Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS CRHTT
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham, B13 8QE
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
8 September 2026
8 days left
Job description
If you're a clinician who thrives on meaningful work, rapid decision-making, and the chance to potentially change the trajectory of a young person's l...
This role provides rapid, specialist mental health support to children and young people experiencing acute mental health crisis. As a senior clinician within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team, you will deliver urgent assessments, formulate risk and safety plans, and provide intensive home-based treatment designed to stabilise young people in their own environment and prevent unnecessary hospital admission. You will work closely with families, schools, social care, paediatrics, and inpatient services to ensure safe, coordinated care and timely discharge back into the community. You will act as a key point of contact during periods of crisis, offering skilled de-escalation, brief therapeutic interventions, and confident clinical decision-making. As part of a robust multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to case formulation, crisis planning, medication monitoring, and high-quality documentation. This role requires resilience, autonomy, and a commitment to delivering compassionate, trauma-informed care to young people and their families during their most vulnerable moments
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Experience
Essential
- Delivering and /or facilitating evidence based interventions to a wide range of service users and carers
- Experience delivering community-based or home-treatment interventions.
- Experience working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience supporting safe discharge planning and coordinating care across services
- Experience working within CAMHS or a mental health crisis service, ideally with children and young people.
- Therapeutic interventions
Desirable
- Strong understanding of child and adolescent development, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and family dynamics.
Values
Essential
- Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
- Deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible Be the best you can be, always look for ways to improve and develop to reach your potential
- Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
- Joint working with others, e.g. patients, colleagues in the delivery of high quality healthcare
- Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC or HCPC registered professional
Desirable
- Relevant Post qualifying qualification e.g. or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of training
- Specific qualification in a relevant therapeutic speciality e.g. counselling, Family Therapy, CBT, substance misuse
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of common CAMHS crisis presentations, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, behavioural dysregulation, and eating disorders.
- Understanding of equality, diversity, cultural competence, and trauma-informed practice.
- Understanding of equality, diversity, cultural competence, and trauma-informed practice.
- Skilled in de-escalation, crisis management, and delivering brief, evidence-based interventions in high-pressure situations.
- Ability to complete rapid, holistic mental health and risk assessments for children and young people in acute crisis.
Desirable
- Strong understanding of child and adolescent development, attachment, trauma, neurodiversity, and family dynamics.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
25 August 2026
Last checked
27 August 2026
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