Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner CAMHS - Weston Super Mare

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Two sites: Weston-super-Mare & Clevedn

In-house CPD training

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust's North Somerset child and adolescent mental health team is a well-established multidisciplinary service offering innovative approaches and extensive CPD opportunities across two sites in Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon.

The successful candidate will join the leadership team to assess and treat children, adolescents and families with complex mental health needs, with a preference for accredited CBT, EMDR or Family Therapy training.

Qualifications

• Accredited CBT/EMDR/Family Therapist preferred.
• Experience in clinical risk assessment and management with children and young people.
• Ability to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Carry out assessments and provide treatment for children and young people with complex mental health needs.
• Provide leadership within the team and collaborate with partner agencies.
• Support flexible working patterns and development opportunities.

Skills

CBT accreditation

EMDR

Family therapy

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Education

Accredited CBT/EMDR/Family Therapist

Job description

North Somerset child and adolescent mental health team is a well-established multi-disciplinary team. The team currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme.

We offer flexible working patterns and have the benefit of working across 2 sites in Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon.

The team also provides Eating Disorder & Learning Disability Services and so have the potential to offer development opportunities.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary, working as part of the leadership team to provide assessment, treatments for children, adolescents & their families with complex mental health needs.

We particularly welcome applications from accredited CBT/EMDR/Family Therapist or those who are coming up to accreditation.

We welcome calls/visits from prospective candidate to discuss in more detail, this opportunity, & what the team can offer.

WSM & Clevedon are thriving seaside towns within commuting distance to Bristol and Taunton. The M5 motorway within easy access.

WSM is a growing multi-cultural area with numerous amenities and has access to the beautiful coastline & also the Mendip Hills.

The area is ideal for those who like an active lifestyle but also who want to be within reach of Bristol and Taunton., To carry out assessments and provide treatment for young people presenting with significant mental health difficulties in the community.

To be highly skilled in clinical risk assessment and management in relation to children and young people including experience of managing self-injurious behaviour. To be able to develop and to implement and review risk management and safety plans collaboratively.

To be able to offer evidence based interventions to children, young people and families according to NICE guidance and local pathways of care.

To hold and to manage a case load and using resources creatively to provide excellent intervention for children, young people and families; uniquely tailoring therapeutic interventions to meet the needs of service users.

To be able to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as with the wider team and partner agencies within the North Somerset Team and the wider systems within a collaborative care model approach.

To work and provide leadership in the assessment and treatment within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.

To work with the team and the wider care system to deliver care which can positively impact on the welfare of the child.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

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.