SPA Mental Health Triage Clinician
| Posting date: | 26 November 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: | 09 December 2025 |
| Location: | Maidstone Kent, ME14 5NZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9395-25-1134 |
Summary
The Single Point of Access operates between 08:00 and 18:00 Monday-Friday The Single Point of Access is based in Maidstone, easily accessible by car and offers a range of facilities including a restaurant and ample safe parking. We value team involvement in service improvement and your professional development. The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or will have substantial CAMHS clinical experience and be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC). They will have extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. In addition, they will need to evidence that they are able to provide children, young people and their families with information and psychoeducation thereby ensuring they have meaningful choices regarding interventions. They will need to demonstrate that they have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing care. The SPA receives, screens and directs referrals from across Kent and Medway Then provides advice, information, consultation and support to all referrers and a range of other local services. The SPA works closely with the CYPMHS locality teams and aims to respond earlier to children and young peoples needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. The service is driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies); evidence-based interventions, routine measurement of outcomes, access to high quality training and supervision for professionals and true co-production with children and young people. Care pathway leads and practitioners ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all children and young people who need it. This means establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with the SPA, wider social, health and voluntary services. The Single Point of Access receives referrals for children and young people, with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, but has since expanded to include referrals for ADHD, ASC and Learning Disability. The referrals we receive are for a broad range of challenges, and the post holder will be able to develop knowledge and skills in the areas of mental health, neurodevelopment and crisis response.