Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - North Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 16 April 2025

Job summary

We are looking for 12 month maternity cover to the Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner role within the North Bristol CAMHS team.

We are a service working with children and young people with complex mental health needs. We use the CAPA model of assessment and treatment, which would involve working with a variety of clinical presentations and needs, including: suicidal thoughts, low mood, anxiety, OCD and emerging psychosis, often alongside neurodiversity. We also have a lot of referrals for young people with disordered eating and diagnosed Eating Disorders, and there are opportunities to work within this clinic if this is something you are interested in.

We are looking for a practitioner with a core professional registration, including registered nurses, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, art therapists and CBT therapists.

North Bristol is an area of significant disparities in health, wealth and access. We are committed to working in a manner which is inclusive and anti-oppressive, and invite applications from staff who share these values.

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 North Bristol CAMHS.

Where required, contribute to the CAMHS Getting Advice team to support in triaging referrals made to the wider CAMHS service.

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSW's are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

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.

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 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

342-CAMHS036-0425

Job locations

Woodland View

Thornfield Road

Bristol

BS10 6NB

Job description

Job responsibilities

To carry out assessments of a child or young persons 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.

Please see attached job description for further details.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To carry out assessments of a child or young persons 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.

Please see attached job description for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ registration

Essential

Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
To maintain professional registration

Desirable

Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.

Knowledge

Essential

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

Essential

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

Person Specification

Qualifications/ registration

Essential

Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
To maintain professional registration

Desirable

Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.

Knowledge

Essential

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

Essential

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

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.