Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Weston-Super-Mare

We are looking for a Band 6 CAMHS clinician to join our Urgent Care and Assessment Team (UCAT) in North Somerset. This post is open to Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and clinicians who hold suitable professional registration.

If you are unsure whether your registration is applicable please contact us before applying.

UCAT are a growing, specialist team who are co-located with the wider North Somerset CAMHS service and closely linked to the CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team (CIOT), our partners based in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. UCAT provide urgent assessment and brief crisis intervention to under 18s with a North Somerset GP through two primary pathways - Hospital assessment and Intensive Outreach.

We are looking for passionate and child-focused clinicians with experience in assessment and management of complex risks. The ideal candidate will have experience working collaboratively across health, education and social care settings in order to promote the safety of young people on our caseload.

This role will require working shifts which cover Mon - Sun 09:00 - 22.00

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide urgent assessment and brief intervention to young people with a North Somerset GP who present to A&E in crisis. UCAT provides hospital-based assessments within BNSSG, and urgent follow-ups to NS young people presenting to hospitals out of area.

The team is co-located with the wider North Somerset CAMHS team and works closely with them to provide Intensive Outreach to young people identified of being at-risk of requiring in-patient admission.

The team utilises a number of therapeutic approaches to engage, assess, and offer brief intervention to young people experiencing mental health crisis - DBT, Systemic family therapy, NVR.

The post holder will work collaboratively with young people, families and external agencies to promote the safety of young people, including escalation of safeguarding concerns.

The post holder will offer short-term mental health assessment and intervention to young people in a setting suitable to their needs, including home visits, schools/colleges, and community and clinic room settings.

The post holder will maintain positive working relations with external agencies in order to promote the transitions of young people between services, including transition to AMHS and signposting to appropriate non-NHS services.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

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.