Job Description

Passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people? Want to work as part of our dynamic community Early Intervention CAMHS service within a friendly, supportive, and creative multi-disciplinary team? Dedicated to providing high-quality advice, support and brief interventions to children and young people under 18 experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. Do you have a professional qualification in nursing, social worker, therapy or equivalent?
Suffolk Early Intervention CAMHS is looking to recruit Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, or Therapists to join us as Band 6 Primary Care Mental Health Worker (PMHW) in our Under 18 Wellbeing team on a part time basis.
It is an exciting time to join our service as we make the transition to a place-based approach (3 locality teams - East, Central and West Suffolk) working closely with partners across education, health, and social care.
The roles will be based in our East and Central localities.
Main duties of the job
The PMHW is a diverse and interesting role, working holistically within an MDT, alongside Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), Psychological Therapists and Counsellors. PMHWs:

• Offer consultation and training for schools and professionals
• Facilitate groups for parents and support delivery of therapeutic groups for children and young people
• Present webinars on children's mental health
• Undertake assessments and direct work with children, young people, and families, managing a caseload

This role provides you with many opportunities for learning about wider mental health issues for children, young and families and service pathways. You will need to have a good understanding of mental health difficulties, assessment, theoretical knowledge, and a range of therapeutic interventions.
About us
Suffolk Early Intervention CAMHS proactively seeks to provide opportunities to develop and enhance the clinical skills and practice of our team, enhancing direct work with children, young people and families . During induction, you will shadow colleagues undertaking assessments, facilitating groups, and providing consultation to schools and other agencies and professionals. Training and support will be provided to gain expertise in delivering an early intervention approach. You will also benefit from regular clinical and management supervision and in-house training on CBT and Systemic approaches.
Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

Details
Date posted
23 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
xc2xa337,338 to xc2xa344,962 a year pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
246-WSU7203565
Job locations
Ipswich
Ipswich
IP1 2GA
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work in collaboration with colleagues from health, education, social care teams, youth offending and the voluntary sector and this could include joint assessments with other professionals.
This post requires a core profession of: Nurse, Social Worker, Health Visitor or Occupational Therapist.
These roles will be based in Suffolk in our East and Central Localities you will be the named Primary Mental Health Worker for a group of schools within your locality. There is a need to travel across Suffolk for meetings and training.
Please find attached our and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work in collaboration with colleagues from health, education, social care teams, youth offending and the voluntary sector and this could include joint assessments with other professionals.
This post requires a core profession of: Nurse, Social Worker, Health Visitor or Occupational Therapist.
These roles will be based in Suffolk in our East and Central Localities you will be the named Primary Mental Health Worker for a group of schools within your locality. There is a need to travel across Suffolk for meetings and training.
Please find attached our and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Appropriate professional qualification e.g.; Registered Nurse on Parts 1, 3, 5 or 13 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register; Social Worker; Occupational therapist or other relevant professional qualification.

Experience
Essential

• Experience within Specialist CAMHS setting
• Clinical supervisory experience and willingness to provide clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation

Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of child and adolescent development, child and adolescent mental health disorders and knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions within the CAMHS speciality.
• Awareness of personal and professional responsibilities in regards to child protection and can demonstrate an understanding of child protection procedures and practice guidelines.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Appropriate professional qualification e.g.; Registered Nurse on Parts 1, 3, 5 or 13 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register; Social Worker; Occupational therapist or other relevant professional qualification.

Experience
Essential

• Experience within Specialist CAMHS setting
• Clinical supervisory experience and willingness to provide clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation

Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of child and adolescent development, child and adolescent mental health disorders and knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions within the CAMHS speciality.
• Awareness of personal and professional responsibilities in regards to child protection and can demonstrate an understanding of child protection procedures and practice guidelines.