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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Do you have a passion for young people's mental health?Do you thrive in multi-disciplinary settings where psychological skills are highly valued?</p> <p>Working in a very friendly and dynamic CAMHS Service, we have an exciting full-time opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist based mainly in our Buxton Core CAMHS Team. We are happy to consider flexible options.</p> <p>You will support our psychological therapies pathways, and this is most likely to be in our DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) or CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) Team; according to service needs.</p> <p>You will also support the service transforming our ROMs (Routine Outcome Measures) delivery or support our existing clinical supervision programme; according to service needs. There are opportunities for indirect working (e.g. consultation).</p> <p>Our Service has 10 teams with excellent track records working closely together, with opportunities for gaining different experiences to develop your portfolio. Our internal training programme for staff is positively-rated and clinical supervision practice is highly valued. We value the diversity of our clinicians, and the skill sets they bring.</p> <p>Whilst this is an 8a post we are very happy to receive applications from soon to be or newly qualified Clinical Psychologists in a preceptorship role (with a structured development plan to progress with regular support). We have well established links with the training courses and regularly have trainees on placement.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>As a Clinical Psychologist in Core CAMHS you will:</p> <p> Provide specialist psychological/therapy-based assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties</p> <p> Provide a pivotal lead role in supporting our Service (either improving our Routine Outcome Measures delivery or supporting our existing Clinical Supervision Programme (according to service need)</p> <p> Be client-centred and a goal-focused member of our multi-disciplinary service, championing ROMs and contributing to service developments, as appropriate.</p> <p> Empower and support young people on their journey to recovery</p> <p> Offer clinical advice and support, consultations, supervision and training for professionals in our CAMHS Service.</p> <p> Be an active member of an experienced multi-disciplinary service and contribute to team and service developments.</p> <p> Contribute to case discussions and a 'careteam' approach to formulation.</p>   <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>The founding principles of the NHS have significantly influenced our "Leading the Chesterfield Way", and our Proud to CARE values. This means leading with care, openness, integrity and embedding an inclusive culture. We know that people have a life and responsibilities outside of work and we offer flexibility and a whole raft of support to care for your physical and mental well-being. This role is hugely important to us and we look forward to hearing from you.</p> <p>Located in the heart of the peak district, in the beautiful spa town of Buxton, this post (at one of our Core CAMHS bases) offers a fantastic location with circular walks, parks, spa facilities, a range of shops and cafes; and boasting impressive Georgian and Victorian architecture.</p> <p>There will be some opportunities to carry out work at one of our other bases in the historic market town of Chesterfield: either at our main hospital on a greenfield site with abundant countryside and lovely views or our newer CAMHS base (where some therapy clinics are currently based) ideally located near Chesterfield train station and the town centre.</p> <p>Please see the Job Description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.</p> <p>Please find out more about our service at camhsnorthderbyshire.nhs.uk</p> <p>Follow us on Facebook and on Twitter: @hrcrhft @WellbeingCRH @royalhospital</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>27 August 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 7</p>
  
  

  
  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      Depending on experience
      
        B7 £47,810 - 54,710 or B8a £55,690-£62,682 per annum, pro rata
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Full-time,
        
      
        
          Part-time,
        
      
        
          Flexible working
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>166-FC-7383538</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Chesterfield Royal Hospital</p>
      <p>Calow</p>
      <p>Chesterfield</p>
            <p>S44 5BL</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
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          Qualifications and Training
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Doctoral Qualification in Clinical Psychology (or about to qualify)</li>
        
        <li>HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist or expected to be so (for candidates still to complete training)</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Additional training post-doctorate</li>
          
          <li>Training in a specific therapy: DBT</li>
          
          <li>Specific Training and/or accreditation in another evidenced-based therapy (e.g. CBT, IPT, Systemic)</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Personal Attributes
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to tolerate and manage highly distressing emotional issues</li>
        
        <li>Ability to manage and work with organisational stress and to effectively manage the stress of others</li>
        
        <li>Ability to engage in sustained mental effort involving tasks demanding intense concentration</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Valid driving licence</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Skills and Knowledge
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Knowledge of appropriate psychological models of assessment, formulation and intervention for young people with mental health problems</li>
        
        <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills</li>
        
        <li>Research and evaluation skills</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Well-developed consultation skills with professionals</li>
          
          <li>Excellent formulation skills and able to convey complex ideas in straightforward, accessible style</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to work professionally and co-operatively in multi-disciplinary team.</li>
        
        <li>Experience in working with children, young people and families in a community setting.</li>
        
        <li>Experience and knowledge of working with young people with mental health problems.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of managing risk in clinical presentations.</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of engagement with clinical supervision.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>CAMHS specific experience</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with young people with neurodiversity</li>
          
          <li>Experience of identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns in clinical practice</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with people with complex trauma and attachment difficulties</li>
          
          <li>Contribution to service evaluations, projects or research in the mental health field</li>
          
          <li>Experience of supervising other clinicians</li>
          
          <li>Experience of some level of team or service development</li>
          
          <li>Supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists</li>
          
          <li>Experience of utilising/monitoring routine outcome measures (ROMs) with clients</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Values
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement - Proud to Care</li>
        
