Senior Mental Health Practitioner: Toddler Mental Health Hub

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	09 Mawrth 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Competitive
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	08 Ebrill 2026
Lleoliad:	Stockport, SK1 3TA
Cwmni:	inploi
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	75791782

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Senior Mental Health Practitioner: Toddler Mental Health Hub
MB4 (£45,091- £51,356)
37 hours, Full-Time
Temporary (24 months - secondment considered with employer agreement)
Central House with travel across Greater Manchester required

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 23rd March 2026
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 24th March 2026
Interview Date: 2nd April 2026
Interview Type: Face to Face

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About the project

The Greater Manchester Toddler Mental Health Hub is a two year, GMCA funded test and learn project, hosted by Stockport Council on behalf of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

The project focuses on understanding and improving the social, emotional and mental health of toddlers aged 25 years and their families. Working across all ten Greater Manchester boroughs, the Hub will collaborate closely with families and the early years workforce to scope need, test innovative and evidence based approaches, and strengthen early support for toddlers and parents.

The Hub will act as a specialist GM wide resource, providing workforce development and training focused on toddler development, attachment, and early social and emotional wellbeing. Through co production with families and practitioners, the project will contribute to the design of a sustainable Greater Manchester model for toddler and parent mental health.

The Hub will be delivered by a small, specialist team comprising the clinical and strategic lead, this post, and an assistant practitioner.

Who the role is for

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate and skilled Mental Health Practitioner with a strong commitment to improving the mental health and wellbeing of toddlers and their families, to help develop a modern and inclusive Greater Manchester Toddler and Parent Mental Health Hub.

This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of designing and delivering an innovative service model for working with toddlers aged 25 years and their parents across Greater Manchester. Working closely with the clinical and strategic lead, you will act as a senior practitioner within a small specialist team, providing clinical leadership and being supported by an assistant practitioner.

If you are passionate about toddler mental health, value evidence based and relational practice, and are motivated to support families and the wider workforce to better understand this critical and often complex stage of life, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful GM wide impact.

The Role

Working under the strategic direction of the GM Clinical and Strategic Lead, this senior practitioner role supports the development, delivery and evaluation of the two year Greater Manchester ParentToddler Mental Health Hub. The post promotes an inclusive, evidence informed approach to toddler mental health across Greater Manchester, strengthening pathways and building workforce capacity in partnership with early years services.

Key responsibilities include coordinating operational delivery; raising awareness of toddler mental health; supporting scoping, co design and model development; coordinating assessment, intervention and consultation; contributing to pathway improvement aligned to Best Start in Life; leading workforce development; and supporting evaluation, research, reporting and governance.

About You

You must hold a core professional qualification (e.g. Psychology, Health Visiting, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, qualified mental health nurse) with relevant professional registration, alongside postgraduate training in psychological therapies for children aged 05 years.

Additional training in early childhood mental health or attachment is desirable.

You will have experience of assessment, intervention and risk management with toddlers and their families, including safeguarding practice, and experience of supervision, training and service development. A strong understanding of toddler development, attachment, trauma, early relationships, evidence based approaches and early years systems is essential.

You will bring excellent communication, assessment, intervention, organisational and IT skills, with the ability to work autonomously, manage emotional complexity in clinical contexts, and give and receive clinical supervision.

About Us

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Emma Arnold, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical and strategic lead for the GM Toddler Hub on Emma.Arnold@Stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application. Please also email recruitment@stockport.gov.uk

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