Post Qualified CAMHS Practitioner L3

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid

Salary: Starting Salary is £42,123 (Level one) rising to £45, 529 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location:Loxley House, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
- Citywide locations

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and qualified Systemic Family Practitioner to join our Citywide CAMHS Team as a Level 3 CAMHS Practitioner. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled clinician to work autonomously with children, young people and families presenting with complex emotional wellbeing, mental health and relational needs. Working from a systemic and strengths-based perspective, you will support families to understand the patterns, relationships and wider contextual factors that contribute to difficulties, helping them to identify meaningful and sustainable solutions.

As a senior practitioner within the team, you will hold a caseload of complex cases involving a range of mental health presentations, often alongside safeguarding concerns, family adversity, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences, emotional dysregulation and multiple interacting risks. You will utilise systemic formulation to understand the child or young person's difficulties within the context of their relationships, family dynamics, community and wider professional systems, ensuring interventions are collaborative, culturally responsive and outcome focused.

You will undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, deliver systemic interventions to children, young people and families, and contribute to screening and Single Point of Access activity. The role requires confidence in managing complexity, undertaking risk assessments and working with families where there may be significant safeguarding concerns, conflict, uncertainty or risk. You will contribute to multi-agency planning and decision-making, ensuring children and young people receive timely and appropriate support.

A key aspect of the role will be using systemic principles to influence the professional networks around children and families. You will provide consultation, mentoring and reflective support to colleagues, helping to develop systemic thinking across the service and supporting practitioners to understand and respond effectively to complex family and professional dynamics.

You will work closely with health, education, social care and voluntary sector partners, contributing to training, service development and partnership working. As a Level 3 practitioner, you will be expected to take a lead role in supporting colleagues with complex case discussions, contributing specialist systemic expertise whilst promoting high-quality, trauma-informed and relationship-based practice across the service.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• A recognised professional qualification in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology or a related profession, together with a relevant…