Mental Health Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

CAMHS children and young people Looked After and Adopted Children’s team

Permanent – Band 6

Part Time -30 hours per week

Here in Bradford CAMHS we are looking to appoint a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner. There will be an opportunity to build therapeutic relationships with young people and their support systems, whilst assessing risk and mental health needs. Liaison, communication and consultation with other professional groups and partner agencies will be necessary to ensure that robust and holistic care plans are established and implemented. There will be opportunities for clinical development, involvement in therapeutic groups and chances to offer trauma informed interventions, as well as caseholding responsibilities. You will be working within an experienced multi disciplinary team and under a supportive operational and clinical leadership team.

Bradford District Care Foundation Trust can offer you compassionate and inclusive leadership. We are keen to hear and learn from your experience to further develop our trauma informed service. We truly respect the expertise new staff bring to our service.

Are you passionate about Children’s Mental Health Services and enthusiastic about collaborating with colleagues across the service and between agencies? If so, we are keen to consider applicants who wish to develop and work towards improving our relationships with partner agencies.

Closing- 27th september 2026

Shortlisting- 30th september 2026

Interview- 12th October 2026

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the development and provision of services to children and youngpeople with complex mental health needs. This will include assessing, planning anddelivering care packages both within groups and also individually and working as part ofa multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Occupational therapist, Social worker, Nurse

Desirable

  • Student mentoring qualification (e.g. Practice Educator award)

Experience

Essential

  • 2 years Post qualification experience within a mental health setting

Desirable

  • Experience of child and adolescent mental health nursing

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: 27 September 2026

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