Senior Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing community-based mental health support to children and young people as part of the Truro Integrated Neighbourhood Team. The practitioner will take a whole-family approach, addressing the needs of both the child and their parents/carers, particularly focusing on trauma and social inequalities. The position requires developing and delivering place-based early interventions in partnership with primary care and the voluntary sector. It aims to transform Child and Adolescent Mental Health services across Cornwall.
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC, AHP, SW, BABCP, BPS
- Professional qualification - RN (Mental Health) / OT / Social Worker / Clinical Associate in Psychology
- Post Qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or evidence-based intervention.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of professional updating
- Experience of working within a mental health setting
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting
- Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs in a child focussed multi-agency setting.
- Education and Training
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC, AHP, SW, BABCP, BPS
- Professional qualification - RN (Mental Health) / OT / Social Worker / Clinical Associate in Psychology
- Post Qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or evidence-based intervention.
- Evidence of professional updating
- Experience of working within a mental health setting
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting
- Experience of working with children and adolescents with complex mental health needs in a child focussed multi-agency setting.
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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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Join us in transforming Child and Adolescent Mental Health across Cornwall
We are looking for an innovative and experienced practitioner to provide community-based mental health support as part of a joined-up neighbourhood approach to care.
The CYP Practitioner is a newly created post that will work as part of the Truro Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT), sitting at the heart of a three-post child and young people mental health model developed in partnership with CAMHS, and local voluntary and community sector organisations.
This role takes a whole-family approach, recognising that a child's wellbeing is closely connected to the wellbeing of their parent or carer. The role focuses on understanding and addressing the needs of both the child and the parent, recognising that children's emotional and mental health difficulties can often be linked to unresolved trauma experienced by parents or carers. By working with the whole family, the role helps create safer, more stable relationships and improves outcomes for children and families.
The post holder will work primarily with children and young people presenting with mental health difficulties but will also consider parental needs drawing from models and frameworks of s
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