Job overview
If you’re a clinician who thrives on meaningful work, rapid decision‑making, and the chance to potentially change the trajectory of a young person’s life, this is the role that will ignite your passion. Birmingham’s CAMHS Crisis & Home Treatment Team is looking for exceptional professionals who want to be part of a service that is transforming how urgent mental health care is delivered to children, young people, and their families.
This is not a traditional CAMHS post. This is frontline, relationship‑driven, high‑impact work where your clinical expertise becomes a lifeline for young people in their most vulnerable moments. You’ll be joining a dynamic, multidisciplinary team that blends clinical excellence with creativity, compassion, and a commitment to delivering care where it matters most in the home and community.
You’ll be at the heart of crisis care providing rapid assessments, safety planning, and intensive home‑based interventions that prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and keep young people safely supported in their own environments.
Main duties of the job
This role provides rapid, specialist mental health support to children and young people experiencing acute mental health crisis. As a senior clinician within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team, you will deliver urgent assessments, formulate risk and safety plans, and provide intensive home-based treatment designed to stabilise young people in their own environment and prevent unnecessary hospital admission. You will work closely with families, schools, social care, paediatrics, and inpatient services to ensure safe, coordinated care and timely discharge back into the community. You will act as a key point of contact during periods of crisis, offering skilled de-escalation, brief therapeutic interventions, and confident clinical decision-making. As part of a robust multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to case formulation, crisis planning, medication monitoring, and high-quality documentation. This role requires resilience, autonomy, and a commitment to delivering compassionate, trauma-informed care to young people and their families during their most vulnerable moments
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Values
Essential
- Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
- Deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible Be the best you can be, always look for ways to improve and develop to reach your potential
- Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
- Joint working with others, e.g. patients, colleagues in the delivery of high quality healthcare
- Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive
Experience
Essential
- Delivering and /or facilitating evidence based interventions to a wide range of service users and carers;
- Experience delivering community‑based or home‑treatment interventions.
- Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience supporting safe discharge planning and coordinating care across services
- Experience working within CAMHS or a mental health crisis service, ideally with children and young people.
- Therapeutic interventions
Desirable
- Strong understanding of child and adolescent development, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and family dynamics.
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC or HCPC registered professional
Desirable
- Relevant Post qualifying qualification e.g. or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of training
- Specific qualification in a relevant therapeutic speciality e.g. counselling, Family Therapy, CBT, substance misuse
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of common CAMHS crisis presentations, including self‑harm, suicidal ideation, behavioural dysregulation, and eating disorders.
- Understanding of equality, diversity, cultural competence, and trauma‑informed practice.
- Skilled in de‑escalation, crisis management, and delivering brief, evidence‑based interventions in high‑pressure situations.
- Ability to complete rapid, holistic mental health and risk assessments for children and young people in acute crisis.
Desirable
- Strong understanding of child and adolescent development, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and family dynamics.
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This advert is for Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS CRHTT with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Jul 2026.
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