CYPMHS Practitioner in Saint Albans

CYPMHS West Hertfordshire is seeking to recruit a highly skilled and motivated CYP Practitioner with an appropriate professional qualification and relevant experience to join our multi-disciplinary team. This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week) offered on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality care, making a significant contribution to the clinical and nursing input within the team.

Responsibilities will include:

• Active participation in the referral and allocation process.
• Undertaking assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions.
• Risk management, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, and care coordination.
• Contributing to case discussions and wider service meetings.
• Providing consultation and supervision to colleagues, students, and professionals within partner services.

Main duties of the job:

• To develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
• To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic based and outreach models.
• To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Care coordinate a caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
• To actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills.
• To chair/attend MDTs for all teams providing clinical sign off.
• To work collaboratively and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies.
• To take a leading role for service innovation and development, including projects with other junior staff.

About us:

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

• Welcoming
• Kind
• Positive
• Respectful
• Professional

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Details:

• Date posted: 31 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £51,657 to £58,785 a year per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS included)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 367-SS-101490
• Job locations: 99 Waverley Road, St Albans, AL3 5TL, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities:

• To clinically and/or professionally supervise junior staff and trainees within the team as appropriate.
• To lead and contribute to reading and clinical seminars, participate in the training/education of both clinic team members and trainees placed at the clinic.
• To act as a positive role model for other colleagues and seek advice from Senior Clinicians/Managers as appropriate.
• To take part in clinical and managerial supervision, managing own caseload within agreed parameters and levels.
• To ensure regular supervision of own casework by clinical supervisor.
• To be responsible for identifying one's own needs for professional development, discussing and planning this with the supervisor.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• Any Professional and Accredited Qualification of Nurse, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologists, Child and Psychotherapists and/or Systemic Psychotherapists.
• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Willingness to complete further training and qualification identified as appropriate to the role.
• Communications skills / Leadership training.

Experience:

• Extensive experience of working with CYPMHS.
• Leadership skills.
• Range of work procedures and practices; base level of theoretical knowledge.
• Knowledge and experience to deal with non-routine issues such as problem solving for an area of work or developing alternative or additional procedure.
• Knowledge of specialist functional / medical/legal terms, organisational policies and procedures.
• Experience in a mental health environment or NHS.

Skills:

• Experience in working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience liaising with external agencies and report writing.
• Aware of mental health problems affecting children and young people.
• Experience and understanding of neurodevelopment difficulties, including Autism spectrum disorder and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Aware of child protection policies and procedures.
• Able to provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills, considering barriers to understanding.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.