# CAMHS - Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camhs-mental-health-practitioner/11ec4234-af8a-425d-80d0-e68039ee5e23 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/camhs-mental-health-practitioner/11ec4234-af8a-425d-80d0-e68039ee5e23.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** The Meadows - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health practitioner - **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:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T07:06:08.877Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Bury/Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/CAMHS/CAMHS-v8351362 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8351362?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate as we are about high quality care. The successful candidate will need the ability to work autonomously within the context of a multi-disciplinary team approach & undertake specific work with young people and their families. Excellent assessment skills & the ability to formulate clinical decisions and management plans are essential, including assessment and management of risk. There are roles within Bury CAMHS for case manager full time and a part time assessment and triage role. Both roles involve assessing & formulating treatment plans for young people, risk management and signposting. You will strive to achieve the best for every young person, show commitment to delivering evidence based practice and have the capability of making clinical decisions around complex and emotive issues, supported by knowledge of relevant legislation and safeguarding in relation to the client group. You will monitor and evaluate treatment offered to service users adhering to professional & Trust guidelines and using routine outcome measures related to service development and reporting. You must be an excellent communicator, flexible, self motivated and have a willingness to build links with colleagues across team and agencies. ### Main duties of the job This is a busy multi-disciplinary CAMHS team which includes nurses, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. You will have the benefit of being co-located with partner services for children and families. A key focus of the service leadership team will be implementing transformation that ensures timely access to high quality care. Our vision is for our local community to be well equipped to support the young people of Bury to grow up with good emotional health and wellbeing. We work closely with our partners in education, children’s services and the 3rd sector to achieve the recently developed ambitious Local Transformation Plan for CAMHS services. This plan provides us with the guide and resources to begin delivering our vision of having CAMHS workers available in new ways, and working closely with children’s universal and targeted services in each of our locality areas. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted. Please note, this role is within the teams initial assessment team and therefore confidence and skills within assessment and formulating treatment plans is essential. ### 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of mental health issues in young people - Knowledge of relevant legislation and National policies in relation to young people - Knowledge of therapeutic interventions with young people **Desirable** - Understanding of Youth Offending services. - Knowledge of drug and alcohol issues relating to young people ### Experience **Essential** - Professional involvement with the users of mental health services. - Experience of case management of young people - Experience of multi-agency working **Desirable** - Experience of relating to young people in a group or community setting. ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Ability to undertake appropriate mental health assessments - Ability to carry out therapeutic interventions with this client group - Ability to work well with a team - Ability to manage a caseload effectively - Ability to work independently - Ability to work creatively and flexibly in a clinical context ### Education / Qualifications **Essential** - NMC nursing, social work, and has active registration with relevant regulatory body (NMC, SWE ) - Significant post qualification experience in community mental health services to post graduate diploma level **Desirable** - RMN or Social Work Pin ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 134.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10676763) - [person specification (pdf, 129.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10676764) - [policy statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 117.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=440) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.