The closing date is 28th Jun 2026
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Job summary
The New Forest Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team are seeking a Senior Mental health Practitioner to join the already well established and supportive team. You will be a highly motivated and experienced practitioner with leadership skills and a passion for working with young people and their families.
The team is committed to providing children and young people with the best evidence-cased care to support them to improve their mental health and progress with hope for the future. We are made up of a multi-disciplinary team of innovative and dynamic practitioner who work hard to find new ways of providing clinical care to effectively work with the young people in the New Forest. We are driven to deliver high quality assessments and interventions that keep the young person and their families at the heart of what we do. Hampshire CAMHS has established care pathways which you will work across including supporting neurodevelopmental assessment and both individual and group work.
We have support structures for Social workers, AHP's and Nurses and there is robust and supportive clinical, management and professional supervision including clear governance processes to support staff to practice safely and effectively. We are supportive of clinicians professional development and provide training opportunities to enhance clinical practice and career development.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
You will work in partnership with children, young people (CYP) and their families to deliver high quality assessments and evidence based interventions for those presenting with complex mental health needs. Using your specialist skills, you will complete initial assessments, contribute to duty system responsibilities, develop collaborative care plans, and deliver both one to one and group interventions. You will also support neurodevelopmental assessments and contribute to the ongoing development of the team and wider service, including supervising and mentoring colleagues and students.
You will demonstrate a strong understanding of clinical interventions relevant to CYP and work closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate these effectively. At all times, you will promote the safety, wellbeing and recovery of CYP and their families.
The role involves supporting young people across a broad range of clinical pathways and working closely with clinicians from services including the Single Point of Access, Early Help, Urgent Assessment and Home Treatment (i2i), Eating Disorders, and others to ensure coordinated and high quality care.
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About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
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Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body (NMC, HCPC, Social Work England).
Or
- Evidence of having achieved and completed the Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSA) KSA portfolio route to BABCP Accreditation with current accreditation of the BABCP).
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Degree / diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to master's level equivalent relevant to the care group.
- Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area.
- Completion of Mentorship Course / Practice Supervisor Course.
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Experience
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Essential
- Extensive post qualifying experience in relevant service area.
- Experience of supervising staff and students.
- Able to manage a caseload of children and young people with complex mental health needs.
- Comprehensive knowledge of interventions specific to service area.
- Awareness of Trust policies and service specification.
Communication / Relationship skills:
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with staff, patients, families, carers, and professionals.
- Able to establish links with other services and professionals.
Analytical & Judgement skills:
- Able to effectively manage risk.
- To have a good knowledge of service objectives
- To understand performance reports and how they relate to team.
Planning & Organisational skills:
- Able to manage and delegate tasks.
- Participate in service development.
- Able to lead clinical discussions in team.
- Able to undertake audit activity.
- Able to plan staff rotas as needed.
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Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health issues
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Georgia Marks
[email protected]
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 7
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Salary
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£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Full-Time
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Reference number
348-CFS-11549
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Job locations
Ashurst Child and Family Centre
Lyndhurst Road, Ashurst
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 7AR
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Totton Health Centre
Testwood Lane, Totton
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 3ZN
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Attachments
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Job Description
Job Description - Band 7 - Senior Mental Health Practitioner (MHP).pdf – 332KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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