Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner CAMHS - North Somerset
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North Somerset Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team
North Somerset child and adolescent mental health team is a well-established multi-disciplinary team, which is continuing to grow due to new investment. (CAMHS). The team currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme.
We offer flexible working patterns and have the benefit of working across 2 sites in Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon.
The team also provides Eating Disorder & Learning Disability Services and so have the potential to offer development opportunities.
About the Role
The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary, working as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide assessment, treatments for children, adolescents & their families with complex mental health needs.
We welcome calls/visits from prospective candidates to discuss in more detail this opportunity, and what the team can offer.
Location
WSM & Clevedon are thriving seaside towns within commuting distance to Bristol and Taunton. The M5 motorway is within easy access.
WSM is a growing multi-cultural area with numerous amenities and has access to the beautiful coastline & also the Mendip Hills.
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The area is ideal for those who like an active lifestyle but also who want to be within reach of Bristol and Taunton.
Job Description
To work in community CAMHS as a mental health practitioner, as part of a multi-disciplinary team working alongside a range of professionals, including consultant psychiatrist, family therapist psychologists, psychotherapist, nurse and allied health professionals.
To coordinate care for a caseload of young people, using the CAPA patient flow framework, and be responsible for delivering short-term evidence based interventions from assessment and treatment through to discharge.
About the 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.
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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 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million 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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Becky Davies
- Job title: Clinical Lead & Service Manager
- Email address: Rebecca.davies32@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0300 125 6700
Stuart Mason - Team manager
- Email: stuart.mason5@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0300 125 6700
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