Advanced Mental Health Practitioner

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The closing date is 20 July 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 7 Advanced Mental Health practitioners to join the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This role aims to work in collaboration with the Clinical Leads to provide quality assessment, formulation and interventions in CORE CAMHS, with skilled liaison with wider CAMHS pathways, partners and Primary Care.

Key Responsibilities:

Working with the Clinical Leads to support and develop robust clinical protocols, offering consultation, supervision, training and assisting all clinical staff to provide the best service for families, raising the profile of young people and carers' access to services whilst ensuring best practice. Supporting screening and triage of new referrals, initial assessment, clinical review, formulation of care planning and care coordination of young people in the community, inpatient and across all CYP pathways.

Leading in complex cases, facilitating multiple pathways, risk assessment and supporting the patient journey through specialist services. In addition: to participate in clinical audit, clinical documentation, developing SOPs, policies, responding to complaints and improving service through service user feedback. To support with CPD Staff Training and supervision to ensure that Staff understand the protocols and Clinical Systems requirements, Mental Health Act legislation and Safeguarding practice.

To ensure the continuation of Service User and family Engagement, regarding planning, monitoring and review. The post holder will need to confidently represent CAMHS service model and criteria, in liaison with partner agencies and wider stakeholders.

The post will hold additional clinical responsibilities and senior on call duties within CAMHS as per individual job plan.

NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county – as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person‑centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.

At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to be an accredited living wage employer.

We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where our people feel valued and able to thrive.

Key Result Areas:
To support the designated teams to meet service objectives, embrace performance monitoring and develop effective reporting mechanisms. Critically evaluate and interpret evidence‑based research findings, making informed judgments about their implications for changing/developing services and clinical practice. To contribute to the development of and implementation of service and performance measures, that links service deliverables to health and patient outcomes. To be pro‑active in developing, partnerships building and cultivating support.

To contribute to the development of shared policies and procedures that actively contributes to seamless services and enables integration across organisational boundaries and between key partners. Work collaboratively across the health community with Service Managers, Clinical Lead and partners in NHFT and NCC. To support the facilitation of a strong customer focus and user engagement to ensure regular and timely feedback that supports rapid innovation to improve effectiveness.

To challenge complacency and identify activities that do not achieve demonstrable improvements in patient and health outcomes, gaining staff and team ownership of change. To respond to complaints in accordance with Trust policy. To support the…