Band 7 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary
We are looking for a Band 7 CAMHS clinician to join our Intensive Outreach Team.

We are a dynamic, supportive and creative team seeking a suitable candidate who can bring skills, experience and enthusiasm to meet the needs of children and young people with complex mental health needs.

CIOT is committed to the development of our team and offers regular access to a range of training opportunities. We hold regular space for CPD and would consider external training as part of workforce development.

Alongside this, our team promotes a culture of togetherness and actively promotes safety in difference. We regularly hold space to explore anti-oppressive practice and what this means for young people, clinicians and the wider healthcare service.

We promote wellbeing within our service and hold a monthly space for external reflective practice, in addition to supervision.

This post involves a mix of shifts.

You will be a key part of the leadership team, which will involve supervision, service development and carrying out senior duties, e.g., Senior Shift Co-ordinator for the day.

Main duties of the job
Our Intensive Outreach Team
Our Intensive Outreach Team shift pattern includes shifts spanning 9-5 and 12-8, covering a 7-day period. You would be expected to work roughly one weekend every four weeks.

Intensive Outreach Team
You will work in both a clinical and leadership role within our IO team, which supports young people and families/carers at risk of Tier 4 psychiatric admission, or those whom CAMHS are struggling to engage within a locality model and who are presenting with high-risk behaviours. We provide an intensive level of support, which can include daily visits, and follow a CPA and goals-based outcome-measure process to ensure we are led by the young person's voice.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us
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.

Details
Date posted: 06 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year (pro rata)
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 342-CAMHS048-0826
Job locations: Campbell House, Henrietta Street, Bristol, BS2 8HR, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions, and to be responsible for the management of your own caseload from referral to discharge.
• To carry out specialist urgent assessments of a young persons mental health needs and associated risks when required, including deliberate selfharm assessments.
• To work collaboratively with young people, carers and the wider system to develop safety plans to reduce risk and enable young people to access support in the community.
• To hold an antioppressive approach at the heart of your practice and challenge oppressive and/or discriminatory issues.
• To work with children, young people and their families, promoting opportunities for their engagement and involvement in formulations, care plans and evaluation of the service they receive.
• To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children, young people and their families.
• When appropriate, to engage in joint work with other specialist CAMHS personnel as agreed with the CAMHS Services Manager.
• To develop effective liaison with referrers and those contributing to referrals to CAMHS, and to guide referrers to appropriate resources for children and young people with mental health needs.
• To attend CAMHS meetings and case discussions as appropriate.
• To practise within current legislation governing the delivery of services to children and young people, such as that for Looked After Children and the safeguarding of children as defined in the Children Act (1989, amended 2004), and local guidelines.
• To assess child safeguarding issues for each case, to practise within local safeguarding guidelines, to share and directly refer concerns when appropriate, and to participate in multiagency safeguarding conferences.
• To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate.
• To comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of your professional body.
• To comply with necessary data collection and information sharing across agencies in line with Trust guidelines on confidentiality.
• To provide reports and maintain written records of assessments, clinical interventions and consultation meetings.
• To be prepared to travel to other sites and clinics, to schools and to the childs home.
• To be IT literate.
• To lead and provide clinical supervision to identified professionals and trainees/students where indicated.
• To participate in clinical and management supervision (as provided) and ensure that time is available to undertake this effectively.
• To keep records and provide clinical reports on interventions and outcomes.
• To develop and sustain links and working relationships with the different communitybased CAMHS teams.
• To work within relevant legal and professional frameworks such as the Children Act and professional body guidelines.
• To work within the guidelines of Clinical Governance and employing NHS Trust policies.
• To ensure that, as far as possible, practice is evidencebased, keeping informed of current practice by undertaking training as appropriate and as required by professional guidelines (e.g., NMC training requirements or Primary Mental Health Work standards and training).
• To explore, research and develop innovative ways to promote positive mental health.
• To inform and influence systemwide child mental health practice, including the development of jointagency protocols for pathways of care, intervention or treatment, joint planning and collaborative working relationships.
• To participate in identifying service needs and gaps across agencies with regard to children and young peoples mental health.
• To participate in obtaining service users views and involve service users in the design and delivery of accessible mental health provision in the community.
• To participate in audit, evaluation, teaching and research as agreed with the line manager.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification
Qualification
Essential

• Professional qualification including registration with professional body e.g. Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapist.
• To maintain professional registration and practice within legal and professional frameworks such as the Children Act and Professional Body guidelines.

Desirable

• Evidence of post qualification training and development.

Knowledge / Experience
Essential

• Knowledge of evidence based practice in working with children and young people with emotional behavioural and mental health difficulties.
• Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines.
• Experience of CAMHS multi-disciplinary team working.

Desirable

• Clinical Risk management in relation to children.

Skills
Essential

• Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds
• Ability to organise and prioritise caseload.
• Ability to provide a specialist assessment and treatment service to children with complex mental health difficulties and their families.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address: Campbell House, Henrietta Street, Bristol, BS2 8HR, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Service Manager
Harri Richards
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.