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            Qualifications and Training
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Doctoral Qualification in Clinical Psychology (or about to qualify)</li>
          
          <li>HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist or expected to be so (for candidates still to complete training)</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Additional training post-doctorate</li>
            
            <li>Training in a specific therapy: DBT</li>
            
            <li>Specific Training and/or accreditation in another evidenced-based therapy (e.g. CBT, IPT, Systemic)</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Personal Attributes
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to tolerate and manage highly distressing emotional issues</li>
          
          <li>Ability to manage and work with organisational stress and to effectively manage the stress of others</li>
          
          <li>Ability to engage in sustained mental effort involving tasks demanding intense concentration</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Valid driving licence</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Skills and Knowledge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Knowledge of appropriate psychological models of assessment, formulation and intervention for young people with mental health problems</li>
          
          <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills</li>
          
          <li>Research and evaluation skills</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Well-developed consultation skills with professionals</li>
            
            <li>Excellent formulation skills and able to convey complex ideas in straightforward, accessible style</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to work professionally and co-operatively in multi-disciplinary team.</li>
          
          <li>Experience in working with children, young people and families in a community setting.</li>
          
          <li>Experience and knowledge of working with young people with mental health problems.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of managing risk in clinical presentations.</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of engagement with clinical supervision.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>CAMHS specific experience</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with young people with neurodiversity</li>
            
            <li>Experience of identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns in clinical practice</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with people with complex trauma and attachment difficulties</li>
            
            <li>Contribution to service evaluations, projects or research in the mental health field</li>
            
            <li>Experience of supervising other clinicians</li>
            
            <li>Experience of some level of team or service development</li>
            
            <li>Supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists</li>
            
            <li>Experience of utilising/monitoring routine outcome measures (ROMs) with clients</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_5">
          
            Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Values
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement - Proud to Care</li>
          
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    <p>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.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>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 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>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. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
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      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        <p>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.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>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 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>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. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
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          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Chesterfield Royal Hospital</p>
      <p>Calow</p>
      <p>Chesterfield</p>
            <p>S44 5BL</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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          <p>Chesterfield Royal Hospital</p>
          <p>Calow</p>
          <p>Chesterfield</p>
                    <p>S44 5BL</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

NHS Jobs

Clinical Psychologist - CORE CAMHS

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><strong>Are you ready to take the next step in your mental health career and become a future leader in children and young people`s services?</strong> If you`re passionate about empowering young people to thrive and want to grow your practice in a truly supportive environment, this is your opportunity to shine.</p> <p>As a <strong>Trainee Supervising Practitioner</strong>, you will be part of our amazing&nbsp;<strong>Mental Health Support Team (MHST)</strong>, an innovative programme transforming how young people access early mental health support. Our MHSTs focus on <strong>prevention, early intervention and removing barriers</strong> that delay help and frustrate families.</p> <p>In this role, you will work closely with a wide range of professionals to ensure children and young people get the <strong>right support at the right time</strong>. You will develop your skills in <strong>CBT-informed supervision</strong>, supported by experienced clinicians and a dynamic, values-driven team committed to <strong>creativity, inclusion and continuous learning</strong>.</p> <p>We don`t believe in one-size-fits-all services. Our support is shaped by local voices, blending evidence-based practice with innovation and real-world need.</p> <p><strong>You will begin on a Band E salary, moving to Band F once your training course starts.</strong></p> <p><strong>This is more than a training role. It is a chance to lead, grow and make a real difference.</strong> <strong>If that sounds like your next move, we would love to hear from you.</strong></p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>You`re ready to commit to a&nbsp;<strong>demanding but deeply rewarding opportunity</strong>, combining&nbsp;<strong>postgraduate study with real-world clinical experience</strong>. You`re passionate about early intervention and ready to grow into a role that shapes the future of mental health support for children and young people.</p> <p>To succeed in this role, you will need:</p> <ul>  <li><strong>A core professional or clinical qualification</strong>&nbsp;(e.g. EMHP, PMHW, Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker)</li>  <li><strong>Evidence of continued professional development</strong></li>  <li>A&nbsp;<strong>Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision</strong>&nbsp;(or willingness to complete it during the role)</li>  <li><strong>Two years post-qualification experience</strong>&nbsp;working therapeutically with children and young people</li>  <li><strong>Experience of line management and/or delivering clinical supervision</strong></li>  <li><strong>CBT-informed supervision experience</strong>, ideally within education settings</li>  <li><strong>Experience in community and/or educational environments</strong></li>  <li><strong>Strong safeguarding and risk management skills</strong></li>  <li><strong>Excellent leadership, communication, and time management abilities</strong></li>  <li><strong>Flexibility to work year-round as part of a dynamic, responsive team</strong></li>  <li><strong>A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle</strong></li> </ul> <p>Desirable attributes include&nbsp;postgraduate therapeutic qualifications, mentorship experience, and prior leadership within children and young people`s services. Experience inducting staff or contributing to skill-mix teams is also beneficial, but not essential.</p> <p><strong>If you`re ready to lead, learn, and leave a lasting mark on young lives, this could be your next step.</strong></p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.</p> <p>All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.</p> <p>We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.</p> <p>We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.</p> <p><strong>Benefits</strong></p> <p>We offer a range of benefits including:</p> <ul>  <li>27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)</li>  <li>Life assurance at 2 x basic salary</li>  <li>Competitive contributory pension scheme</li>  <li>24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service</li>  <li>Enhanced sick pay</li>  <li>Excellent learning &amp; development opportunities and career progression</li>  <li>Annual performance/salary review</li> </ul> <p><strong>Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!</strong></p> <p><strong>Closing date</strong>:</p> <p><strong>Interview date</strong>:</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>03 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Other</p>

