Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, collaborative and inclusive registered practitioner to step into the Primary Mental Health Specialist Lead role, based within North Bristol but providing leadership to Risk Support PMHS colleagues across the city.

Your work will ensure that the emotional wellbeing and mental health needs of children and young people are recognised early and responded to effectively, both in your direct clinical work, and in your specialist consultation, advice and guidance to professionals working with children and families.

You will provide clinical leadership and specialist mental health expertise within the Getting Risk Support (GRS) Primary Mental Health Specialist Service, working closely alongside Children's Social Care and Family Help teams to support children, young people and families across North Bristol.

As a senior leader, you will ensure that services are safe, effective, inclusive and family-centred, supporting staff to deliver compassionate care and creating opportunities for children, young people and families to have their voices heard in the development and delivery of services.

Main duties of the job

• Improve the emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes of children and young people open to Family Help & Social Care.
• Support families and professionals to understand and respond to mental health needs.
• Promote early intervention and timely access to appropriate support.
• Strengthen partnership working between CAMHS, Family Help, Social Care, Education and community services.
• Embed trauma-informed, psychologically informed and strengths-based approaches across safeguarding services.
• Ensure children, young people and families are at the centre of decision-making and service development.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, consultation and training to professionals working with children and families.
• To provide highly specialist mental health assessment and intervention to patients and carers as appropriate to the service.
• To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients' formulation and psychological management to non-CAMHS colleagues.
• To use highly specialist mental health knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by the various teams in the area.
• To clinically supervise/line manage other professionals.
• To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the areas served by CAMHS.
• To develop and deliver training in mental health for multidisciplinary staff.

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 2,200 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.

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Closing date: 18 November 2026
Location: Woodland View, Thornfield Rd, Brentry, Bristol, BS10 6NB

Qualifications and registration

• Essential: Appropriate qualification and registration
• Essential: Evidence of ongoing CPD
• Essential: Clinical leadership experience
• Desirable: Formal leadership training or qualification

Experience

• Essential: Experience of working in a multi-Disciplinary team
• Essential: Significant experience of working therapeutically with young people with mental health difficulties
• Essential: Detailed knowledge of child and adolescent development and child and adolescent mental health
• Essential: Experience of working CAMHS
• Essential: Experience of carrying out mental health and risk assessments appropriate to children and young adults
• Essential: Experience of delivering consultations to external professionals
• Essential: Experience of delivering supervision
• Essential: Experience of delivering training

Skills and Abilities

• Essential: Ability to assess mental health need and risks in children and young adults to develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions
• Essential: Ability to work independently and manage own caseload
• Essential: Ability to work in community settings
• Essential: Skills in individual and family therapeutic work
• Essential: Skills in working across agencies or teams
• Essential: Skills in delivering change

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Contact
Clinical Service Manager for North Bristol CAMHS: Hazel Nash, h.nash1@nhs.net, 01173546800

Apply through our website.