Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 Specialist Practitioner and Group Facilitator - Bristol
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About Sequoia
Sequoia is a specialist NHS-commissioned service, co-delivered by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) and Rethink Mental Illness, supporting adults with mild-moderate complex emotional needs (CEN) and personality difficulties across the BNSSG area. Rooted in lived experience and recovery principles, the service provides evidence-based group interventions including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)-informed groups, Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT)-informed groups, psychoeducation courses, and peer support programmes.
Role Overview
As a Specialist Practitioner and Group Facilitator, you will initially be co-delivering DBT informed skills groups. With the purpose of enabling service users to manage emotional intensity, build resilience, and achieve recovery goals. You will work collaboratively with NHS teams, voluntary & community partners, and service users to promote wellness, safety, and inclusion.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate DBT informed groups, adapting content to meet service user needs.
- Support delivery of psychoeducation and peer support courses.
- Assess and triage referrals, determine service suitability, and plan reviews and next steps with service users.
- Support safe discharge back to GP care following programme completion.
- Contribute to crisis planning, safeguarding, and protective interventions.
- Provide clinical leadership, mentoring, and supervision within the team for our Rethink colleagues.
- Work as part of the duty team dealing with ad hoc situations that arise.
- Maintain accurate records and meet reporting requirements.
- Participate in service development, supervision, and training.
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Role Details
This role is offered at full time hours - Mon to Fri. Most service-user facing work runs 9:00am–5:00pm, though some evening sessions are required, so flexibility to work one evening weekly is essential.
This is a hybrid role with most staff being based from home with an expectation to travel for planned meetings and some group delivery, based in community settings within the BNSSG locality. Recognising the emotional impact of this work, we provide robust supervision (individual and team-based), ongoing CPD opportunities & regular chances to connect socially with colleagues.
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.
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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 2,200 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: Jade Pearce
Job title: Senior DBT Practitioner
Email address: jade.pearce6@nhs.net
We welcome people to contact us before applying for the role; jade.pearce6@nhs.net
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