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Job summary

Main area
Community Mental Health Practitioner
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week (Application of hours across the week to be discussed further.)
Job ref
380-CED057-A
Employer
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Canterbury CYPMHS George Turle House
Town
Canterbury
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/10/2026 23:59
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Multidisciplinary Pathway Worker

Band 6

 

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.

Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us

Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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Job overview

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, or qualified CYP-IAPT practitioner to join our Canterbury CYPMHS team as a Multidisciplinary Pathway Worker.

In this role, you will deliver high-quality clinical assessments, formulation, care planning, and evidence-based interventions for children and young people up to age 18 who present with emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and mental health needs.

You will manage an allocated caseload within structured CYPMHS pathways, combining autonomous clinical practice with multi-agency working alongside education, social care, primary care, and voluntary-sector partners. Supported by regular clinical supervision and a welcoming multidisciplinary team, you will contribute directly to high standards of care, safeguarding, and service improvement.

Main duties of the job

  • Clinical Assessment & Formulation: Undertake comprehensive assessments covering mental state, risk, safeguarding, and psychosocial needs to co-produce robust care plans and risk-management strategies with children, young people, and their families.

  • Evidence-Based Interventions: Manage an allocated caseload and deliver child-centred, family-focused interventions aligned with NICE guidelines and CYP-IAPT principles (such as CBT, Systemic Family Practice, psychoeducation, and parent support).

  • Outcome Monitoring: Use routine outcome measures to track therapeutic progress, review care plans, and ensure positive outcomes for service users.

  • Multi-Agency Collaboration: Partner effectively with local schools, GPs, paediatric teams, social services, and third-sector organisations to deliver integrated support.

  • Governance & Service Improvement: Participate actively in MDT meetings, clinical reviews, audits, safeguarding discussions, and service development initiatives.

  • Team Support & Clinical Administration: Maintain accurate, timely electronic clinical records while supporting junior colleagues, trainees, or students and engaging in continuous professional development.

Working for our organisation

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Experience & Skills: Demonstrable skill in risk assessment, formulation, and delivering evidence-based therapies to children and young people. Strong communication and multi-agency working abilities.

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification

Person specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential criteria
  • Successful completion of graduate training such as nursing, social work or occupational therapy, or equivalent substantial KMMH/CYPMHS clinical experience.
  • Active registration with your relevant regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC)
Desirable criteria
  • Additional post-qualification training relevant to children and young people’s mental health, risk assessment, neurodevelopmental needs, trauma informed practice or evidence-based psychological interventions.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, including complex, challenging or high-risk presentations.
  • Experience of carrying out assessment and delivering clinical interventions within a multi-disciplinary setting, including work with parents/carers, schools and partner agencies.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of CYP-IAPT informed practice, school-based assessment, community based assessment, group work, parent/carer interventions, or supervising junior staff / mental health workers.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Additional post-qualification training relevant to children and young people’s mental health, risk assessment, neurodevelopmental needs, trauma informed practice or evidence-based psychological interventions.
  • Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor, assess and respond to risk to ensure safety.
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people, safeguarding procedures and policies.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively about complex and sensitive clinical matters, verbally and in writing
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ayotunde Odukoya
Job title
Integrated Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07732904528

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