Mental Health Practitioner
| Posting date: | 16 January 2026 |
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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: | 30 January 2026 |
| Location: | Huddersfield, HD1 3LT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9378-CK2392 |
Summary
JOB SUMMARY This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments. The post holder will provide an emergency assessment and intensive treatment and outreach response to children and young people with mental health needs. To provide a timely access to specialist services for children and young people that present in crisis or who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and /or others, and outreach to those that are difficult to engage, providing intensive support where required to meet identified need contributing to the prevention of admission to residential provision and also the facilitation of timely discharge from residential provision. To look after and ensure the safe keeping of equipment and materials used by self in the execution of this post. To promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people. KEY RESULT AREAS: 1To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system and being party to the development of the Emergency Assessment, Intensive Treatment Response and Outreach element of the Specialist CAMHS portfolio in line with the service specification implementation plans and commissioner investment. 2To provide specialist assessment, intensive interventions, time limited therapy to children, young people with the most severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of settings to address need. 3To provide an immediate specialist assessment response to children and young people in crisis and those who present a significant and immediate risk to themselves and /or others and the development of an associated care plan 4To be responsible for managing a caseload ensuring robust assessment, care planning, interventions and therapy, onward referral and through-care as appropriate. Caseload Management. 5To support and be involved in, as required the, transportation of service users to identified areas of care. 6To participate in the development, audit and review of this extension to existing service provision. 7To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow specialist CAMHS practitioners. 8To work collaboratively with Universal Services and Residential CAMHS providers to provide coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and targeted groups. 9To use a range of Information Technology systems ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially. 10To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical incidents are reported. 11To comply with both clinical and corporate governance frameworks. 12To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous improvement and learning. 13To apply a sound knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work. 14To support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service improvement and redesign. 15To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework. 16To provide consultation and supervision to other service providers and partner agencies as required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and families. 17To identify and communicate any concerns through relevant management processes. For full job description, please see attached supporting documents. We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.