# Band 6 CAMHS Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Bishop Wilson Clinic, 1st Floor
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-27T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T14:51:00.103Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Solihull/Birmingham_Solihull_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nurse_OT_Social_Worker/Nurse_OT_Social_Worker-v8170964
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8170964?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

- The post holder will provide high quality assessment for patients referred into Solar, providing a role in risk assessment and management, formulation of need, information gathering, and offering advice and guidance to children and young people directly and those who support them (parents/carers, family and professional support networks e.g school nurses, teachers, social workers)

The post holder will manage a defined caseload and offer 1:1 therapeutic intervention within the service

The post holder will work with partner agencies (statutory and third sector) to ensure a co-ordinated approach is had to manage the care of children and young people in Solihull.

The post holder will ensure the most relevant care pathway and care plan is devised and where needed provide seamless transition into other Solar teams and practitioners

The post holder will contribute to a reduction in avoidable presentations to A&E departments

### Main duties of the job

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To work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with moderate to severe mental health/emotional difficulties. This will include the provision of highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion and ensuring coproduction with service users, families and carers and the education staff. Responsible for the appropriate clinical risk assessment of service users, providing an effective advice, guidance and decision making process culminating in the coordination of any reviewed plan of care in line with the Care Programmed Approach.

Responsible for the admission, case conference/reviews and discharge in collaboration with members of the multi-disciplinary team.

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Responsible for participating in the development of the service, setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.

Responsible for the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision.

Responsible for establishing therapeutic relationships with service users, and the implementation of evidence based therapeutic interventions

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and requirements

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Essential

**Essential**

- Professional Qualification (Nurse, OT, Social Worker
- Evidence of Professional Registration relevant to the post
- Significant Post Qualification Experience in Mental Health

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in a community setting
- Experience of working in CAMHS
- delivery of evidence-based therapeutic interventions e.g CBT, DBT

## Documents

- [applicant guide (pdf, 313.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1260)
- [job description (pdf, 864.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10473142)
- [equality statement (pdf, 572.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2416)
- [person specification (pdf, 464.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10473143)
- [everyday behaviours guide (pdf, 159.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2415)
- [information for applicants (pdf, 431.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1709)

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