Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Closing date: 28 December 2025

We are passionate about working with children and young people. Our strength lies in our humanity and the values we uphold. It is important to us that children and young people are seen and we take the time needed to listen to their story. Our hope is that young people and their families leave our care with hope for the future.

We are looking to recruit a Band 7 senior mental health practitioner (nurse or other relevant registered professional) who will work alongside a team to provide clinical leadership across the CYP Mental Health Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. You will need to have a passion for working with young people at times of crisis. You will be supporting them to remain at home or supporting step down care from hospital. The service uses a trauma informed approach with a high reliance on Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy models.

If you are passionate about working with children and young people and share our values, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This is a permanent post of which full time or part time (30 hours) can be offered.

The team covers the hours of 9am to 10pm weekdays and 9am - 5pm weekends and bank holidays. Shifts are managed by a rolling rota system. Being mobile is a key element of this role so the ability to drive and own a vehicle is essential.

The CYP CRHTT will work closely with our colleagues in liaison at the Southampton University Hospital. Joined up working between liaison and CRHTT will occur at the weekends to meet the needs of children and young people presenting in crisis.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, hybrid working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if, as a potential candidate, you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Professional qualifications relevant to CAMHS e.g., Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
• Significant senior practitioner experience in CAMHS setting

Experience

• Min 5 years post qualifying experience
• Experience of working with complex children, young people and families, experiencing severe mental health and trauma difficulties
• Supervisory skills - caseload
• Management and clinical supervision
• Ability to chair and facilitate team and multi agency meetings
• Experience of multi professional/multi agency working
• Appraiser of junior staff and/or peers
• Performance monitoring

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre