Band 6 CAMHS clinician

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health organization in Bristol is seeking an experienced Band 6 CAMHS clinician to join their Intensive Outreach team. In this role, you will support young people and their families through mental health crises, conducting assessments and delivering high-quality evidence-based interventions. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure the best care outcomes for young individuals facing emotional and behavioral challenges. The position offers diverse working arrangements across various localities.

Qualifications

• Experience in assessing and delivering care for young people in mental health crises.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong understanding of evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive mental health needs assessments.
• Work with teams to develop treatment options for young people.
• Maintain relationships with community and specialist CAMHS services.
• Provide intensive support for high-risk young people in the community.
• Deliver learning opportunities for team members in mental health care.

Skills

Experience with mental health crises

Evidence-based intervention

Collaborative working

Strong communication skills

Education

Degree in relevant field

ASYE completed if newly qualified

Job description

Are you an experienced CAMHS clinician looking for a new opportunity and are passionate about working with young people and their carers. To make a positive difference with supporting our families through a mental health crisis and ensuring they have the best possible patient experience and care.

Can you work with children, young people, their families and carers, providing evidence-based intervention in an intensive outreach team? We are looking for a Band 6 CAMHS clinician to work in the Intensive Outreach team. We are looking for a suitable candidate who can bring skills, experience and enthusiasm to meet the needs of children/young people with complex social, emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental and mental health needs.

In this important role, you will use your extensive skills and experience as a mental health practitioner to deliver high quality care, developing and sustaining relationships across agencies and working as a core member of a multi‑disciplinary team. Using both evidence‑based practice and routine outcome measures, you will use a strength‑based approach to work collaboratively with service users, in line with CYP‑IAPT key principles.

We are a progressive and dynamic service that work using evidence‑based therapeutic treatments and approaches but also foreground anti‑oppressive practice and diversity and equality as part of our daily working.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be involved in working within the CAMHS hospital team care pathway, assessing young people that present to an acute hospital and are experiencing a mental health crisis. Clinicians will be expected to undertake a comprehensive mental health needs assessment and be able to identify the forward care pathways for the young person and their carer(s).
• We work across all localities including North Bristol, East & Central Bristol, South Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, and aim to build strong working relationships with all of these services. We cover a 7‑day period working a number of shifts. These are 8-4pm, 12-8pm and 4pm until midnight and weekend working.
• A proportion of the role will involve working in conjunction with colleagues in the multi‑disciplinary team to identify care and treatment options which enable service users to remain within their existing support/care pathways and maintain their community tenure, signposting to other services to meet their needs.
• The post holder will maintain close working relationships with Community and specialist CAMHS services, Adult Community Mental Health Teams as well as the Acute Hospital Services. Day to day leadership on service delivery and development will be provided by the Team Manager, along with senior clinicians as will caseload and management supervision, provision of rapid access to specialist CAMHS advice and support and to enable referrers to deal more effectively with a range of mental health problems.
• Management of high risk young people in the community through intensive support.
• Increased detection of mental health problems/needs with improved care, treatment and promotion of improved understanding of and confidence in the delivery of mental health care and collaboration with all agencies involved in the care of young people and families.
• Provision of targeted formal and informal learning opportunities for all staff within the primary care teams to develop their knowledge and capabilities within the mental health component of holistic care.
• Provision of information sign‑posting and support for young people and families.

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.

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.