Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a motivated Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner to work full-time in the South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team. You will manage your own caseload, including risk assessment and management of complex mental health needs in children and young people. The role involves providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions and working collaboratively with families and partner agencies. The team offers a supportive environment with opportunities for skill development and innovative practice.
Key responsibilities
- To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
- To work with and support the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.
- To contribute to the rota/duty system providing telephone support and advice to young people, carers and professionals who are open to South Gloucestershire CAMHS.
- To carry out assessments of a child or young persons mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.
- To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
- To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
- Maintenance of appropriate professional registration (ie HCPC, UKCP, NMC)
- Experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents
- Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people. Including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
- Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines
- Theoretical and practical knowledge in the specialism including knowledge of child and adolescent development and mental health. Ability to use this.
- Able to work collaboratively with partner agencies and maintain good working relationships.
- Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds
Desirable criteria
- Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.
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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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for motivated clinician to work 5 days (37.5 hours per week) in South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team, based in Kingswood and Patchway Hubs. This role has become available as the current post holder has secured internal promotion.
You will be appropriately qualified (Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Family Therapist, Accredited CBT therapist) and have appropriate professional registration. You will need to demonstrate that you have experience of holding your own caseload including risk assessment and management of complex and enduring mental health needs. Preferably from working within a community CAMHS service but may also include significant experience within other similar services such as adult mental health.
We are a supportive, experiencedand progressive multi-disciplinaryteam. We offer individual, family and group interventions. You will have the opportunity to develop skills assessing children, young people and families and ensuring they receive evidence based and effective interventions in a timely manner.
South Gloucestershire CAMHS has radically transformed in recent years including broad team skill mix and opportunities for staff development and innovative
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