Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner (CAMHS Eating Disorders) - Bristol

Job overview

At times, we will also provide support within Acute Hospital environments.

You will be working across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire alongside CAMHS community teams. This post entails travelling to meet the requirements of the role, therefore a driving license and ability to confidently travel across the region is essential.

Our team ethos is one of continual learning and improvement.

There is an expectation to work shifts that cover service hours which are 08:00 - 20:00 7 days a week - condensed hours/flexible working requests will be considered.

Main duties of the job

We have a permanent and a fixed term 12 month role, which could be considered as a secondment should your current service be in agreement.

Your role be based in our Home treatment team working alongside locality CAMHS teams, supporting young people & families/ carers with a range of eating disorders and co-morbidities. You will be working alongside their Locality CAMHS team to offer a time limited enhanced package of care.

You will provide regular support in the home for young people, their families and or carers including regular meal support. You will work alongside and also offer excellent supervision to support workers within the team in order to provide person centred care to a high standard and prevent young people being admitted to inpatient services, allowing them to get better at home.

You will need to lead support within the EDHTT and be flexible and adaptable taking into account the evidence based treatment for various young people with presentations of eating difficulties and other comorbidities.

Please see attached "Job Description and Person Specification for further details. "

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. Please read this closely and consider the essential criteria for the role, alongside the shift requirements.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications/Experience/Skills

• Appropriate Registration
• 1 year of post registration experience
• Experience of working in a mental health setting AND/OR exp of working with young people
• Knowledge of ED and desire to work within ED setting
• Communication & relational skills and competence
• Experience of receiving & delivering Supervision
• Experience of working with risk

• An additional training e.g. in CBT, FT-AN, DBT, DBT, MI, NVR
• Training in Physical Health e.g. NEWS2 / MEED
• Experience of managing self injurious behaviour
• Experience of delivering family based interventions
• Developing leadership skills
• Experience of teaching or delivering training

This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

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