Specialist Mental Health Therapist
| Posting date: | 29 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £50,008.00 to £56,908.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50008.00 - £56908.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2026 |
| Location: | Aldershot/Epsom, GU11 1AY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9325-26-0249 |
Summary
To provide specialist assessments and mental health interventions working in partnership at all times with children, young people and their families and carers. To provide consultation, training and advice to professionals and external stakeholders working with children and young people in these vulnerable groups. To be able to overcome a variety of barriers to communication when working with children, young people and families/carers who may be very traumatised, anxious, vulnerable and have difficulty articulating their problems, requiring imaginative and sensitive approaches towards engagement. To promote early intervention and active engagement amongst the network, being an ambassador for mental well-being and providing expertise in emotional and mental health across the system in order to effect better outcomes for children and young people. To be responsible for managing and prioritising own workload of children and adolescents with emotional well-being issues and more complex emerging mental health issues often involving additional difficulties, such as self-harming, depression, trauma and attachment issues. To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information. To use age appropriate and sensitive language when sharing assessment and treatment plans with young people being mindful where the information may be unwelcome. To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for professional practice. To consider and assess all safeguarding concerns and to act on these in accordance with national and local safeguarding procedures. To be committed to non-discriminatory practice, recognise and respect the protected characteristics of children, young people and families/carers. To be aware and mindful of the needs of children and young people from a wide range of racial, religious, cultural, social backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability and SEND.