Main area CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 6 Contract 12 months (cover mat leave through fixed term contract or acting up/secondment)
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Flexible working requests in operational hours can be considered)
Job ref 342-CAMHS034-0325
Employer Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Kingswood Hub
Town Bristol
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 02/04/2025 23:59
Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos
Job overview
We are looking for motivated clinician to work full-time in South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team, based in Kingswood and Patchway Hubs. This is a 12 month fixed term (or acting up/secondment with authorization from your line manager) to cover maternity leave.
You will be appropriately qualified (Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Family Therapist, Accredited CBT therapist) and have appropriate professional registration. You will need to demonstrate that you have experience of holding your own caseload including risk assessment and management of complex and enduring mental health needs. Preferably from working within a community CAMHS service but may also include significant experience within other similar services such as adult mental health.
We are a supportive, experienced and progressive multi-disciplinary team. We offer individual, family and group interventions. You will have the opportunity to develop skills assessing children, young people and families and ensuring they receive evidence based and effective interventions in a timely manner.
South Gloucestershire CAMHS has radically transformed in recent years including broad team skill mix and opportunities for staff development and innovative practice. An example of this is producing professionally filmed videos to provide an online group for young people with emotional dysregulation. We strive to provide compassionate leadership as we recognize the importance of staff well-being.
Main duties of the job
To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.
To work with and support the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.
To contribute to the rota/duty system providing telephone support and advice to young people, carers and professionals who are open to South Gloucestershire CAMHS.
Where required, contribute to the CAMHS Getting Advice team to support in triaging referrals made to the wider CAMHS service.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To carry out assessments of a child or young person’s mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.
To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.
To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.
To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.
Person specification
Qualifications/ registration
* Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
* To maintain professional registration
* Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.
Knowledge
* Experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents
* Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people. Including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
* Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines
Skills
* Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their relatives.
* Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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.
Name Michelle Blackler Job title South Glos CAMHS Clinical Service Manager Email address m.blackler@nhs.net Telephone number 01454862431 Additional information
Or Barbara Shannon, Team Manager on 01454 862 431
We welcome potential applicants to make contact to discuss the opportunities of this role prior to submitting an application and/or if offered an interview.
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