Job summary
Are you an experienced CAMHS clinician looking for a new opportunity and are passionate about working with young people and their carers. To make a positive difference with supporting our families through a mental health crisis and ensuring they have the best possible patient experience and care.

We are looking for a Band 6 CAMHS clinician to work in the CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team. We are looking for a suitable candidate who can bring skills, experience and enthusiasm to meet the needs of children/young people with complex social, emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental and mental health needs.

In this important role, you will use your extensive skills and experience as a mental health practitioner to deliver high quality care, developing and sustaining relationships across agencies and working as a core member of a multi-disciplinary team. Using both evidence based practice and routine outcome measures, you will use a strength-based approach to work collaboratively with service users, in line with CYP-IAPT key principles.

We are a progressive and dynamic service that work using evidence-based therapeutic treatments and approaches but also foreground anti-oppressive practice and diversity and equality as part of our daily working.

We have 2 full-time vacancies, one permanent and one 9 month fixed term contract available

Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide Intensive Outreach to young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties, such as Anxiety, Low Mood, Emotional Dysregulation and Psychosis, covering the area of Bristol & South Glos. Supported by the team and OTR colleagues to provide, outreach, containment, extended community assessments and multiagency networking. This could include appointments in the YP's home, school and in the community.

We cover a 7 day period covering 9am-8pm. You will be expected to work a variety of different shifts to ensure we can provide our commissioned service.

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

• Provision of rapid access to specialist CAMHS advice and support and to enable referrers todeal more effectively with a range of mental health problems.
• Management of high risk young people in the community through intensive support.
• Increased detection of mental health problems/needs with improved care, treatment andpromotion of improved understanding of and confidence in the delivery of mental health careand collaboration with all agencies involved in the care of young people and families.
• Provision of targeted formal and informal learning opportunities for all staff within the primarycare teams to develop their knowledge and capabilities within the mental health component ofholistic care
• Provision of information sign-posting and support for young people and families.

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

Person Specification
Essential

• RMN qualification or other relevant qualification i.e. social work, psychology and allied healthcare professionals
• Experience of working with children and families
• Experience of using advanced assessment skills especially in determining the nature and severity of mental illness/health in children and young people
• Therapeutic training/skills
• Detailed working knowledge of how specialist child and adolescent mental health services are organized and operate, where and how they fit into the health and social care community

Desirable

• DBT/Systemic experience
• Experience gained in a wide variety of settings
• Skills and experience in educating and training other professionals, particularly non-specialist mental health workers

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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).