Senior Mental Health Practitioner; Lead Clinician

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 28 October 2026

We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and dynamic clinician to join our CAMHS ReACH Team(Crisis Team) as a Lead Clinician.

This is a fixed term role of12 months.

This is a really exciting opportunity for a senior mental health professional, who is passionate about delivering high-quality crisis care whilst supporting and developing amulti-disciplinary team.

The role is a combination of clinical leadership and direct clinical work, you would hold a small clinical caseload ensuring to remain connected to the frontline practice whilst providing leadership, supervision and clinical oversight across the service.

As a Lead Clinician, you willplay a key role in ensuring that children, young people and families are experiencing a timely and effective service. Youll be working closely with theTeam Manager and wider leadership team to maintain high clinical standards,promote continuous improvement and support staff to deliver outstanding care.

Youll also provide expert clinical advice, support decision making around risk and crisis management, andhelp shape service development. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, youwill manage a small caseload of young people with complex presentations,offering assessment, intervention and liaison where required.

• Provide clinical leadership within the team
• Hold a small complex clinical caseload
• Offer clinical supervision,mentoring and supporting members of the MDT
• Provide expert advice on assessment, formulation, risk management and crisis intervention
• Support the Team Manager with team delivery and development. Including quality improvements and decision making
• Promote evidence-based practice and ensure high standards of clinical governance
• Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement initiatives
• Develop strong partnerships with other senior leaders in the team
• Support staff well-being,professional development and positive team culture

The service is based at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield and youd be expected to be in base during your shifts. The service works 7 days a week, 8am-8pm and you would work on a shift basis.

If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with Jen Wilson.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged tohave 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 thispost.

We welcome applications from individuals who already have the right to work in the UK or are on a visa routethat 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.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

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