Salary: £30,000 – £32,000 per year
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (part time also considered)
Location: Swindon
Closing Date: 16th of July 2026
Please quote job reference: ABL 905
Role Purpose:
You will support a team to deliver Person Centred interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties to support them to improve their emotional health and build resilience. This will include (F2F & virtual) individual, group work and peer support.
This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service/ Service Lead at Be U Swindon. Managerial and clinical supervision will be provided. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you will work as part of a diverse clinical team pro-actively developing the service through co-production, delivery, and ongoing innovation.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will provide clinical leadership and day-to-day support to the wider team, ensuring children and young people (CYP) receive safe, effective and person-centred care. You will triage referrals, carry out comprehensive assessments using a holistic, child-centred approach, and deliver one-to-one and group-based therapeutic interventions tailored to individual needs. The role involves assessing and managing risk, developing safety plans, providing safeguarding support for young people presenting with self-harm or suicidal ideation, and making appropriate referrals or signposting to local services. You will build strong relationships with partner agencies, maintain accurate and confidential clinical records, contribute to clinical audits and quality assurance activities, deliver professional training, and support peer-led initiatives for young people. Working closely with families, professionals and colleagues, you will communicate with empathy and compassion, ensuring children and young people feel listened to, respected and actively involved in decisions about their care, while also providing guidance and support to parents and carers where required.
Skills & Competencies required:
- An experienced and qualified mental health practitioner used to a fast-paced environment. (See person specification)
- Experienced in working with children and young people across early intervention / mental health settings and experienced in engaging the whole family.
- Confident in supporting / offering interventions to children and young people presenting mild to moderate risk behaviours.
- Able to build strong therapeutic relationships in a short period of time.
- Positive and proactive to achieve the highest standards and outcomes in engagement with children, young people, their parent/carers and professionals.
- Adept in communication and confident communicating with CYP (Children and Young Peoples), their parents/carers and health professionals.
- Open, respectful, committed to equality and inclusiveness and motivated by new ideas and perspectives.
- A team player.
- Be able to work independently using initiative and problem-solving skills to ensure best outcomes for CYP.
- Be able to manage own diary effectively.
Employee Benefits:
Birthday Day off
Flexible Annual Leave scheme
Employee Referral scheme
37.5 hours working week
Flu jabs
Blue Light Card
Cycle to work scheme
Leadership and staff away days
Training and Development
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
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