Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner - North Somerset

Job summary
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.

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.

Job 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

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

Desirable

• Systemic training relevant to eating disorders

Experience & Knowledge
Essential

• 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 setting.
• Experience of working in a number of ways i.e. assertive outreach, clinic based settings, 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

• 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

• 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

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).

We are an equal opportunities employer.