CAMHS Practitioner - development opportunity

Band 5/6

Main area Mental Health – Child and Adolescent Grade Band 5/6 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term 12 months) Hours Part time – 30 hours per week Job ref 310-CYPF-7107987-B

Site Newtown Centre Town Huntingdon Salary £29,970 – £44,962 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/07/2025 23:59

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit enthusiastic and creative CAMHS Practitioners to join our Core CAMHS Team. This post is available as a B6 to experienced practitioners or a B5 to someone newly qualified or completing their training.

We are a multi-disciplinary team offering a diverse range of professional approaches, including Family Therapy, Nursing, Occupational therapy. Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Social work, and Mental health Practitioners. We work with young people with who are experiencing moderate to severe emotional, behavioural, or mental health difficulties. As a team we believe that service user participation and feedback is an integral part of the development and delivery of services and supports care which is person centred and inclusive.

You will have a strong team work ethic, the ability to work autonomously, hold personal accountability and work well under pressure. You will have access to regular individual and group clinical supervision, CPD opportunities within and outside of the service, and the support of a robust and supportive multidisciplinary team. You will also be required to support the team to ensure the smooth running and organisation of the service, contributing towards research, evaluation, and service development, to ensure care is responsive, effective, and equitable.

Main duties of the job

As a CAMHS practitioner, you will be mainly working within a clinical setting in our out-patient clinic although in order meet the needs of our children and young people you may also be required to provide support within other environments such as home, education or community settings.

Your role will be to deliver excellent quality care which empowers children and young people, supports them in their recovery journey and enables them to contribute towards the development of services and care planning. You will work as an integral member for the CAMHS locality team, providing assessments, interventions and care coordination to children, young people, families, and carers. You will have a positive approach to the delivery of care which values working creatively and flexibly in partnership with service users, their networks and the wider professional networks.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team who is striving to make a difference for the children, young people, and families we support, then we would love to hear from you, and for you to be part of our friendly and supportive team. In return we will provide the necessary support and guidance to ensure your development within your role.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To work as an integral member of the CAMHS Community Team, providing mental health assessments and formulations, through information gathering and analysis, including the use of routine outcome measures and within bio-psychosocial models of mental health.
• To utilise specialist knowledge and evidence-based models of mental health to make decisions about a child or young person’s mental health needs.
• To participate in the prevention and early detection of emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents referred to the service.
• To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based interventions for individuals and groups to children, young people, families and carers.
• To evaluate and care plan in collaboration with the CAMHS Community Team, and wider CAMHS services, and considering individual, contextual and social factors.
• To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice and care planning.
• To utilise individual, group and peer supervision to support assessments, care planning and decision making.
• To participate in the team’s use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS.
• To involve children and young people and family/carers, and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to their assessments and care planning.
• To involve children, young people and families/carers in the development of service provision through co-production, participation and service user evaluation.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RNMH), LD Nurse, Social work or Occupational therapist with relevant professional registration.
• Evidence of continued training and professional development

Experience

• Completion of nurse training programme or equivalent.
• Experience of managing workload and ability to prioritise.
• Experience of care coordination
• Experience of working with individuals, families and multi – disciplinary teams.
• Lived experience of mental health.

Skills & Abilities

• Able to communicate well with a variety of people
• Skills with working with others within a multi-disciplinary team and under supervision
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions and ask for advice appropriately
• Experience with working with children and young people service users, their families and their carers
• Knowledge of contemporary policy and legislation relating to mental health and social care.
• Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of effective clinical practice.
• Demonstrate a knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Other

• Ability to travel between various locations

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity .

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Erica Blott Job title CAMHS Clinical Specialist Email address Erica.Blott@cpft.nhs.uk Additional information

If you would like to meet and discuss the role informally please contact me by email.

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