# Mental Health Practitioner in Core CAMHS Team - (RMN/OT/Social worker)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Severn Fields Health Village (Hub)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (monday - friday)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-11T07:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28T09:21:01.240Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Shrewsbury/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8221474
- **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin CAMHS services are heading into a new chapter, with a range of exciting job opportunities available. If you are a registered mental health nurse, social worker or occupational therapist with an interest and passion for supporting young people and families, we would love to hear from you!

As a specialist mental health team we in Core CAMHS, support young people with moderate, severe and enduring mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties.

In the role you will join a robust multidisciplinary team, providing assessment and interventions for children and young people with complex, severe, and persistent emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

There will be scope for creativity in this team, to develop evidence-based interventions, to think systemically and work collaboratively with children, young people and families, informed by the local Transformation Plan, Future in Mind and the THRIVE framework.

It really is time to think differently and creatively about how we can help more children and young people with their emotional wellbeing and mental health.

If you are a Registered Mental Health Nurse / Occupational Therapist / Social Worker, we would love to hear from you! Come and join and make a difference to children and young people in The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin area!

### Main duties of the job

- Assessing and providing therapeutic interventions for young people who require intervention and support from a secondary mental health service.
- oversight and delivery of the provision of planned recovery focused care working in partnership with young people, carers and other professionals.
- working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team and other services to provide seamless and holistic care for young people, this may include, social care, schools or our other partnership agencies.
- management of a caseload, which includes, assessment, care-planning in conjunction with service user and carer and utilising service specific outcome measures to guide and evaluate effectiveness of individual treatment plans.
- opportunity to be involved in service transformation and service improvement to meet the needs of children and young people in the local area.
- provide supervision to junior colleagues.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a further detailed description of the role.

### 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

### Skills

**Essential**

- Knowledge and experience of holistic assessment and risk assessment and management
- able to prioritise workload and demands effectively
- ability to work autonomously as part of the role

### experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs
- experience of providing supervision
- experience of supporting and engaging with children, young people and their families within a professional role

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in community setting and making decisions autonomously

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- hold a professional registration - RMN, Social worker, AHP
- Skills of assessing, planning and evaluating care, for people with mental health related difficulties,
- extensive post registration/qualifying experience of working within a mental health setting/supporting people with mental health needs

**Desirable**

- additional training relevant to role - e.g DBT , EMDR

## Documents

- [band 6 jd (pdf, 192.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10530119)
- [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957)

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