    
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £31,962 to £39,172 a year
      
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  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
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          Full-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>633</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>2nd Floor St Katherine’s House</p>
      <p>St Mary’s Wharf</p>
      <p>Derby</p>
      <p>Derbyshire</p>
      <p>DE1 3TQ</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><strong>Are you ready to take the next step in your mental health career and become a future leader in children and young people`s services?</strong> If you`re passionate about empowering young people to thrive and want to grow your practice in a truly supportive environment, this is your opportunity to shine.</p> <p>As a <strong>Trainee Supervising Practitioner</strong>, you will be part of our amazing&nbsp;<strong>Mental Health Support Team (MHST)</strong>, an innovative programme transforming how young people access early mental health support. Our MHSTs focus on <strong>prevention, early intervention and removing barriers</strong> that delay help and frustrate families.</p> <p>In this role, you will work closely with a wide range of professionals to ensure children and young people get the <strong>right support at the right time</strong>. You will develop your skills in <strong>CBT-informed supervision</strong>, supported by experienced clinicians and a dynamic, values-driven team committed to <strong>creativity, inclusion and continuous learning</strong>.</p> <p>We don`t believe in one-size-fits-all services. Our support is shaped by local voices, blending evidence-based practice with innovation and real-world need.</p> <p><strong>You will begin on a Band E salary, moving to Band F once your training course starts.</strong></p> <p><strong>This is more than a training role. It is a chance to lead, grow and make a real difference.</strong> <strong>If that sounds like your next move, we would love to hear from you.</strong></p>
  

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p><strong>Are you ready to take the next step in your mental health career and become a future leader in children and young people`s services?</strong> If you`re passionate about empowering young people to thrive and want to grow your practice in a truly supportive environment, this is your opportunity to shine.</p> <p>As a <strong>Trainee Supervising Practitioner</strong>, you will be part of our amazing&nbsp;<strong>Mental Health Support Team (MHST)</strong>, an innovative programme transforming how young people access early mental health support. Our MHSTs focus on <strong>prevention, early intervention and removing barriers</strong> that delay help and frustrate families.</p> <p>In this role, you will work closely with a wide range of professionals to ensure children and young people get the <strong>right support at the right time</strong>. You will develop your skills in <strong>CBT-informed supervision</strong>, supported by experienced clinicians and a dynamic, values-driven team committed to <strong>creativity, inclusion and continuous learning</strong>.</p> <p>We don`t believe in one-size-fits-all services. Our support is shaped by local voices, blending evidence-based practice with innovation and real-world need.</p> <p><strong>You will begin on a Band E salary, moving to Band F once your training course starts.</strong></p> <p><strong>This is more than a training role. It is a chance to lead, grow and make a real difference.</strong> <strong>If that sounds like your next move, we would love to hear from you.</strong></p>
    
  


      
  
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>BABCP/BPS Full membership registered professional with CBT degree (like EMHP)</li>
        
        <li>Or</li>
        
        <li>Core professional qualification (with registrations) relevant to mental health e.g. HCPC, NMC, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Psychotherapy, Art Therapy etc.</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of continued professional development</li>
        
        <li>Willingness to complete post Graduate Certificate in Supervision at University as required</li>
        
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          <li>Therapeutic post graduate qualification (preferably in CBT)</li>
          
          <li>Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline</li>
          
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          Experience
        
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        <li>1 years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of clinical development</li>
        
        <li>Collaborative working</li>
        
        <li>Experience of effective engagement with families and carers</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working in a multi- disciplinary team.</li>
        
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        <h4>Desirable</h4>
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          <li>Experience of providing mentorship</li>
          
          <li>Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision, ideally of practice related to education settings</li>
          
          </ul>
      
    
    
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          Additional Criteria
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures</li>
        
        <li>Planning workload, time management</li>
        
        <li>Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities</li>
        
        <li>Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets</li>
        
        <li>IT skills</li>
        
        <li>Team player and dynamic personality</li>
        
        <li>Multiagency/disciplinary working</li>
        
        <li>Excellent communication skills and able to relate to children and young people</li>
        
        <li>Innovate practice and ability to influence and motivate others</li>
        
        <li>Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention</li>
        
        <li>Visionary approach to managing change and transition</li>
        
        <li>Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable whilst being solution focussed and tenacious</li>
        
