Permanent: Full Time/ 40 Hours
Location: Covering Hereford, Worcester, Powys & West Midlands.
Cambian Group, the UK’s largest provider of specialist services in children’s residential care, education, mental health rehabilitation and learning disabilities, is looking for a dedicated individual to join the company as a Mental Health Practitioner. The post will require someone with previous experience of working in residentials and CAMHS settings, specifically within Looked After Children’s services and being familiar with consultation model as service delivery.
Job Role
We are seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to embed a trauma-informed approach, working across our complex care community residential services, with young people displaying social, emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.
If you’ve got excellent assessment skills and strong therapeutic consultation experiences gained in a Residential setting or working with Looked After Children, we can offer you a rewarding role with a difference.
Our teams are fully committed to Cambian’s vision. They understand the challenges and rewards of working with our young people and know that every day they will achieve things that really matter.
This is no ordinary role. The pace is fast. There’s lots of variety. You shall be spending most of your time out in the field and you’ll need to be able to provide a therapeutic service to young people placed within community residential settings. You will be providing specialist assessments of children and young people’s needs, including formulating and implementing plans of therapeutic intervention/management of our children and young people’s presentations to embed a trauma-informed approaches and psychological understanding the difficulties within the current evidence-based practice. This role will ensure our young people receive timely support to in both the school and home setting to help support them with the trauma they have experienced and to enable them to make safe, confident and independent decisions in the future.
Offering lots of autonomy, your role will involve assessing and identifying the needs to our young people and staff by meeting them through consultation/training and reflective practice.
Further duties are described in the attached Job Description.
Candidate Profile
Registered with the relevant professional organisation (HCPC, NMC, BACP)

Please refer the Job description for details