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Location
Yeovil
Contract
Full Time
Role Type
Permanent
Working hours per week
40
Salary
Up to £45,000 per annum
Closing Date
Tuesday 30 September 2025
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum
Part Time/Full Time: up to 40 hours per week
Location: Lufton College, Yeovil
Would you like to be part of a rapidly developing service committed to improving the lives of children and young people and their families?
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Lufton College, Yeovil and we are now recruiting for a dedicated passionate individual to join our clinical team as the Senior Mental Health Practitioner. This is a new role at the college to support students mental and emotional health.
Cambian Lufton College is rated ‘Good’ in all areas from Ofsted in 2024, the college is an independent provider of specialist further education and residential care in the South West, and part of the Care-Tec group. We offer day and residential placements for young people aged 16 to 25 years, and typically support students who have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, moderate to severe learning disabilities and a range of behaviour, emotional and complex needs (including medical). Students will have an Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP) reflecting their learning disability and assessed support needs. The College is registered with both the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Ofsted that undertake regular and rigorous inspections in addition to our own internal quality assurance processes.
Our teams of highly skilled education, care and clinical staff deliver an outstanding personal, social and vocational experience that is tailored to meet the individual needs and wants of our students. The College focusses upon preparing young people for adulthood by equipping them with a toolkit for life after college. We take immense pride in our commitment to delivering quality learning through person-centred programmes that are supported by a range of therapeutic professionals and partnerships with other local education providers and employers.
Job Role
We are looking for a creative, dynamic and enthusiastic individual to work collaboratively within our wellbeing clinical team which consists of a Consultant Psychiatrist, Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Holistic therapist, School Nurse and Integrated Therapy assistants. The role will require you to draw upon your knowledge of working with complex young people and adults, to support the emotional and mental health needs of our learners through either direct or indirect therapeutic interventions and by sharing your knowledge, experience and expertise through work-shops and training for our care and education team.
Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention Opportunities;
Main duties of the job
The Post Holder Will
Provide mental health triage, including basic assessments and clinical interventions based on NICE guidance within the college to support students.
To review and meet EHCP statemented needs of students.
Support the psychiatrist with the management of students presenting with emotional or Mental health problems.
Support students presenting in ‘crisis’, modelling good practice and providing short term interventions, where possible, share this practice with care and education teams to promote self-management.
To be the link role between the care, education and wellbeing teams with external agencies for mental and emotional wellbeing.
Co facilitate groups for students in promoting good mental and emotional health.
Manage your own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team, and wide care and education provision.
Attend multi-disciplinary and multi- agency meetings for our young people, where appropriate.
Contribute to reports for young people’s progress at annual review and interim reviews.
There may be an opportunity to supervise other Mental Health Practitioners, Healthcare Students and Assistants.
The successful candidate must be confident, able to work autonomously have a passion to work with young people and have a strong working knowledge in supporting complex mental health. You will have a proven knowledge in risk assessment/management strategies and be an effective verbal and written communicator.
We are looking for Senior Mental Health Practitioner or who is either registered with the NMC (RMN/RLDN) or HCPC
Essential
Minimal 2 years’ experience
RMN / RNLD/ HCPC
Experience in CAMHS (community or in-patient services) or Education settings
Be person centred and have a commitment to delivering high quality evidence-based care
Good decision-making skills
Excellent organisational capacity
Effective communication skills
Be autonomous in practice
Beneficial
Providing consultation to groups
Leading/teaching workshops to peers
Managerial experience
Working with people who have Autism Spectrum Disorder/Challenging behaviours
Working with people who have learning difficulties.
In Return We Will Give You
A competitive salary
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - pro rata for part time (increasing after 2 years)
Enhanced disclosure cost covered by Cambian
Free onsite parking
Paid lunch break – and free meals when on duty
Online benefits and cashback rewards
Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing training
Successful candidates will have to meet the person specification in order to be offered this post. Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks. Cambian is an equal opportunities employer.
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