Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 411-COM-26-7855441
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
Band 8a
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
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This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Mental Health Practitioner to join the Liverpool Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
They will be a member of the specialist, multi-disciplinary service and will have case management responsibility for their case load and provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need.
The post holder may be required to provide support, advice and consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person.
We are looking for individuals who have an interest and experience in working with children in care, early years and learning disabilities.
We are also looking for individuals who have skills and experience in engaging families who are from communities that may be at increased risk of social exclusion or marginalisation.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialised CAMHS assessment and therapeutic interventions and to offer advice and consultation to other professionals across a range of agencies including: primary care, social care, and education.
The post holder will have clinical responsibility for complex therapeutic and risk management work with children and young people who have been assessed to require specialist CAMHS Intervention.
The services comprise of five multi-disciplinary teams including staff from varied backgrounds, including psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing and psychotherapy. In addition, our team members are trained in a wealth of different therapeutic interventions and approaches, making the teams truly multi-disciplinary.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey has already earned our place as one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, thanks to innovation and pioneering medical work. We treat 250,000 young patients a year and have a broad range of hospital and community services, serving the local population of children, as well as being a tertiary referral centre for children from across Merseyside, Cheshire and parts of Lancashire, Shropshire and North Wales.
We would welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as our ambition is that our workforce is fully reflective of the communities that we serve. Alder Hey is signed up to the disability confident scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications, Experience and Training
Essential criteria
- Core Profession + Registration
- Intermediate or diploma level in a recognised therapeutic modality.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Evidence of substantial post qualification competence, incorporating significant experience working within CAMHS at a senior level
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of providing consultation/teaching/ training
- Experience of working with children and young people, families and carers
- Experience of clinical supervision
- Experience of leading on developing, delivering and evaluating evidence based clinical care packages.
- Work as a member of the multi- disciplinary team.
- Network with other professional groups/agencies.
- Assertively engage young people, families and carers.
- Accept guidance and supervision from senior colleagues.
- Demonstrate leadership ability To be self-motivated and to work on one’s own initiative.
- To demonstrate a non- discriminatory attitude regarding race, gender and disability issues
- Demonstrate commitment to user participation
- Demonstrate a positive attitude
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post graduate qualification in Mental Health related field
- Experience of providing services across traditional services.
- Experience of managing and/or leading on service developments.
- Experience of managing staff.
- Project Management experience
- Effectively managing policy implementation and demonstrable service development work
Skills & Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates skills to contribute to modernisation across a range of diverse services
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to motivate and enthuse colleagues
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to respond effectively to multiple priorities
- Demonstrates the ability to make sound judgments and generate new ideas in complex situations.
- Able to work autonomously
- Committed to continuing professional development
- Accountable for own professional actions
- Works within professional ethics and Trust policies
Desirable criteria
- Good analytical and strategic visioning skills.
- Ability to build credibility quickly and sustain it within the organisation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sam Coppard
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 293 3662
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