        <li>Has a strong degree of personal integrity</li>
        
        </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
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            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>BABCP/BPS Full membership registered professional with CBT degree (like EMHP)</li>
          
          <li>Or</li>
          
          <li>Core professional qualification (with registrations) relevant to mental health e.g. HCPC, NMC, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Psychotherapy, Art Therapy etc.</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of continued professional development</li>
          
          <li>Willingness to complete post Graduate Certificate in Supervision at University as required</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Therapeutic post graduate qualification (preferably in CBT)</li>
            
            <li>Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>1 years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of clinical development</li>
          
          <li>Collaborative working</li>
          
          <li>Experience of effective engagement with families and carers</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working in a multi- disciplinary team.</li>
          
          </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of providing mentorship</li>
            
            <li>Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision, ideally of practice related to education settings</li>
            
            </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Additional Criteria
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures</li>
          
          <li>Planning workload, time management</li>
          
          <li>Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities</li>
          
          <li>Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets</li>
          
          <li>IT skills</li>
          
          <li>Team player and dynamic personality</li>
          
          <li>Multiagency/disciplinary working</li>
          
          <li>Excellent communication skills and able to relate to children and young people</li>
          
          <li>Innovate practice and ability to influence and motivate others</li>
          
          <li>Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention</li>
          
          <li>Visionary approach to managing change and transition</li>
          
          <li>Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable whilst being solution focussed and tenacious</li>
          
          <li>Has a strong degree of personal integrity</li>
          
          </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>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.</p>
  

  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
    </p>
  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>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.</p>
      

      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Compass</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>2nd Floor St Katherine’s House</p>
      <p>St Mary’s Wharf</p>
      <p>Derby</p>
      <p>Derbyshire</p>
      <p>DE1 3TQ</p>
    
  

  
    <br>
    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.compass-uk.org/" target="_blank">https://www.compass-uk.org/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Compass</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>2nd Floor St Katherine’s House</p>
          <p>St Mary’s Wharf</p>
          <p>Derby</p>
          <p>Derbyshire</p>
          <p>DE1 3TQ</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.compass-uk.org/" target="_blank">https://www.compass-uk.org/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Trainee Supervising Practitioner

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>An exciting position has arisen within our Cannock Mental Health Support Team. We are looking for an experienced &amp; enthusiastic Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner.</p> <p>Youwill continue to build on the fantastic work carried out within your allocated schools. The role is varied &amp; no two days are the same, you may be setting up and delivering group work &amp; assemblies one day to delivering assessment &amp; interventions the next, as well assupportingschools to develop their whole school approaches to mental health &amp; wellbeing.</p> <p>You will be skilled &amp; experienced in conducting mental health assessments of children and young people (CYP) presenting with common mental health difficulties such as anxiety and low mood. You will conduct risk assessments &amp; identify the right level of support for CYP you come into contact with.</p> <p>Alongside the clinical aspect of your role, you will play an integral part in supporting schools with their whole school approaches. There is scope for creativity and opportunities to work alongside CYP &amp; parents/carers to drive the whole school approach agenda.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to be involved in an established team within the wider CAMHS structure, as a joint initiative between health &amp; education. You will work across the Staffordshire locality as well as supporting other MHSTs across South Staffordshire. You will work deliver parent, staff well-being, 1:1 &amp; group work sessions. </p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul>  <li>Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, working at all times in collaboration with and giving respect to the education function of the setting in which the post-holder is deployed.</li>  <li>Work in effective, evidence-based partnership with children, young people, their families and their educators in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.</li>  <li>Support and empower children, young people, their parents/carers and families and their educators to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.</li>  <li>Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity</li>  <li>Accept referrals within educational settings according to agreed local and national and local protocols</li>  <li>Undertake and record accurate assessments of risk and operate clear risk management processes in line with locally agreed procedures including the safeguarding protocols of the educational setting and Local Safeguarding Board guidance</li>  <li>Adhere to all regulations, processes and procedures within the educational service to which the post holder is attached within the educational setting where the post-holder working including (but not limited to) HR policies, training requirements, referral protocols, and emergency procedures. Signpost referrals of children with more complex needs to a locally identified appropriate service</li> </ul>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;</p>
<ul>
<li>Supporting your career development and progression</li>
<li>Excellent NHS Pension scheme</li>
<li>Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave</li>
<li>Options for flexible working</li>
<li>Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave</li>
<li>Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources</li>
<li>If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients</li>
<li>Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate</li>
<li>Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates</li>
<li>Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k</li>
<li>Free car parking at all trust sites</li>
<li>Free flu vaccinations every year</li>
<li>Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)</li>
</ul>
<p>And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.</p>
<p><strong>Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications</strong></p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>05 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 5</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £31,049 to £37,796 a year
      
        Per Annum, Pro Rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>301-VA-25-7445102</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Anglesey House</p>
      <p>Wheelhouse Road</p>
      <p>Rugeley</p>
            <p>WS15 1UL</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>For this role you must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner &amp; have obtained the relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment for Children &amp; Young People (C&amp;Y IAPT).</p> <p>For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>For this role you must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner &amp; have obtained the relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment for Children &amp; Young People (C&amp;Y IAPT).</p> <p>For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifcations &amp; Training
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.</li>
        
