Job Summary
Are you an experienced mental health professional looking to take the next step in your career while maintaining a strong clinical focus? The post sits in our Responsive Adolescent and Childrens Home-Based Treatment Team (ReACH) Team (formerly known as the Crisis Team).

We are looking for an exceptional Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner who thrives in clinical practice, values meaningful relationships with children, young people and families, and is ready to help the shape future of our service. The role is ideal for someone who is looking to remain firmly rooted in frontline clinical work, but also using their experience to lead, influence and inspire others.

Youll manage a complex caseload of clinical work, support colleagues to develop their practice, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the team and service. If youre passionate about delivering outstanding care and want a role where your expertise genuinely matters, wed love to hear from you!

To apply for this role, you need to be a registered staff member to apply for this role e.g. Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist.

This role is fast-paced and a rewarding role where no two days are the same. Youd be expected to work collaboratively with children, young people, families and external agencies to offer intensive home-based assessment, support and treatment.

If you want to hear more about the role please get in touch with Chloe Sennitt!

Main Duties of the Job

• Assessing children and young people in a variety of setting (e.g. Accident and Emergency Department, home visits, schools)
• Working with families and carers to implement safety plans and collaborative care plans
• Undertaking risk assessments and reviewing risk documentation
• Allocated as lead clinician on young people on your caseload to implement home-based treatment
• Support staff in the team and offer clinical supervision
• Support with delivering training and guidance to the team
• Referrals to internal and external agencies for young people and families
• Taking on the role as shift co-ordinator
• Delivering therapeutic intervention over a short period to children and young people
• Submitting safeguarding referrals where required
• Leading on support for those young people who have been recently discharged from an inpatient unit

Role Location and Requirements
The role is currently based at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield and you would be expected to be in the office every shift. You will also need to be able to drive and have access to a car, as the team offer home visits.

About Us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by 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 a difference 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.

Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us 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 and help each year.

We are 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.

Details
Date posted: 29 June 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Flexible working
Reference number: C9378-W1510A
Job locations: SWYT NHS Trust, Fieldhead Hospital, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 3SP, United Kingdom

Job Responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies/professionals.

To provider supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed for the team leader.

To promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant professional qualification, e.g. nursing, or other professional allied to medicine
• Post qualification training in identified portfolio, e.g. LD. LAC, eating disorder
• Dip SW or relevant mental health profession
• A teaching and assessing qualification
• Membership of professional body

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification in mental health (e.g. CBT, Family Therapy, Counselling)
• Masters Level qualification
• Formal management/supervisory qualification

Personal attributes
Essential

• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Commitment to multi-agency approach/working
• Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
• Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive
• Ability to make and lead decisions under pressure/crisis situations
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
• Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
• Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
• To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
• A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
• To have integrity, be honest, open, transparent and respectful.

Experience
Essential

• Experience of delivering training to others
• Extensive experience in identified portfolio requirements
• Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with Children, young people and their carers in a mental health or other complex care setting
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts
• Knowledge and experience of working with Equality and Diversity.
• Multidisciplinary team working
• Inter-agency liaison and consultation
• Experience of providing highly specialist advice and supervision to other professionals
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for working with children, young people, mental health and safeguarding
• Evidence of advanced clinical/therapeutic knowledge and skills in mental health.
• Extensive experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence based practice
• Advanced experience of safeguarding children and young people.

Desirable

• Experience of community settings

Specialist knowledge and skills
Essential

• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability to manage own caseload and to be a self-reliant and autonomous practitioner
• Excellent negotiation skills, and problem solving skills
• Customer service orientation
• Excellent record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
• IT skills.

Physical attributes
Essential

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

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 Contact Details
For questions about the job, contact: Chloe Sennitt
Email: chloe.sennitt@swyt.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01924316200