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Job requirements
Essential
13 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Professional degree or equivalent qualification in nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or other relevant profession with related CAMHS experience.
- Qualifications
Applicants must hold current registration with the relevant professional regulator, such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Social Work England or the Health and Care Professions Council. Applicants from a psychotherapy profession must hold appropriate registration with an accredited professional register.
- Additional Criteria
Skills in being able to communication effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and or clinically sensitive information to clients their families and or clinically sensitive information to clients their families or carers and other professionals colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Additional Criteria
Willingness to develop skills in complex mental health assessment through training and supervision
- Additional Criteria
Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across a range of agencies
- Additional Criteria
Ability to provide a therapeutic environment which contributes to children's healthy development
- Additional Criteria
Highly dependable and able to meet deadlines
- Additional Criteria
Ability to work as part of a close-knit team
- Additional Criteria
Proactive and motivated, with the ability to organise a varied workload
- Additional Criteria
Being flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities
- Additional Criteria
Interest and ability to contribute to service development
- Additional Criteria
Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Educational Structures, National policies and frameworks
- Additional Criteria
A knowledge of and commitment to Equal opportunities and promoting diversity
Desirable
13 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Previous experience of specialist mental health assessment or treatment of children and young people and their families or carers within a multidisciplinary team in a community, primary care, outpatient or inpatient setting
- Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of children, adolescents and their families/carers across the whole range and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience
Post qualifying experience of working as a specialistmental health working within a mental health setting
- Experience
Experience of teaching and or training other professionals
- Qualifications
Completion of further post-qualification specialist training at post-graduate level
- Additional Criteria
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Additional Criteria
Skills in delivering training to other professional and non-professional groups
- Additional Criteria
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
- Additional Criteria
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the relevant professional body
- Additional Criteria
Car driver to enable delivery of service in community settings
- Additional Criteria
Good knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term child and adolescent mental health, development and psychiatry and its application to a specialist area
- Additional Criteria
Advanced knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies
- Additional Criteria
Good level of specialist CAMHS knowledge which is evidence based
Job summary
An exciting development opportunity for a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner has arisen within the Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CCAMHS) on the Isle of Wight. This is a development role with progression to a band 6 (subject to the successful completion of required competencies to a satisfactory trust standard).
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate individual to join our CAMHS Team, you will be joining a strong and supportive group of professionals. You will play a crucial role in providing and being responsible for ensuring the provision of safe services for all people using the Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
The role involves multi-disciplinary working and bespoke packages of care that are evidence informed and following NICE guidelines standards. The post holder will carry out comprehensive assessments and interventions supported by the team within Tier 3 CCAMHS and hold their own caseload.
The post holder will be expected to work in line with the Trust values and behave in a manner that facilitates the development of autonomous teams and individuals that are empowered, engaged and committed to continually delivering excellent care with compassion.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work under supervision of senior colleagues to develop skills to become an autonomous and accountable practitioner within our integrated teams. This will involve the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care provided and effective liaison with all agencies involved with the service user.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
- Date posted: 14 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 5
- Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 348-CFS-12803
- Job locations: Newport Clinic, 7 Pyle Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1JW, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Mental health practitioner role. The advertised salary is £32073.00 to £39043.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Oct 2026.
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