Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Warrington CYPMHS offers an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to join our well‑established community team in Child and Young Person Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) in the Warrington Borough.

We are looking to appoint a permanent band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner you will be responsible for referral management, assessments, case management and therapeutic intervention for children and young people. The role supports the Thrive Programme and works closely with multi‑agency partners across Warrington, including CDC, educational institutions and third‑sector organisations.

• Provide high standards of evidence‑based, client‑centred care to children and young people with mental health problems within the THRIVE Framework.
• Manage own caseload and deliver clinical assessment and interventions to CYP, families and wider networks with complex mental health needs.
• Provide duty (referral management) support when required and participate in team duty rosters.
• Engage in urgent assessments and direct/indirect client work as part of the CYPMHS Multi‑disciplinary Team (MDT).
• Conduct risk assessments and develop care plans in line with the THRIVE framework.
• Screen referrals to CYP services and consult with other professionals.
• Organise multi‑agency meetings, coordinate care planning and risk management.
• Maintain clear electronic clinical records, ensuring data protection compliance.
• Use routine outcome measures in clinical practice and submit data to clinical records.
• Communicate effectively with children, young people, families and other professionals in skillful, sensitive manner.
• Attend Child Protection Case conferences and manage child protection issues following local safeguarding policies.
• Contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda and collaborate with partners across agencies.

• Hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work depending on clinical competence.
• Provide direct therapeutic interventions, including assessment, formulation and therapeutic input for children, young people and families.
• Undertake risk assessments and care plans in line with the THRIVE framework.
• Work sensitively with children, young people, families from diverse racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
• Exercise responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge of clients within supervisory structures.
• Deliver care coordination, manage risk, and ensure effective assessment, planning and care processes.
• Support the development and delivery of services to young people and their families.
• Maintain current knowledge of therapeutic modalities and collaborate across disciplines.

• Communicate assessment, formulation and treatment plans in both verbal and written form.
• Organise and facilitate multi‑agency meetings, reviews and case conferences.
• Provide and receive complex or contentious information sensitively.
• Work within an integrated multi‑professional team, ensuring strong working relationships.
• Provide written reports detailing progress of mental health intervention.

• Participate in supervision, reflective practice and continued development.
• Provide training to other professionals, improving mental health knowledge and skills.
• Deliver presentations to agencies, statutory and voluntary groups.
• Support training placements across professional disciplines.
• Assess trainee competencies and write placement reports.
• Maintain registration and accreditation as per professional bodies.
• Accountable for own clinical practice and professional behaviour.

• Identify priorities and advise managers on resource needs for service development.
• Contribute to evidence‑based practice through audits, evaluations, and recruitment processes.
• Support colleague workloads through co‑working practices and contribute to service developments.

• Stay up to date with evidence base in mental health interventions.
• Plan and implement system evaluations and monitoring of therapeutic practice.
• Particip…