CAMHS Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

Do you have a real passion for working with children and young people with learning disabilities? We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated clinician to join Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Learning Disability service to help deliver responsive and effective support for children, young people and their families.

This post is full time (37.5 hours/ week). The service covers Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We are looking for a clinician who will be primarily working in Herefordshire, and for any service-wide meetings you will be expected to travel to the service’s main base in Malvern.

No two days will be the same, so flexibility, problem solving skills and a desire to make a difference are all vital for this role.

We are excited to offer:

The opportunity to be part of future service development and a strong desire to innovate and work differently in supporting children’s mental health

High quality Line Management and clinical supervision

Training and Career Progression opportunities

Flexible working, allowing you to maintain work-life balance

Wellbeing support programmes

A wide range of NHS discounts

Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

Main duties of the job

You will care co-ordinate a number of young people on your caseload, taking responsibility for assessments and therapeutic interventions.

You will carry out risk assessments appropriate for children and young people with mental health needs and learning disabilities and monitor and evaluate interventions using outcome measures.

You will have a proven ability to liaise with and work in collaboration with relevant agencies according to the needs of the young person. You will promote and maintain good working relationships and effective communication through liaison with service users, colleagues and other professionals.

You will operate in any appropriate settings including CAMHS bases, schools, families’ homes, residential homes, CDC’s etc. Occasional working within highly emotional environments with families and staff groups will require a high degree of self-awareness and effective communication skills.

You will work flexible hours to ensure the service can operate effectively to meet individual needs.

This post requires completion of all mandatory training including ‘Safety Intervention’ (subject to Occupational Health Clearance).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Professional Qualification: RNLD,RN (Child)/RMN, SW or OT

Desirable

  • Relevant Post graduate study or be able to demonstrate further skills based training

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced gained during pre- registration training either in a mental health or child placement setting
  • Experience of working directly to support children, families and/or wider network of professionals
  • Providing consultation to internal and external colleagues
  • Experience in undertaking assessments

Desirable

  • Working in inpatient settings
  • Providing care in community settings
  • Working in a multi-disciplinary Team

Knowledge

Essential

  • Working knowledge of Health Service
  • Good knowledge of mental health presentation in children with learning disabilities
  • Understand a range of communication styles when working with children and families in distress
  • Knowledge of Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Working Together to Safeguard Children and safeguarding procedures

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
  • Undertake audit
  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to work as a member of a team

Desirable

  • Basic IT competency
  • Ability to undertake risk assessments within CAMHS

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Awareness of personal strengths and limitations
  • Able to meet the travel requirements of the post

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 14 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.