Job summary
Join Young Minds Matter, Navigos Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and help make a real difference to the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people, and families across North East Lincolnshire. We are recruiting to three exciting practitioner roles: supporting children and families in kinship care arrangements, acting as a link worker with the Complex Emotional Needs Service, and delivering interventions within Core CAMHS. You will join a supportive, multidisciplinary team that values collaboration, innovation, staff wellbeing, and professional development, with access to excellent supervision, training opportunities, and a modern, welcoming working environment.

Main duties of the job
The Kinship Practitioner will support children and young people living in kinship care arrangements, working closely with carers, families, and partner agencies to promote emotional wellbeing and stability.

The Complex Emotional Needs practitioner will provide dedicated support across our Young Peoples Complex Emotional Needs and Transition Pathways within NAVIGO. You will act as a key worker for young people with complex emotional needs, supporting engagement in therapeutic interventions, coordinating care, working with families, and facilitating transitions to adult services.

The Core CAMHS Practitioner will assess, formulate, and deliver evidence-based interventions for a range of mental health difficulties.

Across all roles, we seek compassionate, resilient, and motivated professionals with excellent communication, relationship-building, and multidisciplinary working skills, a child-centred approach, and a commitment to achieving positive outcomes for children and their families

About us
Hello!

We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.

We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Come and Join us !

Please note: Whilst we value all applications, if we believe an application to be AI generated, we will use a checking tool and may reject any application that has been automatically generated.

Should you require any assistance in completing this application due to a disability or other needs please contact navigo.recruitment@nhs.net

Details
Date posted: 05 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: B9816-655
Job locations: Freshney Green Medical Centre, Sorrel Road, Grimsby, DN34 4GB, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
• Work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships both with members of the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies caring for and supporting children and young people.
• Empower children, young people and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills and act as an advocate where appropriate.
• Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways, individual and group interventions in partnership with young people/ families/carers and other workers involved in care delivery.
• Provide therapeutic interventions within relevant care pathways.
• Work within defined waiting times.
• Provide an extended hours service, as required.
• Participate in screening of referrals for appropriateness and onward signposting/referral as appropriate.
• Participate in the planning, delivery and evaluation of group interventions.
• Provide support, advice, consultation and training to partnership agencies.
• Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards in partnership with wider childrens services and fully engage with safeguarding, single assessment and other processes which requires working together with other agencies.
• Proactively involve young people and families in service development including using service questionnaires to obtain structured feedback.
• Provide a professional, non-stigmatising service to children and families.
• Work closely with other colleagues within the service to enable effective transitions to and from other areas.
• Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards.
• Always act in a dignified and responsible manner with service users, families/carers and colleagues, using appropriate language and communication skills, which acknowledge barriers to understanding, cultural differences and diversity.
• To provide supportive and sensitive communication, written and verbal advice to service users, families/carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and of barriers to effective communication e .g., sensory or cognitive impairment and unrealistic expectations whilst being considerate of client confidentiality.
• Develop and maintain communication (sensitive, complex and contentious) with other teams and/or external agencies, in order to promote good care.
• To confidently convey complex written and verbal information on both clinical and non-clinical issues and to support the development of these skills with individuals within the team.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Relevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with severe and enduring mental ill health.
• Experience of using evidence-based practice.

Desirable

• Post registration experience of assessing, formulating, and treating children and young people presenting with mental health needs.

Knowledge
Essential

• Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties.
• Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.

Qualifications
Essential

• RNMH / RNLD / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist or equivalent with current professional registration
• Or RN (child) / RSCN with evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice

Desirable

• Additional therapy qualification (e.g., DBT, CBT, EMDR, family therapy or systemic practice)

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Navigo Health and Social Care CIC
Address: Freshney Green Medical Centre, Sorrel Road, Grimsby, DN34 4GB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://navigocare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Senior Operational Manager for Young Minds Matter, Odette Rawdon, odette.rawdon2@nhs.net, 01472252570

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.