Multidisciplinary Pathway Worker
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Canterbury, CT2 8JYView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
28 October 2026
9 days leftJob description
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, or qualified CYP...
- Clinical Assessment & Formulation: Undertake comprehensive assessments covering mental state, risk, safeguarding, and psychosocial needs to co-produce robust care plans and risk-management strategies with children, young people, and their families.
- Evidence-Based Interventions: Manage an allocated caseload and deliver child-centred, family-focused interventions aligned with NICE guidelines and CYP-IAPT principles (such as CBT, Systemic Family Practice, psychoeducation, and parent support).
- Outcome Monitoring: Use routine outcome measures to track therapeutic progress, review care plans, and ensure positive outcomes for service users.
- Multi-Agency Collaboration: Partner effectively with local schools, GPs, paediatric teams, social services, and third-sector organisations to deliver integrated support.
- Governance & Service Improvement: Participate actively in MDT meetings, clinical reviews, audits, safeguarding discussions, and service development initiatives.
- Team Support & Clinical Administration: Maintain accurate, timely electronic clinical records while supporting junior colleagues, trainees, or students and engaging in continuous professional development.
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential
- Successful completion of graduate training such as nursing, social work or occupational therapy, or equivalent substantial KMMH/CYPMHS clinical experience.
- Active registration with your relevant regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC)
Desirable
- Additional post-qualification training relevant to children and young people's mental health, risk assessment, neurodevelopmental needs, trauma informed practice or evidence-based psychological interventions.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, including complex, challenging or high-risk presentations.
- Experience of carrying out assessment and delivering clinical interventions within a multi-disciplinary setting, including work with parents/carers, schools and partner agencies.
Desirable
- Experience of CYP-IAPT informed practice, school-based assessment, community based assessment, group work, parent/carer interventions, or supervising junior staff / mental health workers.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Additional post-qualification training relevant to children and young people's mental health, risk assessment, neurodevelopmental needs, trauma informed practice or evidence-based psychological interventions.
- Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor, assess and respond to risk to ensure safety.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people, safeguarding procedures and policies.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively about complex and sensitive clinical matters, verbally and in writing
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
14 October 2026
Last checked
16 October 2026
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