Band 7 Senior Practitioner (CEN) - Coast Resource Centre

An opportunity for a secondment to cover maternity cover for a job share with an experienced senior practitioner for complex emotional needs has become available in North Somerset. The post holder will work within the BNSSG Wide Complex Emotional needs service and be based in the North Somerset area of the team.

You will provide specialist clinical expertise to services in the formulation and interventions for adults with a diagnosis of personality disorder.

Main duties of the job

To share the workload of the senior practitioner for complex emotional needs within North Somerset. This could include:

Supporting the development of staff skills and wellbeing through delivering group and individual clinical supervision.

Delivering evidence based interventions clinically such as SCM and DBT.

Providing leadership support and accountability for the use of the SCM model.

Completing treatment needs assessments

Delivering training alongside the BNSSG Wide CEN Service

Chairing or supporting MDT meetings for service users presenting with high levels of distress, risk or complexity.

Offering advice, consultation and training to the wider health and social care system.

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.