Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - North Somerset
Location
Clevedon BS21 6HB
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 a year
Job Highlights
- Join a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team providing therapeutic interventions for children and families with eating disorders, focusing on service development and support.
- Ideal candidates will have experience in mental health, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to delivering high-quality care.
- This full-time role is based in Clevedon, with opportunities for professional development through a comprehensive in-house training programme.
Job Requirements/Description
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Location
Clevedon BS21 6HB
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 a year