Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary
The New Forest CAMHS team are seeking a full time Mental Health Practitioner to join the already well established and supportive team. We invite applications at Band 6 level or as a developmental Band 5/6. We will provide opportunities and support you to achieve this in a timeframe that is right for you based on your prior experience and achievements of competencies.

The team is passionate about working with children and young people and providing the best evidence-based practice to support them to improve their mental health and progress with hope for the future. We are made up of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) of innovative and dynamic clinicians who have worked hard to find new ways of providing clinical care to the young people they work with. You will work within a team with a passion for delivering high quality clinical assessment and interventions and that keep the young person and their family at the heart of the work we do. Hampshire CAMHS has established care pathways which you will work across, including both supporting neurodevelopmental assessments and individual and group therapeutic work.

Our service is proud to support people in their career journey offering development and training opportunities to enhance clinical practice. We would love to hear from you if you wish to be part of our team and make a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.

Main duties of the job
You will work in partnership with children, young people (CYP) and their families to deliver high quality assessments and evidence based interventions for those presenting with complex mental health needs. Using your specialist skills, you will complete initial assessments, contribute to duty system responsibilities, develop collaborative care plans, and deliver both one to one and group interventions. You will also support neurodevelopmental assessments and contribute to the ongoing development of the team and wider service, including supervising and mentoring colleagues and students.

You will demonstrate a strong understanding of clinical interventions relevant to CYP and work closely with carers, families and partner agencies to facilitate these effectively. At all times, you will promote the safety, wellbeing and recovery of CYP and their families.

The role involves supporting young people across a broad range of clinical pathways and working closely with clinicians from services including the Single Point of Access, Early Help, Urgent Assessment and Home Treatment (i2i), Eating Disorders, and others to ensure coordinated and high quality care.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details
Date posted: 06 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 348-CFS-12152
Job locations: Totton Health Centre, Testwood Lane, Totton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 3ZN, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Current professional registration with an approved professional body (NMC, HCPC, Social Work England)
• Or evidence of having achieved and completed the Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSA) KSA portfolio route to BABCP Accreditation with current accreditation of the BABCP).
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience
Essential

• Post qualifying experience in the relevant care group.
• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of managing a caseload
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Previous experience of working in the community

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Totton Health Centre, Testwood Lane, Totton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 3ZN, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Hiring Manager, Ellie Griffiths, eleanor.griffiths9@nhs.net

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.