Senior Clinical Practitioner – Integrated Front Door
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
“Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for an experienced and adaptable Senior Clinical Practitioner to join the Integrated Front Door (IFD) team within Dorset Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service (CYPMH). You will be the first point of clinical contact, providing timely assessments, advice, and signposting, exercising advanced clinical judgment. The position involves supporting existing teams during a growth period and will evolve as the service develops, potentially including extended operational hours. You will also provide clinical leadership and contribute to service development.
Key responsibilities
- Receive and respond to referrals into CYPMH via the Integrated Front Door.
- Apply evidence-based clinical judgment to assess needs and formulate care plans.
- Escalate high-risk cases and ensure robust risk management and provide specialist mental health advice and consultation to professionals.
- Champion integrated working across agencies and contribute to service development.
- Support the clinical development of team members and mentor colleagues.
Essential criteria
- Post graduate degree level study or equivalent in relevant profession.
- Current registration with appropriate professional body, eg NMC / HCPC / UKCP
- Core professional qualifications as Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Applied Psychologist, Occupational Therapist or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience of working at Band 6 with young people their families and carers.
- The experience and ability to provide clinical and/or management supervision.
- Proven ability to communicate clearly in difficult and highly complex situations.
- Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care, for young people
- Demonstrable experience of working as part of a CAMHS Team
- Experience of effective working with multidisciplinary teams and other agencies.
- Experience of making judgements in complex operational or clinical matters
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues and contributing to training within a safeguarding environment.
- Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively with all staff to ensure programmes of care are implemented.
- Ability to carry out clinical supervision effectively.
- Able to influence and work with local partners in health and social care developing new services.
- Evidence of resilience in a range of complex and demanding situations
- Willingness to explore new ways of working with services and delivery and encourage staff to do so.
- Ability to manage time and conflicting demands, and prioritise workload of self and that of others accordingly.
- Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act 2010, able travel using own vehicle on Trust business.
- Able to travel between sites
Desirable criteria
- Ability to supervise clinically at an advanced level
- Clinical Supervisor Training
- Evidence of effective staff management, including management of individual and team performance
- Demonstrable experience of leading/managing a multi professional team
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Practitioner – Integrated Front Door
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced and adaptable Clinical Practitioner looking to join an innovative team? Our Integrated Front Door (IFD) team within our Dorset Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service has a unique opportunity to transform how children, young people, families, and professionals access mental health support.
As the Senior Clinical Practitioner, you will be in a pivotal role, eager to help shape our future and thrive in a dynamic, evolving environment. CYPMH Dorset is entering an exciting period of growth, with new investments enabling us to enhance our services in line with Thrive principles. This role will evolve as we develop, beginning with supporting existing teams from a temporary base during the transition. Positions are pan-Dorset, and the future service will include extended operational hours as we expand.
As the first point of clinical contact, you will offer timely assessments of need, advice and signposting, to ensure safe triage to the appropriate pathway. You will exercise advanced clinical judgment and decision-making skills, working collaboratively across care systems.
We support you to build skills, influence initiatives, and grow professionally. This is a full-time post; and would welc
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