Senior Practitioner.
| Posting date: | 26 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: | 10 October 2025 |
| Location: | Castleford, WF105HW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9378-W1360 |
Summary
JOB SUMMARY The post holder will work as part of the Kirklees Mental Health Support Team (MHST) to manage a defined case- load with a focus on providing comprehensive assessment, consultation and evidence-based interventions, for children and young people (CYP) with mental health difficulties and their parents/carers. This post will involve supporting Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP)s with developing their clinical practice, psychological formulation and school engagement. The post holder will be expected to provide Case Management and Clinical Skills Supervision to a number of trainee/EMHPs within the service (training may be provided). The post holder will be able to work flexibly across a range of education providers, be a keen contributer to joint working initiatives and adaptive to change in a ever-growing service. Kirklees MHSTs are delivered through a partnership involving CAMHS (South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust) as the lead provider, Educational Psychology services (Kirklees Council) and Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust as wrap around services. KEY RESULT AREAS: The postholder will: 1.1 Care/service/function provision: Work in partnership to deliver a range of evidence-based mental health interventions with children and young people (CYP) as well as some parent-led interventions. Facilitate evidence-based group interventions with CYP and/or parents. Offer specialist mental health-based consultation, advice and guidance with professionals. Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated. Support clinical staff to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs aswell as psychological formulation. Promote overall access to Kirklees MHST where appropriate. Establish therapeutic relationships with children, young people and their families and implement evidence based therapeutic interventions. Plan and organise interventions ensuring that reviews are held within the required time frames. Ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team, their colleagues, service users and appropriate others are informed/updated of changes involving current care plans, progress, mental state, and psychosocial factors in line with best practice. Liaise with and advise CYP and families, local authority and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies including childrens safeguarding as necessary. Communicate sensitive information to carers and relatives. Use a range of inclusive communication styles and channels as appropriate to the task. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or patients in treatment, where appropriate. Care plan and manage own caseload Maintain accurate written records on the electronic record system of the Trust Undertake mental health assessments, with an agreed plan of action and/or care and low moderate intervention. Set and monitor Goal Based Outcomes with CYP/parents. Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options. Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and routine outcome measures. 1.2 Working as part of a Team: Contribute to gathering feedback for service development Share clinical skills and knowledge and support the development of others As part of a team, deliver person centred care whilst meeting the service standards and objectives. Provide and receive service user information using tact, reassurance, empathy and persuasive skills as required. Act within the 8 principles of the Data Protection Act 1988. Contribute to department/team meetings offering suggestions for quality improvement. Actively engage in good team working to facilitate effective relationships with all health professionals. Maintain strong working relationships and communication links with the team and others in achieving/improving service/quality standards. Contribute to and make suggestions about projects, including audit and quality initiatives pertinent to the role. Take part in team reflection and investigation of complaints and Adverse Risk Incidents as directed to ensure that lessons are learned from mistakes and that team working is enhanced. Comply with corporate governance structures in keeping with the principles and standards set out by the Trust. Engage with external partners/stake holders (e.g. service users, health care professionals, representative bodies) For further information, please see attached documentation.