Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - North Somerset

Job overview

North Somerset CAMHS Eating Disorder Team is a well-established multi-disciplinary team, which is continuing to grow due to new investment.

The service is committed to continuous improvement and providing accessible and flexible, therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families.

We are a busy, forward thinking team who are interested in supporting a positive team culture and good team wellbeing.

We are recruiting a Senior Mental Health Practitioner who is wanting to develop their leadership skills alongside their clinical work.

We are looking for someone who is interested in helping with daily co-ordination of the service, supporting service development, participating and leading supervisions, reflective practice and MDT meetings.

This role will be working alongside the Systemic Family Therapist (Lead for Eating Disorders in North Somerset), Consultant Psychiatrist and Eating Disorders Clinicians to deliver an outstanding service for the families within North Somerset, as well CORE CAMHS to support the wider service.

The role will include facilitating assessments and delivering treatment for families who come into the service. North Somerset Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team (CAMHS) currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will join the multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of clinical assessment and provision of therapy to young people (0-18) and their families and/or carers within the North Somerset CAMHS specifically working with eating disorders.

The post-holder will contribute to the provision of high quality evidence-based, specialist Eating Disorder services and supporting the CORE CAMHS sevice. This will include providing outreach work to patients who may find it hard to attend clinics and access support at times of transition between services.

The post-holder will provide leadership support to the team and coordinate day to day activities alongside the systemic lead for ED and with support from the clinical service manager.

We welcome applicants who may be in a current Band 6 role and are looking for a development opportunity. We will consider providing a structured development plan with support in reaching Band 7 competencies over a 6-month period for those that may not meet all essential criteria but have the passion and drive to develop within the service.

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

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

Working for our organisation

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 provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be a member of the Eating Disorder Team and will have the capacity to manage complexity and risk. Using experience in eating disorder work, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to provide assessments and treatment.

The post-holder will provide team leadership and coordinate day to day activities.

Please see Job Description for full duties

Person specification

Education and Qualification

Essential criteria

• Professional qualification in a mental health or social welfare discipline.
• Specialist training in Eating Disorders
• Registration with a professional body; HPC, NMC

Desirable criteria

• Systemic training relevant to eating disorders

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant post qualification experience in the field of child and family mental health.
• Experience of working within a MDT community eating disorders context
• Knowledge of Eating Disorders and recommended evidence based interventions for children and young people.
• Knowledge of legislation relevant to the Children's Act 2004, Mental Health Act 1983 and Safeguarding Guidelines.
• Demonstrable experience of assessment and working therapeutically with children, adolescents and their families within a mental health seƫting.
• Experience of working in a number of ways i.e. assertive outreach, clinic based seƫtings, home or other appropriate environments
• Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within CAMHS
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of supporting other professionals
• Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.

Skills & Ailities

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable leadership skill and ability in a clinical setting
• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
• Skills in communicating with children, adolescent, their families or carers.
• A high level of self-awareness and capacity to reflect.
• A good understanding of, and ability to use, clinical supervision.
• Good organisational and prioritising skills.
• The ability to present and communicate complex information.
• Computer literate

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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