Senior Mental Health Practitioner (With CBT Training Opportunity)
| Posting date: | 16 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 September 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, EX2 7FW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9369-25-0473 |
Summary
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification. The post holder will undertake academic and clinical practice training in evidence based psychological therapies and is required to attend, complete and pass all elements of the allocated CYP-IAPT training. The post holder will deliver high quality comprehensive mental health services. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on providing expert assessment, formulation and evidence-based treatment for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties and their parents/carers in line with NICE guidance. Collaborative working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is central to this role. The post holder will contribute to the multi-disciplinary approach of the team, providing integrated healthcare for children across Children and Family Health Devon. Bringing professional expertise, skills and knowledge to multi-disciplinary team work, the post holder will work with, and offer supervision/consultation/advice to others. With a focus on providing high quality, safe and compassionate care to children/young people the post holder will engage in team and service development including participating in audit, evaluation and review. Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here ) Successful applicants will also be enrolled on the HEE funded CYP IAPT Training course, CBT Modality at Exeter University. https://swcypiapt.com/courses/cyp-iapt-courses/ As these are training positions initially, please be aware that you must both gain employment in an CFHD SMHP Recruit to Train role and be accepted onto the University Course. You will be interviewed for both in one interview on the date listed. If you are ineligible for the University Course, we will be unable to be offer the role. If you withdraw from an employment offer but you have accepted a university offer, you will be unable to join the course. Please note for this role, the training course is not optional; the roles are dependent on meeting all course requirements. Applicants for this training will need to be available to start by January 2025 when the course starts. If you apply to this job, you are giving permission that information relevant to establishing eligibility can be shared between the CYP IAPT programme at Exeter University and CFHD. No irrelevant information will be disclosed or discussed.