Mental Health Practitioner - Band 6
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner within the Kirklees core CAMHS team. The post holder will manage a complex CAMHS caseload, deliver therapeutic group work and individual interventions, and conduct assessments. Key responsibilities include participating in the CAMHS entry pathway, undertaking duty roles, and offering clinical supervision and training to junior staff. The role also involves contributing to service evaluation, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.
Essential criteria
- 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).
- Personal Attributes
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Commitment to multi-agency approach.
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
- Clarity of decision making.
- 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).
- Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
- Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
- Membership of professional body.
Desirable criteria
- Post Registration qualification e.g. degree.
- Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
- A teaching and assessing qualification.
- 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.
- Multidisciplinary team working.
- Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
- Experience of supervising/mentoring junior staff.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance e.g. NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Childrens act, Education Act, Working Together, Childrens NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
- Clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
- Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice.
- Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
- Experience of safeguarding children and young people.
- Experience of community settings.
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
- Special Knowledge & Skills
- Good verbal and communication skills.
- Ability to manage own caseload.
- Good negotiation skills, and problem solving skills.
- Customer service orientation.
- Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
- IT skills.
- Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.
- Training
- Training and experience relating to specialist CAMHS.
- Experience of delivering training to others.
- 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).
- Personal Attributes
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Commitment to multi-agency approach.
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
- Clarity of decision making.
- 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).
- Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine.
- Dip SW or relevant mental health profession.
- Membership of professional body.
- Post Registration qualification e.g. degree.
- Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling).
- A teaching and assessing qualification.
- 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.
- Multidisciplinary team working.
- Inter-agency liaison and consultation.
- Experience of supervising/mentoring junior staff.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance e.g. NHS plan, Mental Health Legislation, Childrens act, Education Act, Working Together, Childrens NSF, Every Child Matters, etc.
- Clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
- Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice.
- Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
- Experience of safeguarding children and young people.
- Experience of community settings.
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge and experi
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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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South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Mental Health Practitioner - Band 6
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
30 Hours
Are you passionate
about Children/Young Peoples mental health and want to make a real difference?
A career in Kirklees core (CAMHS) team as a band 6 Mental Health Practitioner
may be what you are seeking.
We are recruiting a
MHP with experience working in mental health to help us strive to make a
difference to the health and wellbeing of the young people and their families
in our communities.
Our vision is to
deliver high quality care that is safe, simple and easy to access. This
opportunity will include, working with a complex CAMHS caseload, delivering and
co-ordinating therapeutic group work and individual interventions, offering
assessments, supervision and participating in the facilitation of CAMHS entry
pathway and undertaking CAMHS duty role. The post holder will offer clinical
supervision and training to members of the wider team. Additional
responsibilities include contributing to service evaluation, audit, and quality
improvement initiatives, as well as supporting service development to ensure
care remains evidence-based, accessible, and responsive to the needs of
children, young people, and families.
**All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and
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