Senior Transitions Practitioner

Job summary

The Senior Transitions Practitioner is a registered clinician who provides autonomous, highquality clinical care to young people within the CAMHS Transitions Service. The post holder is responsible for the assessment, formulation, planning, implementation and review of complex care plans for young people transitioning between inpatient and community settings.

The role includes clinical leadership, supervision of junior staff, and contribution to the strategic development of the transitions service. The Senior Transitions Practitioner works across inpatient and community environments, providing specialist expertise in transition planning, risk management and discharge coordination.

The post holder plays a key role in reducing length of stay, preventing readmission and ensuring safe, effective transitions by working collaboratively with young people, families, carers and multiagency partners, including adult mental health services.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Practice

Complete assessments, including risk and care planning, for young people with complex needs

Manage and prioritise a complex caseload, making appropriate decisions independently

Deliver evidencebased interventions (1:1 and group), adapting to need and risk

Monitor risk, respond to changes, and escalate concerns appropriately

Contribute clinical expertise in MDT meetings and care planning

Leadership & Supervision

Provide supervision to Band 4--5 staff, students, and trainees

Act as a role model, promoting good practice and reflective learning

Support daytoday running of the service and deputise for the Team Lead when needed

Contribute to managing risk, incidents, and service improvements

Service Development & Governance

Support service development and improvement work

Contribute to audits and outcome monitoring

Use evidence and guidance to inform practice and service delivery

Job responsibilities

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