Mental Health Practitioner

Posting date:	16 December 2025
Salary:	£46,178 per year
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	14 January 2026
Location:	Shrewsbury, SY1 1AF
Company:	The Cambian Group
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	22419

Summary

Therapist – Complex Trauma Service (CTS)

Location: Shrewsbury/Tamworth area

Salary: up to £46,178 doe

Permanent – Full Time, 40 hours (p/t may be considered)

Reports to: Clinical Director and the person nominated by them to be your line manager/supervisor

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a growing clinical team as a Therapist supporting children and young people living in our complex trauma homes. The Complex Trauma Service is part of the Cambian Group; the UK’s largest provider of specialist services in children’s residential care, education, mental health and learning disability services. The post will require someone with previous experience of working as a qualified therapist with children and young people in a CAMHS or related setting and specifically within Looked After Children’s services.

We offer excellent training and career progression opportunities as well as a variety of staff benefits.

Job Role

You will be providing a trauma informed therapeutic service for children and young people through staff training, consultation, individual assessment and direct therapy. The therapist will support staff to build positive and healthy relationships with young people to enable them to grow, develop and achieve their full potential through the use of a range of therapeutic approaches such as DDP, PACE, Therapeutic Parenting etc.

This role will require you to work holistically to help staff develop the children and young people’s wellbeing, independence and social and emotional resiliency, as part of the consultative model and with a multi-disciplinary approach with other professionals involved. You will also be expected to provide individual therapy utilising trauma informed evidence-based approaches.

Further duties are described in the attached Job Description.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, forward thinking Therapist to join our friendly team.

Essential:

A child centered individual who is passionate about enabling children and young people to achieve positive outcomes
Experience of working with children and young people as a qualified therapist
Registered with the relevant professional organisation e.g BACP, HCPC
Be a strong team player, with excellent communication skills
Have excellent communication, organisational and time management skills
Experience of working within CAMHS or other relevant setting

Experience of working with Looked After Children ideally within residential services