        <li>CYP Wellbeing Practitioner Training</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>A further relevant degree qualification</li>
          
          <li>Teaching qualification.</li>
          
          <li>Youth Mental Health First Aid trained.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with anxiety disorders.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy).</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with looked after children.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children &amp; families.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group</li>
        
        <li>Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Personal Attributes
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.</li>
        
        <li>Excellent oral and written communication skills.</li>
        
        <li>Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.</li>
        
        <li>Excellent time management and organisational skills.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Proven commitment to continuous professional development.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifcations &amp; Training
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.</li>
          
          <li>CYP Wellbeing Practitioner Training</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>A further relevant degree qualification</li>
            
            <li>Teaching qualification.</li>
            
            <li>Youth Mental Health First Aid trained.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with anxiety disorders.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy).</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with looked after children.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children &amp; families.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group</li>
          
          <li>Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Personal Attributes
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.</li>
          
          <li>Excellent oral and written communication skills.</li>
          
          <li>Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.</li>
          
          <li>Excellent time management and organisational skills.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Proven commitment to continuous professional development.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>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.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>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 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>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. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>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.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>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 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>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. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Anglesey House</p>
      <p>Wheelhouse Road</p>
      <p>Rugeley</p>
            <p>WS15 1UL</p>
    
  

  
    <br>
    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.mpft.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Anglesey House</p>
          <p>Wheelhouse Road</p>
          <p>Rugeley</p>
                    <p>WS15 1UL</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.mpft.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Education Mental Health Practitioner(EMHP)/Wellbeing Practitioner(CWP)

Whole School Approach Practitioner

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with mental health experience and experience of working with risk?</p><p>Would you like to join a dynamic team supporting the assessment and treatment of young people within LLR?

Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Outpatient Team have an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to apply for a Band 6 CPN/MHP Role within the dynamic and supportive CAMHS Outpatient Team.</p><p>The successful candidate will be a part of CAMHS Outpatients, the team offer assessments / risk management and stabilisation / therapeutic intervention to children and young people who are affected by moderate to severe mental health difficulties and / or Neurodiversity.</p><p>The successful candidate will work within a MDT to consider the most appropriate pathway options for the young people and children.</p><p>The team are dynamic and consistently evolving to be able to offer the best support / assessments and treatment to the young people and children that we serve.</p><p>Join an exciting and truly multi-disciplinary approach to the patient experience, working alongside Psychiatrists, Social workers, Mental health nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Health Care Support Workers and peer support workers all aiming to provide the best experience and quality care.</p><p>We offer flexible working with operating hours between 8am to 8pm Monday-Friday.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul><li>To work within a MDT offering a comprehensive initial and ongoing assessment/ risk management and stabilisation / treatment for the children and young people considering the family, mental health needs, risk and sign posting.</li><li>To work alongside / with the MDT to ascertain the most appropriate pathway and care
Liaison with other agencies.</li><li>Supporting student learning and shadowing opportunities.</li></ul><p><strong>Please note that this role requires your own transport or suitable alternative. Dependence on public transport is not suitable for this role.</strong></p><p>For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>27 August 2025</p>

  
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    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
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      <p>Band 6</p>
  
  

  
  
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      £38,682 to £46,580 a year
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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  <p>004562</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>The Valentine Centre</p>
      <p>Gorse Hill Hospital</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>Leicestershire</p>
      <p>LE7 7GX</p>
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    <p>Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust</p>
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      <p>The Valentine Centre</p>
      <p>Gorse Hill Hospital</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>Leicestershire</p>
      <p>LE7 7GX</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>The Valentine Centre</p>
          <p>Gorse Hill Hospital</p>
          <p>Leicester</p>
          <p>Leicestershire</p>
          <p>LE7 7GX</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/" target="_blank">https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner CAMHS Outpatients

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Here in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR), we are innovatively transforming ways of working with people with relational and emotional difficulties often described diagnostically as Personality Disorder.</p><p>As part of this, we are keen for another Principal Psychologist to join us in our secondary care psychologically-led dedicated provisionas a Clinical Lead.

The service has over 30 staff, including Psychologists, a Medical Psychotherapist, Peer Support Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. We offer a range of psychological and psychologically-informed approaches within the tradition of trauma-informed care, including Mentalization-Based Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, and a structured clinical management approach.</p><p>We would be very keen to hear from applicants with an interest and training in any of these approaches. We will support your training and continued professional development in these models to support your delivery of clinical leadership.</p><p>This post is full time but part-time will be considered.</p><p><strong>Interview date: </strong>3rd October 2025 - If you have been
shortlisted, we will contact you with further details.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>We are very pleased to be able to offer this new role to further enhance our services clinical leadership. The role will offer an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-disciplinary leadership team leading the ongoing transformation of the service. You will work alongside the Consultant Clinical Lead, other Clinical Leads, and Team Managers to lead this change; offering an exciting opportunity to enhance your strategic and clinical leadership skills.</p><p>With this new role, we aim not only to strengthen the delivery of our current offers, but we have a future aspiration to also expand their scope.

