Job summary We are looking for a passionate clinician to join our service and lead our CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team as Clinical Lead. We would want you to ensure excellent standards are upheld, and maintained within the team, and ensure the best use of available resources by delivering positive outcomes for individual service users and their families. We are looking for an experienced Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist or Registered Psychotherapist to join our team, and work alongside management to continue to support the development of the service across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The CIOT team are a really welcoming, sociable team working from a largely DBT, Systemic and trauma informed approach who foreground anti-oppressive practice in their work with young people as well as in our team culture. If this sounds like your area of expertise and you're looking for a new challenge where you can make a difference to delivery of mental health services, we would love to hear from you Main duties of the job To provide a highly specialist clinical assessment/treatment and consultation service to children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families who are referred to CAMHS intensive outreach team. This will be working with a shared caseload of young people who are at risk of admission to CAMHS inpatient unit, are unable to engage in community CAMHS interventions, are stepping down from a CAMHS Inpatient Unit or need intensive support with their mental health; for example OCD. To bring skills relating to DBT, CBT, or systemic approaches to Attachment/Trauma. You would be: - Supervising staff from a range of professional backgrounds - Offering in house training and staff development - Formulation and consultation to our network partners; Children's Social Care, Bristol Children's Hospital, Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead Hospital - Joining to offer specialist input to complex cases. - Supervising our well-established Family Therapy Clinic (if systemically trained) or contributing to the running of our newly established DBT Service and supervising trainee psychologists/APs if psychology. - Supporting the leadership team to think about service development. About us 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. AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services. 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. Date posted 01 April 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 8a Salary £53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata Contract Permanent Working pattern Part-time Reference number 342-CAMHS037-0425 Job locations Campbell House Montague Place Bristol BS2 8HR Job description Job responsibilities To provide a highly specialist clinical service to the specified Team/Service To provide a highly specialist clinical assessment/treatment and consultation service to children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families who are referred to CAMHS intensive outreach team. This will be working with a shared caseload of young people who are at risk of admission to CAMHS inpatient unit, are unable to engage in community CAMHS interventions, are stepping down from a CAMHS Inpatient Unit or need intensive support with their mental health; for example OCD or Eating Disorders. To bring skills relating to DBT, CBT, Trauma and Eating Disorders. To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients formulation and psychological management to other clinical and non-clinical colleagues To provide consultation and advice in area of specialism to colleagues in the team and other agencies. To regularly support with leading/facilitating formulations to support staff in identifying the most appropriate intervention for young people. To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to themore effective management of patients by the various teams in the area andwhere appropriate outside of the area. To provide psychologically informed reflective spaces for staff to be able to process traumatic incidences which may have impacted multiple members of the team in the form of cold de-briefs. The purpose of this is to support the wellbeing of staff as well as to help identify areas for service development. To clinically supervise clinical staff, trainees, lessexperienced staff, and other professionals. To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the areasserved by the Psychological Therapies Service. To support the CAMHS team with service evaluation and audit to include supporting the service in becoming more accessible and inclusive to the diverse local population served by this CAMHS team. To develop and deliver training in psychological assessment and therapies for multidisciplinary staff. To provide training as needed to other members of the multidisciplinary team on psychological assessment, formulation and treatment for young people in CAMHS. Job description Job responsibilities To provide a highly specialist clinical service to the specified Team/Service To provide a highly specialist clinical assessment/treatment and consultation service to children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families who are referred to CAMHS intensive outreach team. This will be working with a shared caseload of young people who are at risk of admission to CAMHS inpatient unit, are unable to engage in community CAMHS interventions, are stepping down from a CAMHS Inpatient Unit or need intensive support with their mental health; for example OCD or Eating Disorders. To bring skills relating to DBT, CBT, Trauma and Eating Disorders. To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients formulation and psychological management to other clinical and non-clinical colleagues To provide consultation and advice in area of specialism to colleagues in the team and other agencies. To regularly support with leading/facilitating formulations to support staff in identifying the most appropriate intervention for young people. To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to themore effective management of patients by the various teams in the area andwhere appropriate outside of the area. To provide psychologically informed reflective spaces for staff to be able to process traumatic incidences which may have impacted multiple members of the team in the form of cold de-briefs. The purpose of this is to support the wellbeing of staff as well as to help identify areas for service development. To clinically supervise clinical staff, trainees, lessexperienced staff, and other professionals. To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the areasserved by the Psychological Therapies Service. To support the CAMHS team with service evaluation and audit to include supporting the service in becoming more accessible and inclusive to the diverse local population served by this CAMHS team. To develop and deliver training in psychological assessment and therapies for multidisciplinary staff. To provide training as needed to other members of the multidisciplinary team on psychological assessment, formulation and treatment for young people in CAMHS. Person Specification Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills Essential This role requires a post-graduate qualified Clinical Psychologist / Family Therapist, registered with their appropriate professional bodies and has at least two years' experience in delivering mental health interventions in a CAMHS (or similar child and adolescent mental health) setting For Family Therapy/Systemic Psychotherapist posts Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise and be able to take a lead role on the provision of a high quality specialist Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy provision (including consultation, assessment and therapeutic intervention). Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs. This will include significant experience of working with positive risk management and demonstrating the ability to communicate this effectively with partner agencies. Demonstrate extensive experience and expertise regarding delivering CAMHS clinical supervision and consultation to a range of staff. Clinical supervisor qualification/training/accreditation. Desirable Profession specific additional qualifications Person Specification Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills Essential This role requires a post-graduate qualified Clinical Psychologist / Family Therapist, registered with their appropriate professional bodies and has at least two years' experience in delivering mental health interventions in a CAMHS (or similar child and adolescent mental health) setting For Family Therapy/Systemic Psychotherapist posts Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise and be able to take a lead role on the provision of a high quality specialist Systemic Psychotherapy/Family Therapy provision (including consultation, assessment and therapeutic intervention). Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs. This will include significant experience of working with positive risk management and demonstrating the ability to communicate this effectively with partner agencies. Demonstrate extensive experience and expertise regarding delivering CAMHS clinical supervision and consultation to a range of staff. Clinical supervisor qualification/training/accreditation. Desirable Profession specific additional qualifications Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Address Campbell House Montague Place Bristol BS2 8HR Employer's website http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)