Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Specialised Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-CAMHS077-0624
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bristol and South Gloucestershire
- Town
- Bristol and South Gloucestershire
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8a Children in Care Highly Specialist Mental Health Clinician
Band 8a
Job overview
Two exciting opportunities have arisen for Highly Specialist Mental Health Clinicians in the Children in Care Specialist CAMHS Service in AWP, based in South Gloucestershire (Thinking Aloud) and Bristol (Thinking Allowed); two well established services with a reputation for working with children and young people who have experienced multiple adversities. The service comprises small supportive, energetic and creative teams and post-holders will provide clinically effective interventions for the adult network and young people. These posts will work closely with the Clinical Lead for Children in Care in AWP and the AWP Specialist Services Manager and work alongside AWP’s core CAMHS Services and also in partnership with Social Care and Education.
The post holders are senior clinicians for the Children in Care CAMHS specialist services within Bristol and South Gloucestershire and are expected to be a significant clinical resource across the Trust.
Both posts are for 3 days a week. If you are passionate about supporting young people with experiences of developmental trauma and believe in the difference that can be made by supporting a multi-disciplinary system to understand and recognise the impact of trauma, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a highly specialist clinical assessment, treatment and consultation service for Children in Care in Bristol and South Gloucestershire and adopted in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, and to work with the wider care systems which impact on the welfare of the child.
- To engage in Bristol and South Gloucestershire-wide clinical networking.
- Join with AWP Children in Care Clinical Lead and AWP Specialist Services Manager to promote clinical governance, service improvement and effective team functioning.
- To attend Service and Team Meetings, CAMHS and Trust Wide as appropriate.
- To contribute to relevant CAMHS, Trust and Cross-agency working groups.
- To assist management in staff recruitment, retention and provide staff supervision and line management.
- To participate in clinical supervision to conform with clinical risk management requirements and professional registration.
- To participate in audit activity and, when requested lead audit activity within the multi-disciplinary team.
- To participate in the annual appraisal process.
- To be responsible for own workload, and engage with professional practice supervision and caseload review through the management process.
- To attend meetings with Legal Services and Court representatives as appropriate.
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
The detailed job description and main responsibilities for the roles are in the attached Job description and Person Specification and please see these for full details.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- A qualification in Social work, Mental Health Nursing, or Mental Health profession and currently registered with the national professional body appropriate to their training and qualifications
- Post qualification CPD in relevant therapeutic models of care, e.g., CBT for trauma, DDP, DBT
- Thorough understanding of the consequences of abuse and neglect and of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Desirable criteria
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with members of other professions.
- Ability to write reports and give verbal reports required for case planning and review meetings as well as ability to work directly in discussions and consultation with carers, social workers and other professionals about cases not yet referred.
Knowledge and Expereince
Essential criteria
- Significant post-qualification experience in the assessment and intervention working with Children in Care and their adult networks
- Extensive experience of multi-agency working.
- Thorough understanding of the consequences of abuse and neglect and of Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Extensive experience in providing emotional health services to families, parents, adolescents and young children, including Foster and Adoptive Families.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of offering Clinical Supervision
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with members of other professions.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates good communication and interpersonal skills with Children, families and collegues
- Ability to present coherent, well written clinical reports of a variety of purposes
- Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times
- Evidence of excellent team working with examples.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to offer flexible and creative work with children, young people and their families
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Samantha Phillips
- Job title
- AWP Clinical Lead for Children In Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 3408600
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