Mental Health Specialist CAMHS

Contract Type: Fixed Term (March 2027)

Working Hours: 37 Hours per week x 2 Posts

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £47,665 (Level one) rising to £50,908 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location:Multiple Nottingham City Locations, predominantly Loxley House and Bulwell Riverside.

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We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Mental Health Specialist to play a key clinical leadership role within our Citywide CAMHS Service. This is a fast-paced and varied role requiring an experienced clinician who is confident working autonomously with complexity, providing evidence-based interventions, managing significant risk and supporting the delivery of high-quality mental health services for children, young people and families.

As a Mental Health Specialist, you will hold a diverse caseload of children and young people presenting with complex emotional wellbeing and mental health needs. You will undertake specialist assessments, develop formulations and deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions, whilst supporting children, young people and families to achieve positive outcomes. You will be confident working with a broad range of presentations and able to adapt interventions to meet individual need.

Alongside your direct clinical work, you will provide consultation, therapeutic supervision and case oversight to practitioners across the service. You will be responsible for authorising assessments, formulations and intervention plans, ensuring clinical decision‑making is evidence-based, proportionate and responsive to risk. You will support practitioners to manage complexity and uncertainty and contribute to maintaining high standards of clinical practice across the service.

A key aspect of the role will be providing leadership in relation to complex and high‐risk presentations. This includes supporting and managing work involving self‑harm, suicidal ideation, significant safeguarding concerns, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, emotional dysregulation, exploitation risks and other contextual vulnerabilities. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate advanced clinical judgement, contribute to multi‑agency decision‑making and take shared responsibility for risk management, safeguarding decision‑making and the overall safety of the service.

The role will include consultation, group delivery, transitions work, participation in screening and Single Point of Access activity, and supporting pathway development across CAMHS. You will contribute to complex screening discussions and decision‑making, ensuring children and young people are allocated to the most appropriate intervention and pathway based on need, risk and clinical presentation.

As a senior clinician, you will support service quality, staff development and continuous improvement through supervision, mentoring, consultation and the modelling of high‑quality clinical…