Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Nurse, OT, Social Worker, CWP or EMHP with CAMHS experience?

Are you ready to take your next step into a leadership role?

Would you like to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Low Intensity Supervision Training (LIST)?

If yes, then this may be the right job for you and we are really keen to meet you.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Mental Health Support Team (MHST). We work across the city of Birmingham and Solihull to support young people and their families who may be facing mental and emotional health issues. Having gained further funding to expand the team, we are looking to recruit 2 Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join the leadership team. Our new team is launching in October 2026.

Candidates will be working across a set number of education settings delivering evidence-based early interventions, and Whole Setting Approach initiatives (WSA). Candidates will work within a clinical team to ensure mild to moderate mental health and emotion wellbeing support is provided.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will offer clinical expertise and advice to staff, including undertaking assessments and interventions  for young people who may benefit from support from a more experienced clinician.

You will also line manage junior clinical staff, supporting and developing the team to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

You will need to ensure you are registered with the relevant professional body prior to applying.

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Support Team is an early intervention service, working with children, young people, and their families with mild to moderate mental health needs within Birmingham and Solihull.

The team is comprised of a range of different clinicians, all working together to support young people as early as possible, to prevent their needs escalating and having a long term impact on their wellbeing.

We have 3 core functions:

• To deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues.
• Support the senior mental health lead in each school or college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach and,
• Give timely advice to school and college staff and liaise with external specialist service to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.

A typical clinical day may involve  delivering assemblies and workshops to a primary and secondary schools and further education settings. You may then travel to health centers, homes or education settings to deliver some one-to-one or a group session of low intensity CBT intervention. You may then facilitate supervision, plan/create resources and help lead team meetings. Travel across the Birmingham and Solihull area is expected. Throughout the day there will be good access to support and connection from your colleagues.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

Travel across Birmingham will occur on a daily basis, but we will try and allocate you to schools close to one another where we can to reduce your travel time.

We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.