Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
Main area Are you a qualified health professional – Nurse, OT, Social Worker, CWP or EMHP with CAMHS experience? Are you ready to take your next step into a leadership role? Would you like to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Low Intensity Supervision Training (LIST)? If yes, then this may be the right job for you and we are really keen to meet you. This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Mental Health Support Team (MHST). We work across the city of Birmingham and Solihull to support young people and their families who may be facing mental and emotional health issues.
Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Job ref 436-8001263
Site MHST at Touchbase Pears Town Selly Oak, Birmingham Salary £39,959 – £48,117 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/06/2026 23:59 Interview date 22/06/2026
Main duties of the job
The Mental Health Support Team is an early intervention service, working with children, young people, and their families with mild to moderate mental health needs within Birmingham and Solihull.
The team is comprised of a range of different clinicians, all working together to support young people as early as possible, to prevent their needs escalating and having a long term impact on their wellbeing.
We have 3 core functions:
- To deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues.
- Support the senior mental health lead in each school or college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach and,
- Give timely advice to school and college staff and liaise with external specialist service to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
A typical clinical day may involve delivering assemblies and workshops to a primary and secondary schools and further education settings. You may then travel to health centers, homes or education settings to deliver some one-to-one or a group session of low intensity CBT intervention. You may then facilitate supervision, plan/create resources and help lead team meetings. Travel across the Birmingham and Solihull area is expected. Throughout the day there will be good access to support and connection from your colleagues.
Person specification
training and experience
- RMN or RLDN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, RN or RCN with substantial CAMHS experience, Qualified CWP or Qualified EMHP
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience of working with children and young people’s mental and emotional health needs.
- Experience of assessing the mental health needs of children/young people in a community or inpatient setting.
- Experience in engaging diverse or hard to reach populations
- Experience within education/social care
- Leadership or management experience
Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your second week with us.
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.
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