Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS Crisis & Home Treatment

Overview

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS Crisis & Home Treatment

The closing date is 16 November 2025

Make a Real Difference When It Matters Most

Are you a dedicated mental health professional looking to take the next step in your career?

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our dynamic CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team. This is a rewarding opportunity to support children and young people facing acute mental health challenges delivering timely assessments, intensive home-based support, and working closely with families to prevent hospital admissions.

The service operates 7 days a week 8am-8pm, (shifts are 8-8).

The role is open to registered professionals (RMN / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist) with:

• Experience in CAMHS, crisis, or acute mental health services
• Strong risk assessment and safety planning skills
• The ability to work autonomously and within a team
• A flexible, compassionate, and resilient approach
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the role

What We Offer

• Ongoing CPD and professional development
• Regular supervision and a supportive MDT environment
• Opportunities for progression and service development involvement
• Staff wellbeing initiatives and flexible working
• NHS pension and benefits
• This is a part time post working 30 hours per week

Main duties of the job

• Undertake crisis assessments and risk management plans for young people presenting in acute mental health distress
• Deliver time-limited, goal-focused interventions in community and home settings
• Collaborate with families, schools, social care, and acute services to provide holistic care
• Participate in team meetings, case discussions and multi-agency forums
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to service development initiatives
• Participate in a 7 day service rota including evenings, weekends and bank holidays
• Participate in clinical, safeguarding and reflective supervision
• Work alongside clinical leads and operational leads

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Job responsibilities

• Operate as part of a multidisciplinary team providing Crisis Intervention and Intensive Home Treatment to CYP across Herefordshire.
• Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to CYP.
• Proactively engage in formal and informal education of Acute Trust staff and other partnership agencies, families and children and young people.
• Actively and creatively engage CYP and carers encouraging them to make appropriate use of the services available as part of a process of recovery and crisis management.
• Undertake full psychosocial assessments with those in need of such. Ensuring thorough, precise and timely documentation and dissemination of information in line with Trust policy and procedure.
• Undertake a acute risk assessment and safety planning for extremely vulnerable client groups during times of crisis.
• Deliver High quality, evidence-based care to a defined team caseload
• For full detail of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification Experience

• Extensive post-registration experience in mental health care including mental health assessment and risk assessment
• Use of therapeutic interventions within mental health settings i.e. 1:1, counselling, family therapy and group work
• Delivering teaching / training
• Providing consultation
• Experience of working in a CYP service or Crisis & Home Treatment service
• Formulating and communicating a clinical presentation to an MDT
• Evidence of providing a supervisor role

Qualifications

• Evidence of post-registered clinical qualifications/training or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of training to a minimum of postgraduate diploma level
• Current registration with a relevant professional body
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at the point of offer.
• Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
• Ability to travel to patients at the needs of the service across a wide geographical area in a timely manner

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.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust