CAMHS Registered Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This permanent, full-time (37.5 hours) or part-time role is for an experienced Band 6 practitioner to join the Core Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team. The successful candidate will provide assessments and evidence-based interventions for children and young people up to 18 years old, working within a strong multi-disciplinary team. Key duties include offering specialist CAMHS assessments, creating formulations, and delivering goal-focused interventions, including individual, family, and group therapies. The role also involves care coordination for complex cases, with a focus on self-harm assessments and personalized care planning.
Key responsibilities
- Offer assessments for children, young people and families
- Create formulations to aid an understanding of the child's needs
- Utilise evidence based, goal focused and effective interventions which lead to a positive discharge from our service.
- Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people as well as their families/ career's who present with emotional and mental health difficulties
- Provide Care Coordinator responsibilities for a caseload of children and young people presenting with complex and high-risk mental health issues.
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related services and/or adult mental health settings.
- Experience of undertaking specialist Self Harm assessments of children and young people
- Significant clinical experience of specialist care planning & case management/care coordination (including complex clinical risk assessment & management) within a mental health or learning disability setting
- Professional Health or Social Care qualification inc BABCP KSA route
- Evidence of formal post registration learning
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Post graduate training within a relevant CAMHS field or skill
- Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice)
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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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
CAMHS Registered Practitioner
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are full time 37.5 per week.
We are looking for an experienced Band 6 to join our Core Child and Adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) teams.
Within Core CAMHS we offer assessments and interventions for the children and young people who are accepted into our service.
We pride ourselves on working within a strong multi-disciplinary team (MDT) including;
Nurses
Occupational Therapists
Social workers
Creative therapists
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
We are looking for someone who has clinical experience of working within a MDT and also supporting the wider network for the child and their family.
CAMHS continue to deliver high quality specialist mental health services to children and young people up to their 18th birthday.
We are a supportive, experienced and progressive multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to;
Offer assessments for children, young people and families
create formulations to aid an understanding of the child's needs
utilise evidence based, goal focused and effective interventions which lead to a positive discharge from our service.
We offer individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer
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