Band 7

Main area

CAMHS Practitioner

Grade

Band 7

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

367-CYP-101301-B

Site

Borehamwood Civic Office and/or Watford Peace Centre

Town

Borehamwood or Watford

Salary

£50,008 - £56,908 per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS included)

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

20/10/2026 23:59

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

Job overview

CYPMHS South Hertfordshire is seeking to recruit a highly skilled and motivated CYP Practitioner with an appropriate professional qualification and relevant experience to join our multi-disciplinary team.

This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week) offered on a permanent basis.

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality care, making a significant contribution to the clinical and nursing input within the team. Responsibilities will include active participation in the referral and allocation process, undertaking assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions, risk management, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, and care coordination. The role also involves contributing to case discussions and wider service meetings.

In addition, the post holder will provide consultation and supervision to colleagues, students, and professionals within partner services.

Main duties of the job

• To develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
• To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic based and outreach models.
• To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Care coordinate a caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
• Together with other team members to be responsible for developing nursing practice in the service including the supervision of both nursing colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines in the service.
• To actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills, e.g. nurse prescribing.
• To chair/attend MDTs for all teams providing clinical sign off
• To work collaboratively and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity in terms of the early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
• To take a leading role for service innovation and development, including projects with other junior staff to ensure delivery of safe effective nursing

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Taking responsibility for making a significant contribution to the nursing input, participating fully in the referral and allocation process, assessments, treatment, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination of service users as well as contributing to case discussions and service-related

meetings.

Offering consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff in other services.

Person specificationQualificationsEssential criteria

• Any Professional and Accredited Qualification of Nurse, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologists, Child and Psychotherapists and/or Systemic Psychotherapists,
• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Willingness to complete further training and qualification identified as appropriate to the role
• Communications skills / Leadership training

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with Child and Adolescent service users of mental health services

ExperienceEssential criteria

• Extensive experience of working with CYPMHS
• Leadership skills
• Range of work procedures and practices; base level of theoretical knowledge.
• Knowledge and experience to deal with nonroutine issues such as problem solving for an area of work or developing alternative or additional procedure
• Knowledge of specialist functional / medical/legal terms, organisational policies and procedures
• Experience in a mental health environment or NHS

SkillsEssential criteria

• Experience in working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience liaising with external agencies and report writing.
• Awareness of mental health problems affecting children and young people
• Experience and understanding of neurodevelopment difficulties, including Autism spectrum disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• Awareness of child protection policies and procedures.
• Able to provide and receive routine information...