Senior Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner

Join Young Minds Matter, Navigos Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and help make a real difference to the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people, and families across North East Lincolnshire. We are recruiting to three exciting practitioner roles: supporting children and families in kinship care arrangements, acting as a link worker with the Complex Emotional Needs Service, and delivering interventions within Core CAMHS. You will join a supportive, multidisciplinary team that values collaboration, innovation, staff wellbeing, and professional development, with access to excellent supervision, training opportunities, and a modern, welcoming working environment.

Responsibilities

Support children and young people living in kinship care arrangements, working closely with carers, families, and partner agencies; Act as a key worker for young people with complex emotional needs, supporting engagement in therapeutic interventions, coordinating care, working with families, and facilitating transitions to adult services; Assess, formulate, and deliver evidence-based interventions for a range of mental health difficulties; Provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning; Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies; Empower children, young people and their families/carers to influence and use available services, information and skills; Provide full assessment and appropriate follow up care via care planning and clinical pathways; Provide therapeutic interventions within relevant care pathways and within defined waiting times; Provide an extended hours service, as required; Participate in screening of referrals and in planning, delivery and evaluation of group interventions; Provide support, advice, consultation and training to partnership agencies; Work in accordance with relevant childcare, health legislation and professional standards; Proactively involve young people and families in service development; Ensure best practice by incorporating NICE guidance and meeting healthcare standards; Develop and maintain sensitive, complex and contentious communication with other teams and external agencies

Requirements

RNMH / RNLD / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist or equivalent with current professional registration; Or RN (child) / RSCN with evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice; Relevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with severe and enduring mental ill health; Experience of using evidence-based practice; Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties; Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes; Current UK professional registration; Disclosure and Barring Service check required

Nice to have

Post registration experience of assessing, formulating, and treating children and young people presenting with mental health needs; Additional therapy qualification (e.g., DBT, CBT, EMDR, family therapy or systemic practice)

Benefits

Excellent supervision; Training opportunities; Modern, welcoming working environment