and respectful.
- Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine
- Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD. LAC, eating disorder
- Dip SW or relevant mental health profession
- A teaching and assessing qualification
- Membership of professional body
- Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
- Masters Level qualification
- Formal management/supervisory qualification
- Experience of delivering training to others
- Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements
- Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Inter-agency liaison and consultation
- Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding
- Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
- Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice
- Advanced experience of safeguarding children and
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South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS Eating Disorder Team
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Part-time - 32 hours per week
My name is Jen Wilson and I am
the Team Manager for the Eating Disorder Team within Wakefield CAMHS. We are
looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Mental Health Practitioner to
take on a clinical leadership role within our service which supports children,
and their families, who are affected by an eating disorder or disordered eating
including Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
Our Eating Disorder Team is an
award-winning multi-disciplinary team; you will work closely with Psychiatrists
and Dietitians to ensure the delivery of a comprehensive tailored package to
meet the needs of the individual.
This position is ideal for
someone who has a strong experience of working with children and young people
with an eating disorder diagnosis or disordered eating and is passionate about
delivering high quality innovative care to children and their families in a
community mental health service.
The successful candidate will
offer assessments and screenings, hold a caseload of children and young people
and support pathway developments within the team and wider service. You would
be expected to offer support to young people admitted to a general hospital for
physical he
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