You will take a key clinical leadership role in the service alongside other Clinical Leads. You will be responsible for leading the implementation and delivery of psychological interventions, supported by the Consultant Psychologist Lead, who will offer professional, managerial, and clinical supervision.</p><p>The role will offer a variety of opportunities which will include clinical leadership, direct formulation and intervention, delivering training, service development, group and 1:1 clinical supervision and consultation to others, and service evaluation. There will be opportunities to shape the role and for continued professional development in areas relevant to service delivery and development.

</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>03 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 8b</p>
  
  

  
  
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    <p>
      £64,455 to £74,896 a year
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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          Full-time,
        
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>004567</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Francis Dixon Lodge, Gwendolen House</p>
      <p>Gwendolen Road</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>LE5 4QF</p>
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          Qualifications
        
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        <li>Please click onto Apply for this job and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification. </li>
        
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Please click onto Apply for this job and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification. </li>
        
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          <li>Please click onto Apply for this job and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification. </li>
          
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    <p>Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Francis Dixon Lodge, Gwendolen House</p>
      <p>Gwendolen Road</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>LE5 4QF</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust</p>
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          <p>Francis Dixon Lodge, Gwendolen House</p>
          <p>Gwendolen Road</p>
          <p>Leicester</p>
          <p>Leicester</p>
          <p>LE5 4QF</p>
        
      

      
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Principal Practitioner Psychologist 

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Highbury Hospital have exciting vacancies in the role of Peer Support Worker. These are on Rowan 1 and Redwood 1 (male), Redwood 2 (female) and Willows (male PICU).</p>
<p>As a Peer Support Worker you will use your experiences to offer understanding, support in linking with appropriate services/agencies, promote choice and to inspire hope and future opportunities to our inpatients.</p>
<p>As a Peer Support Worker, you will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. You will be supported, and are expected, to invest in your own personal and professional development as well as supporting ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust.</p>
<p>The value of lived experience in supporting this population of people is understood as an integral part of this service and huge value this adds to the support offered.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>As a Peer Support Worker you will use your experiences to offer understanding, support in linking with appropriate services/agencies, promote choice and to inspire hope and future opportunities. The role will include, offering support to carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community by enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well-being needs, in line with support plans and facilitating engagement with mainstream services. All work will be carried out under the supervision of the Team Manager</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.</p>
<p>We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.</p>
<p>We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.</p>
<p>The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.</p>
<p>The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>29 August 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
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      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
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    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
        per annum pro rata
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>186-1086-25-MH</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Highbury Hospital</p>
      <p>Highbury Road, Bulwell</p>
      <p>Nottingham</p>
            <p>NG69DR</p>
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    <p>To follow the policies of the ward environment and the peer support worker and bands 2-4 codes of conduct.</p> <p>To contribute to the development of peer support across the Trust by attending peer support development days and providing honest reflections and feedback on the peer support worker role where appropriate.</p> <p>The duties and responsibilities of the post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies and procedures and practices of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is the post holders responsibility to keep up to date with these policies and other documents</p> <p>The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. Peer workers will also be expected to invest in their own personal and professional development as well as supporting ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust.The peer support worker will work as part of the multidisciplinary inpatient team, offering support to people who have been admitted onto the ward</p> <p>Please note this post does not meet skill level required for a Skilled worker visa.</p> <p>Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker visa will usually need to be in a role which is at Band 3 or above, however please note not all Band 3 roles are capable of sponsorship. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining Sponsorship against the relevant skill and pay criteria here Immigration Rules - Immigration Rules Appendix Skilled Occupations - Guidance - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>)</p> <p>Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.</p> <p>You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>To follow the policies of the ward environment and the peer support worker and bands 2-4 codes of conduct.</p> <p>To contribute to the development of peer support across the Trust by attending peer support development days and providing honest reflections and feedback on the peer support worker role where appropriate.</p> <p>The duties and responsibilities of the post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies and procedures and practices of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is the post holders responsibility to keep up to date with these policies and other documents</p> <p>The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. Peer workers will also be expected to invest in their own personal and professional development as well as supporting ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust.The peer support worker will work as part of the multidisciplinary inpatient team, offering support to people who have been admitted onto the ward</p> <p>Please note this post does not meet skill level required for a Skilled worker visa.</p> <p>Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker visa will usually need to be in a role which is at Band 3 or above, however please note not all Band 3 roles are capable of sponsorship. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining Sponsorship against the relevant skill and pay criteria here Immigration Rules - Immigration Rules Appendix Skilled Occupations - Guidance - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>)</p> <p>Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.</p> <p>You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.</p>
    
  


      
  
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        <li>oLived experience of mental distress and recovery</li>
        
        <li>oExperience of being in a supportive and enabling role</li>
        
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          <li>oExperience of working in a healthcare setting</li>
          
