Senior Mental Health Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join the St Helens CYPMHS community team. The role involves managing a caseload, conducting assessments, case management, and providing therapeutic interventions for children and young people with mental health needs. The successful candidate will work within the THRIVE Framework, collaborating with multi-agency partners to provide outstanding support.
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a caseload of children and young people with a range of moderate mental health needs.
- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experienced in and the ability to undertake case management and the supervision of students as required
- Knowledge and skills in the complete range of approaches within the field as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.
- Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
- Have experienced in providing risk assessments
- Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
- Ability to work within a culturally diversive community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.
- Ability to take full clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
- Working within a children community mental health setting
- Experience of delivering evidencebased psychological therapy e.g., CBT
- Experience of providing supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- A level knowledge of theory and practice of specialist therapy / interventions
- Experience of delivering teaching, training.
- Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Information technology and management skills using word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software.
- Level of knowledge and/or training and other psychological therapies
- Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
- Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Information technology and management skills using word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software.
- Knowledge of research design and methodology consistent with practice to at least
- Degree level or equivalent.
- Must hold one of the following: EMHP Graduate or Post Graduate Qualification CYWP Graduate or Post Graduate Qualification PWP Graduate or Post Graduate Qualification CBT Post Graduate Certificate/Diploma and where applicable hold a professional registration with the relevant accrediting bod
- OR Core Professional Qualification in one of the following areas - Nursing - Social Work - Occupational Therapy
- Senior EMHP Qualification Senior CYWP Qualificatio
- PWP Supervision Qualification
- Values
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
- Interpersonal skills of a high level to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS.
- Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and lead a multi-agency care plan / risk management plan
- Knowledge of legislation and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the full range of client groups.
- Physical stamina to support clinical. caseload which requires intense concentration whilst sitting with client groups
- Ability to organise and co-ordinate areas of work that are complex and demanding.
- Ability to convey and to model an understanding of the ethical guidelines in all areas of professional conduct.
- Ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust Values at all times.
- A commitment to the continuous improvement of services using feedback from individual clients, families, user surveys and clinical research.
- Emotional stamina, and resilience to respond constructively in highly stressful situations
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills to multidisciplinary work.
- Knowledge/Experience
- Experience of managing a caseload of children and young people with a range of moderate mental health needs.
- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experienced in and the ability to undertake case management and
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 30 August 2026
Job summary
St Helens CYPMHS has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to come and join our well-established community team, specialising in Child and Young Person Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) in the St Helens Borough.
We are looking to appoint a 6-month fixed-term Senior Mental Health Practitioner.
As part of the role of a senior mental health practitioner, you would be tasked with the duty (referral management), assessments, case management and therapeutic intervention for children and young people (CYP).
St Helens CYPMHS has successfully implemented Thrive and works closely with our multi-agency partners throughout the St Helens borough. This includes working within the THRIVE offer with services such as education institutes, children's social care and third-sector organisations. This is an important aspect of our work as we continue to strive for outstanding support for CYP and their families.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring [contact details removed] (DBS) Check. We would welcome applications from experienced nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and non-core practitioners with mental health experience.
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