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CYPMHS PractitionerNHS

Borehamwood or Watford, WD6 1WA Permanent £50,008 to £56,908
Posted 5 August 2026 Closing date 19 August 2026
Elstree & Borehamwood Rail Station (0.7 miles away) Parkhouse Bus Station (7.3 miles away)

Job summary

CYPMHS South Hertfordshire is seeking to recruit a highly skilled and motivated CYP Practitioner with an appropriate professional qualification and relevant experience to join our multi-disciplinary team.

This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week) offered on a permanent basis.

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high-quality care, making a significant contribution to the clinical and nursing input within the team. Responsibilities will include active participation in the referral and allocation process, undertaking assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions, risk management, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, and care coordination. The role also involves contributing to case discussions and wider service meetings.

In addition, the post holder will provide consultation and supervision to colleagues, students, and professionals within partner services.

Main duties of the job

  • To develop and provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions for service users, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities.
  • To deliver timely, accessible services through both clinic based and outreach models.
  • To provide highly specialist advice and consultation regarding formulations and treatment to colleagues, external agencies working autonomously within professional guidelines.
  • Care coordinate a caseload of service users delivering highly specialist assessments and integrated care.
  • Together with other team members to be responsible for developing nursing practice in the service including the supervision of both nursing colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines in the service.
  • To actively participate in supervision, appraisal and professional development to enhance clinical skills, e.g. nurse prescribing.
  • To chair/attend MDTs for all teams providing clinical sign off
  • To work collaboratively and provide nursing consultation to other relevant professions within HPFT and external agencies to build capacity in terms of the early identification and physical and psychological management of disorders and/or disability.
  • Totakealeadingroleforserviceinnovationand development,includingprojects with other junior staff to ensure delivery of safe effective nursing

Job description

Taking responsibility for making a significant contribution to the nursing input,participating fully in the referral and allocation process, assessments, treatment, riskmanagement, safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, care coordination ofservice users as well as contributing to case discussions and service-relatedmeetings.

Offering consultations and supervision to colleagues and students as well as staff inother services.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

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