          <li>oExperience of being supported by a community mental health team</li>
          
          <li>oExperience of working in a team</li>
          
          <li>oExperience of training, teaching, coaching/mentoring others</li>
          
          <li>oExperience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques</li>
          
          <li>oExperience of working across different organisational boundaries</li>
          
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        <li>Peer Support Worker Training</li>
        
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          <li>oLevel of educational attainment to NVQ 3/AS Level or equivalent</li>
          
          <li>oMental Health related qualification</li>
          
          <li>oCertificate in Community Mental Health or equivalent</li>
          
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          <li>oExperience of being in a supportive and enabling role</li>
          
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            <li>oExperience of being supported by a community mental health team</li>
            
            <li>oExperience of working in a team</li>
            
            <li>oExperience of training, teaching, coaching/mentoring others</li>
            
            <li>oExperience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques</li>
            
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            <li>oLevel of educational attainment to NVQ 3/AS Level or equivalent</li>
            
            <li>oMental Health related qualification</li>
            
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    <p>Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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      <p>Highbury Hospital</p>
      <p>Highbury Road, Bulwell</p>
      <p>Nottingham</p>
            <p>NG69DR</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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          <p>Highbury Hospital</p>
          <p>Highbury Road, Bulwell</p>
          <p>Nottingham</p>
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            <p><a href="https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Peer Support Worker

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Modality Partnership Nottingham Division has a full-time vacancy for a skilled and motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team working at Windmill Practice. The role is primarily based in practice, with some remote working likely as part of flexible service delivery.</p><p>We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is £46,000 per annum WTE.</p><p>This job is suitable for individuals who can demonstrate safe and effective patient interactions ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care whilst working alongside the wider nursing team and practice team.</p><p><strong>As an employee with us you can benefit from:</strong></p><p>Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme</p><p>Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata</p><p>Employee discounts and benefits scheme</p><p>Employee assistance programme (EAP)</p><p>Education and career pathways</p><p>Enhanced Family friendly policies</p><p>Flexible working</p><p>Wellbeing support and initiative</p><p>If you are interested in learning more, please read on.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>This is a hands-on patient facing role; we are seeking individuals to join our team who are caring, compassionate and confident. Applications are welcome from candidates with a background in mental health nursing, social work, allied health professions, or other relevant fields, with a proven ability to provide safe, effective, and person-centred mental health care.</p><p>This practice-based role enhances timely, holistic mental health care for our diverse inner-city population through a 'first contact mental health worker' model embedded within primary care. You will be a first contact mental health worker embedded in general practice, delivering holistic care through triage, assessment, brief interventions, and reviews. You will work autonomously while collaborating with GPs, PCN mental health colleagues and local services, improving access to mental health support for our diverse inner-city population of 22,000 patients. If you are passionate about improving mental health in primary care and want to be part of an innovative and supportive team, we would love to hear from you.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly within the healthcare team and support us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of skills in primary care with career advancing opportunities.</p><p>Modality Nottingham operates across Wellspring Surgery and Windmill Practice, serving a population of 22,000 patients in inner city Nottingham. We are committed to providing innovative, integrated, and patient-centred primary care. This role is central to enhancing access to mental health care across our practices.</p><p>All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.</p><p>Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>05 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Other</p>

    
  

  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
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      £46,000 a year
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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  <p>E0281-25-0153</p>
  

  
    
      
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        <p>The Windmill Practice</p>
      
      <p>Beaumont Street</p>
            <p>Nottingham</p>
            <p>NG2 4PJ</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.</p><p>You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.</p><p>If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.</p><p><em><strong>Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage</strong>.</em></p><p><strong>Pre-employment</strong></p><p><strong>Vaccinations</strong></p><p>As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.</p><p><strong>Right to work checks</strong></p><p>All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.</p><p><strong>Employment history</strong></p><p>You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.</p><p>You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.</p><p>If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.</p><p><em><strong>Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage</strong>.</em></p><p><strong>Pre-employment</strong></p><p><strong>Vaccinations</strong></p><p>As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.</p><p><strong>Right to work checks</strong></p><p>All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.</p><p><strong>Employment history</strong></p><p>You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Experience
        
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        <li>Experience working in general practice or primary care settings.</li>
        
        <li>Experience in developing group-based mental health services.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of delivering or contributing to hybrid or online mental health services.</li>
        
        <li>Experience in the assessment and management of people presenting with mental health needs.</li>
        
        <li>Proven ability to develop holistic management plans for patients.</li>
        
        <li>Experience delivering psycho-social interventions in mental health.</li>
        
        <li>Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding practices and processes.</li>
        
        <li>Have experience in acute mental health assessment and management.</li>
        
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          Personal Qualities
        
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        <li>Ability to travel between sites as required and work remotely where appropriate.</li>
        
        <li>Commitment to own professional development and reflective practice.</li>
        
        <li>Highly motivated.</li>
        
        <li>Flexibility.</li>
        
        <li>Enthusiasm.</li>
        
        <li>Team player.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work across boundaries.</li>
        
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        <li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to build therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to provide specialist clinical advice to GPs and colleagues.</li>
        
