CYPMH Practitioner

£38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year, £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 05/03/2026

To provide clinical leadership and supervision to a skill mixed team, and to facilitate a culture of learning and reflective practice. To work in collaboration with the (service manager / team leader) to support the clinical governance / public health and NHS modernisation agenda. To actively contribute to the implementation of the safeguarding agenda within the service, in partnership with the Lancashire Care safeguarding team.

To assume responsibility for management of a defined caseload using specialist knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning to undertake assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care programmes for children and families, liaising with and referring to relevant agencies as appropriate. To take an active role in the holistic assessment and treatment of young people who present to the service, with mental health problems and especially those that are at risk of, or have attempted deliberate self harm.

Provide liaison with other professionals and agencies in order to provide effective communication leading to a comprehensive and integrated package of care around the young person, their families and/or carers.

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

To offer therapeutic interventions based on evidence-based practice and in line with the NICE guidelines.

To ensure the clients rights of confidentiality are maintained at all times. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice/ conduct.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children, young people and their families/carers.

To provide an assessment and therapy service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations as well as interviews with children, young people and their families/carers.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people and their families/carers.

To act as an advocate to facilitate the views and choices expressed by children, young people, families, groups and communities, where appropriate.

To contribute to the seven day service duty rota.

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

For an informal discussion please contact Rachel Lynch Team Manager on

Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

• Provide clinical leadership and supervision to a skill mixed team and foster a culture of learning and reflective practice.
• Collaborate with service manager / team leader to support clinical governance, public health and NHS modernisation agendas.
• Manage a defined caseload using specialist knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care programmes for children and families; liaise with and refer to relevant agencies as appropriate.
• Assess and treat young people with mental health problems, including those at risk of or who have attempted deliberate self-harm; undertake holistic assessment and treatment.
• Liaise with other professionals and agencies to ensure a comprehensive and integrated package of care around the young person, families and/or carers.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions in line with NICE guidelines.
• Maintain confidentiality and high standards of clinical record keeping (electronic data entry, reporting, professional self-governance).
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge of children, young people and their families/carers.
• Provide assessment and therapy using complex data from multiple sources (psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, observations, interviews).
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people and their families/carers.
• Advocate for the views and choices of children, young people, families, groups and communities where appropriate.

• Relevant professional qualification and registration (as applicable to role).
• Experience in clinical leadership, safeguarding, and multidisciplinary teamwork.
• Ability to work in a busy service with children and young people and to manage complex caseloads.

EEO Statement:
Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).