Mental Health Practitioner

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 26 October 2026

Are you passionate about helping young people with mental health problems? Do you have experience of working with Children in Care and their extended networks and are committed to getting the best outcomes for them? If you answer yes to these questions, then Wakefield CAMHS is for you!

We are looking for an experienced and confident Mental Health Practitioner in the WakefieldCAMHS Enhanced Outreach Team. You will work within a busy multidisciplinary team. You must have significant experience and be able to demonstrate yourability to work with young people and their families/carers/networks,particularly Children in Care, who can often present with a range of complex mental health needs. The teams criteria also covers forensic like behaviours including animal cruelty and fire setting.

You must have arange of skills and knowledge to deliver the clinical aspects of the role. Youmust be able to work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework.

Please be awarethat you must meet all the essential qualification requirements of the role (as described in the person specification) to be considered for interview. You willneed to be a registered with a core profession.

Secondment opportunities may be considered for internal candidates.

• Hold a caseload of young people with complex mental health concerns to provide therapeutic intervention.
• Attend MDT meetings.
• Liaise with other agencies, such as Social Care Direct, on a regular basis.
• Ensuring documentation and relevant paperwork is up to date and accurate.
• Conduct risk assessments and support young people, cars/parents to manage the risks identified.
• Offer therapeutic intervention to young peopleon your caseload.
• Support with the duty worker rota (within working hours)

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

While this role meets the eligibility requirements for Skilled Worker sponsorship, due to the short-term nature of the contract, the Trust will not be offering sponsorship for this post.

We welcome applications from individuals who already have the right to work in the UK or are on a visa route that permits employment without sponsorship. Such applications will be considered alongside all others.

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

JOB SUMMARY

Thepost-holder will:

Provide assessment and treatment to children and young people with mental health needs;

Work autonomously and collaboratively withinthe MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals;

Promote the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.

Toprovide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with awide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision froma senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

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To support the ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.

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To provide assessment,…