Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS CRHTT
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within Birmingham's CAMHS Crisis & Home Treatment Team. You will provide rapid, specialist mental health support to children and young people experiencing acute mental health crises, delivering urgent assessments, safety planning, and intensive home-based interventions. The position involves working closely with families and other services to ensure coordinated care and prevent hospital admissions. It requires resilience, autonomy, and a commitment to trauma-informed care.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver urgent assessments and formulate risk and safety plans for young people in crisis.
- Provide intensive home-based treatment to stabilise young people and prevent hospital admission.
- Work closely with families, schools, social care, paediatrics, and inpatient services for coordinated care.
- Act as a key point of contact, offering skilled de-escalation and brief therapeutic interventions.
- Contribute to case formulation, crisis planning, medication monitoring, and high-quality documentation.
Essential criteria
- Delivering and /or facilitating evidence based interventions to a wide range of service users and carers;
- Experience delivering community-based or home-treatment interventions.
- Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience supporting safe discharge planning and coordinating care across services
- Experience working within CAMHS or a mental health crisis service, ideally with children and young people.
- Therapeutic interventions
- Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
- Deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible Be the best you can be, always look for ways to improve and develop to reach your potential
- Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
- Joint working with others, e.g. patients, colleagues in the delivery of high quality healthcare
- Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive
- NMC or HCPC registered professional
- Knowledge of common CAMHS crisis presentations, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, behavioural dysregulation, and eating disorders.
- Understanding of equality, diversity, cultural competence, and trauma-informed practice.
- Understanding of equality, diversity, cultural competence, and trauma-informed practice.
- Skilled in de-escalation, crisis management, and delivering brief, evidence-based interventions in high-pressure situations.
- Ability to complete rapid, holistic mental health and risk assessments for children and young people in acute crisis.
Desirable criteria
- Strong understanding of child and adolescent development, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and family dynamics.
- Relevant Post qualifying qualification e.g. or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of training
- Specific qualification in a relevant therapeutic speciality e.g. counselling, Family Therapy, CBT, substance misuse
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.
Posted 8d ago · Closes in 7d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
If you're a clinician who thrives on meaningful work, rapid decision-making, and the chance to potentially change the trajectory of a young person's life, this is the role that will ignite your passion. Birmingham's CAMHS Crisis & Home Treatment Team is looking for exceptional professionals who want to be part of a service that is transforming how urgent mental health care is delivered to children, young people, and their families.
This is not a traditional CAMHS post. This is frontline, relationship-driven, high-impact work where your clinical expertise becomes a lifeline for young people in their most vulnerable moments. You'll be joining a dynamic, multidisciplinary team that blends clinical excellence with creativity, compassion, and a commitment to delivering care where it matters most in the home and community.
You'll be at the heart of crisis care providing rapid assessments, safety planning, and intensive home-based interventions that prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and keep young people safely supported in their own environments.
Main duties of the job
This role provides rapid, specialist mental health support to children and young people experiencing acute mental health crisis. As a senior clinician within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team, you will deliver urgent assessments, formulate risk and safety plans, and provide intensive h
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