Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People's Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 325-7365552-CYPS
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CYPS Early Help Team Northeast Hampshire, Aldershot Centre for Health
- Town
- Aldershot
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 incl 5% fringe HCAS pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner? Do you want to join our thriving Early Help Team as part of our Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), now known as Children and Young People's Services (CYPS)? Are you passionate about delivering excellent care to our young people and their families? If yes, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Our CYPS Early Help Team are highly supportive, friendly and innovative. As part of our i-THRVE framework, this team is focused on Advice & Signposting, and Getting help. You would join a strong multidisciplinary team offering assessments and interventions to children and young people experiencing psychological distress as well as providing support for the Clinic Duty System.
In addition, the role could provide opportunities within our neurodevelopment team if Autism Spectrum Condition/ADHD was a specialist interest of yours.
We are seeking those professionally registered with NMC, HCPC or SWE and have significant experience of working with under 18yr olds.
Main duties of the job
My job makes better lives by providing timely interventions that contribute to the care of young people with mental health problems and their families. I will put the experience of the CYP using the service at the centre of my decision making whilst building a supportive and responsive relationship with colleagues.
- Mental Health Assessments
- Risk Assessment and implementation of risk management plans
- Delivering evidenced based Group interventions
- Use of outcome measures to evidence good practice
- Supervise and support students nurses
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work in partnership with young people, families/carers regarding decision making and planning to help them to make informed decisions, to enable them to clarify and express their needs and to co-produce solutions.
Please see the Job Description for further details of responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or diploma level qualification in Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work
- Registered professional with current registration, appropriate to the job role (NMC, HCPC or SWE)
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2-year post qualification experience of working in the community with young people with mental health difficulties and their families
- Experience and ability to undertake Mental Health Assessments, Risk Assessments and use outcome measures to evidence good practice
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
- Jo Hilton
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01252335600
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