        <li>Effective time management and ability to work independently.</li>
        
        <li>Competent IT skills, with the ability to use clinical systems and digital tools.</li>
        
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        <li>Understanding of the social determinants of health and impact on mental wellbeing.</li>
        
        <li>Understanding of quality improvement processes in healthcare.</li>
        
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          <li>Experience working in general practice or primary care settings.</li>
          
          <li>Experience in developing group-based mental health services.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of delivering or contributing to hybrid or online mental health services.</li>
          
          <li>Experience in the assessment and management of people presenting with mental health needs.</li>
          
          <li>Proven ability to develop holistic management plans for patients.</li>
          
          <li>Experience delivering psycho-social interventions in mental health.</li>
          
          <li>Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding practices and processes.</li>
          
          <li>Have experience in acute mental health assessment and management.</li>
          
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            Personal Qualities
          
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          <li>Ability to travel between sites as required and work remotely where appropriate.</li>
          
          <li>Commitment to own professional development and reflective practice.</li>
          
          <li>Highly motivated.</li>
          
          <li>Flexibility.</li>
          
          <li>Enthusiasm.</li>
          
          <li>Team player.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work across boundaries.</li>
          
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            Qualifications
          
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          <li>Current professional registration with NMC, HCPC or other relevant UK professional body.</li>
          
          <li>Additional training in specific therapeutic interventions (CBT, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed approaches).</li>
          
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            Skills
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Ability to triage, assess and manage mental health presentations in a primary care or community setting.</li>
          
          <li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to build therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to provide specialist clinical advice to GPs and colleagues.</li>
          
          <li>Effective time management and ability to work independently.</li>
          
          <li>Competent IT skills, with the ability to use clinical systems and digital tools.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            Knowledge
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Awareness of local mental health pathways and community resources.</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of the social determinants of health and impact on mental wellbeing.</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of quality improvement processes in healthcare.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of AI-supported clinical tools and digital health innovation.</li>
          
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      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
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          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
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    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Modality Partnership</p>
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      <p>The Windmill Practice</p>
      
      <p>Beaumont Street</p>
            <p>Nottingham</p>
            <p>NG2 4PJ</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Modality Partnership</p>
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          <p>The Windmill Practice</p>
          
          <p>Beaumont Street</p>
                    <p>Nottingham</p>
                    <p>NG2 4PJ</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Mental Health Practitioner - Nottingham Division

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>We are looking to appoint a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to principally work at CAMHS The Beacon Inpatient Unit, and also to support the CAMHS Crisis Team at times when the number of young people occupying inpatient beds is below capacity.</p><p>The Beacon Inpatient CAMHS Unit is a 15-bedded facility based at the Bradgate Hospital site at Leicester Glenfield Hospital on the north side of Leicester.</p><p>For more information about CAMHS services in Leicester please click here:

<a href="https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/service/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-camhs/" target="_blank">https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/service/child-and-adolescent-mental-health…</a></p><p>You will be an experienced and qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with current UKCP registration and have experience of working with complex mental health needs in both inpatient and community services.</p><p>Ideally, you will have experience working with children and young people.

You will be joining a vibrant professional group of nine Family and Systemic Psychotherapists who work across a range of outpatient teams.</p><p>Systemic Supervision will be provided and in addition you will be able to join a family therapy clinic, working with another Family and Systemic Psychotherapist.</p><p>The team at The Beacon Unit currently consists of clinicians across a wide range of disciplines: Psychiatry, Psychology, Dietetics, Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy. Systemic Psychotherapy has been a valued and integral part of the team for many years. </p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Staff work closely with CAMHS Specialist Teams, Outpatient, Inpatient and Adult services, while also having connections with the wider MDT within the community.</p><p>We offer early specialist assessment and intervention using evidence-based approaches to young people up to the age of 18 years old and their families.</p><p>We are especially keen to hear from candidates who reflects the diverse communities we serve.</p><p>Some of the duties you will undertake within this role include:</p><ul><li>To undertake detailed &amp; highly specialist psychological and systemic assessments of children and families. This will involve face to face contact with young people and families.</li><li>To be responsible for offering Systemic Psychotherapy, utilising a range of systemic interventions to individuals and their families.</li><li>The provision of highly specialist one-to-one clinical consultations to other clinical staff, contributing directly to the formulation, diagnosis and intervention plans.</li></ul><p><strong>For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.</strong></p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.</p>


      
        
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  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>26 August 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
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      <p>Band 8a</p>
  
  

  
  
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      £55,960 to £62,682 a year
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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  <p>004168</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Beacon Unit,</p>
      <p>Glenfield Hospital</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>Leicestershire</p>
      <p>LE3 9EJ</p>
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    <p>Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust</p>
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      <p>Beacon Unit,</p>
      <p>Glenfield Hospital</p>
      <p>Leicester</p>
      <p>Leicestershire</p>
      <p>LE3 9EJ</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust</p>
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          <p>Beacon Unit,</p>
          <p>Glenfield Hospital</p>
          <p>Leicester</p>
          <p>Leicestershire</p>
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