CAMHS Practitioner PiP

Job summary

We are delighted to offer multiple opportunities for experienced CAMHS Practitioners to join our expanding Partners in Practice (PiP) Team -- an innovative service working at the interface of health and social care.

With new funding secured, we are growing our multidisciplinary team based within Hampshire Children's Services hubs. PiP practitioners provide specialist consultation, training, and evidence based interventions for children and young people open to Children's Services.

As a CAMHS Practitioner, you will use your clinical skills to deliver high quality assessments, formulation driven interventions, and reflective consultation to social care colleagues. You will work with complexity, collaborate across agencies, and contribute to a service that is shaping the future of psychologically informed practice in Hampshire.

This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians who thrive in dynamic environments and want to make a meaningful impact on outcomes for vulnerable children and families.

Main duties of the job

*The post holder will join a team of specialist CAMHS practitioners, senior CAMHS practitioners, psychology, and family and Systemic psychotherapy.

*The post holder will offer a specialist mental health perspective to the multidisciplinary team/hubs through direct therapeutic work, consultation, joint work, and participation in team meetings.

*The post holder will work closely with the Children's social care teams to provide the social worker foundation team with additional, co--located services.

*The post requires the holder to be a member of a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team to maintain a caseload and provide direct clinical work that demonstrates a high level of specialist skill in treating the client system, where children and young people have mental health difficulties. All children and young people are seen in the context of their family.

*The post holder will provide advice & clinical consultancy to teams in relation to the mental health needs of children and young people aged 5-18 residing in a range of domestic settings, including living at home, with wider family, a foster carer, or a residential home.

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: 02 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-CFS-11490
• Job locations: Cromwell House, 15 Andover Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7BT, 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.