Mental Health Practitioner in Camden Town

Single Homeless Project has an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our team based in Lewisham, London. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis. In return, you will receive a competitive salary starting at £32,034.46 rising incrementally to £35,081.51 per annum. We’re London’s leading homelessness charity – and we get things done. In a city where hundreds are forced into homelessness every day, our work has never been more needed or more challenging.

We prevent homelessness, provide safe places to live and give people the opportunity to rebuild their lives and transform their futures. We start with trust, building relationships that help people feel safe, supported, and ready to move forward. Every day, we put people first in everything we do, challenging injustice and barriers that keep people from the safety, stability and opportunity they deserve.

About the Mental Health Practitioner role: Too many young people are left waiting, repeating their story, or trying to navigate mental health systems that were never built with their lives in mind. In this role, you’ll help change that. As Mental Health Practitioner, you’ll help young people in Camden Young Person’s High Support Accommodation Service build trust, understand their options and access the health and mental health support they need to move towards safety, wellbeing and independence.

You’ll hold a focused caseload of young people with higher mental health and wellbeing needs, carrying out screenings, building clear health profiles, supporting referrals and helping young people engage with appointments, treatment and care planning. You’ll work alongside young people at their pace, recognising that confidence, choice and trust are often built through patience, consistency and strong relationships.

You’ll also support colleagues to feel more confident when responding to mental health need, distress, crisis, risk or barriers to engagement. Working closely with CAMHS, adult mental health services, primary care, substance use services and other health partners, you’ll help create a more joined‑up response so young people are not passed between systems, but actively supported to access the care they deserve.

At SHP, you’ll be part of a learning culture that values development, training and career growth — with space to deepen your practice, share your expertise and keep growing while making a real difference.

About you: You understand how trauma, instability, care experience or homelessness can shape a young person’s mental health, trust and engagement with services. You know how to build relationships with young people who may feel let down, unheard or unsure about accepting support. You can support young people through distress, crisis or difficult choices about their care with calm, compassion and clear boundaries.

You are confident working with health and mental health partners, including CAMHS, adult mental health, primary care or substance use services. You can guide colleagues thoughtfully, record clearly and use learning, feedback and outcomes to strengthen support for young people.

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• Salary increase after successfully completing six month’s probationary period
• 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non‑accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays)
• Contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discount scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed (by SHP) for the successful applicant. Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.