• Job Description

  Req#: C9342-25-0485?language=en&page=438&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are looking for motivated clinician to work 4 days (30 hours per week) in South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team, based in Kingswood and Patchway Hubs. This role has become available as the current post holder has secured internal promotion.

  You will be appropriately qualified (Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Family Therapist, Accredited CBT therapist) and have appropriate professional registration. You will need to demonstrate that you have experience of holding your own caseload including risk assessment and management of complex and enduring mental health needs. Preferably from working within a community CAMHS service but may also include significant experience within other similar services such as adult mental health.

  We are a supportive, experiencedand progressive multi-disciplinaryteam. We offer individual, family and group interventions. You will have the opportunity to develop skills assessing children, young people and families and ensuring they receive evidence based and effective interventions in a timely manner.

  South Gloucestershire CAMHS has radically transformed in recent years including broad team skill mix and opportunities for staff development and innovative practice. An example of this is producing professionally filmed videos to provide an online group for young people with emotional dysregulation. We strive to provide compassionate leadership as we recognize the importance of staff well-being.

  Main duties of the job

  To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.

  To work with and support the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.To contribute to the rota/duty system providing telephone support and advice to young people, carers and professionals who are open to South Gloucestershire CAMHS.

  Where required, contribute to the CAMHS Getting Advice team to support in triaging referrals made to the wider CAMHS service.

  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 NQSW's 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.

  About us

  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.

  Details

  Date posted

  19 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  342-CAMHS058-0525

  Job locations

  Kingswood Hub

  Alma Road, Kingswood

  Bristol

  BS15 4DA

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To carry out assessments of a child or young persons mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.

  To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.

  To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.

  To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.

  Please see attached job description for further details.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To carry out assessments of a child or young persons mental health needs and associated risk when required including deliberate self-harm assessments.

  To assess, develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions and to be responsible of the management of own caseload from referral to discharge.

  To work jointly with staff from other agencies in direct work with children and young people and their families.

  To assess child safeguarding issues for each case. To practice within local safeguarding guidelines, sharing and directly referring on concerns when appropriate and participating in multi-agency safeguarding conferences.

  Please see attached job description for further details.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications/ registration

  Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
  • To maintain professional registration

  Desirable

  • Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents
  • Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people. Including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
  • Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their relatives.
  • Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds

  Person Specification

  Qualifications/ registration

  Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
  • To maintain professional registration

  Desirable

  • Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents
  • Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people. Including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
  • Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to communicate sensitive and difficult information to clients and their relatives.
  • Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds

  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 (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).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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 (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).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  Kingswood Hub

  Alma Road, Kingswood

  Bristol

  BS15 4DA

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  Kingswood Hub

  Alma Road, Kingswood

  Bristol

  BS15 4DA

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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