Band 8a Children in Care Highly Specialist Mental Health Clinician

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Two exciting opportunities have arisen for Highly Specialist Mental Health Clinicians in the Children in Care Specialist CAMHS Service in AWP, based in South Gloucestershire (Thinking Aloud) and Bristol (Thinking Allowed); two well established services with a reputation for working with children and young people who have experienced multiple adversities. The service comprises small supportive, energetic and creative teams and post-holders will provide clinically effective interventions for the adult network and young people. These posts will work closely with the Clinical Lead for Children in Care in AWP and the AWP Specialist Services Manager and work alongside AWP’s core CAMHS Services and also in partnership with Social Care and Education.
The post holders are senior clinicians for the Children in Care CAMHS specialist services within Bristol and South Gloucestershire and are expected to be a significant clinical resource across the Trust.
Both posts are for 3 days a week. If you are passionate about supporting young people with experiences of developmental trauma and believe in the difference that can be made by supporting a multi-disciplinary system to understand and recognise the impact of trauma, we would love to hear from you.
To provide a highly specialist clinical assessment, treatment and consultation service for Children in Care in Bristol and South Gloucestershire and adopted in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, and to work with the wider care systems which impact on the welfare of the child.
To engage in Bristol and South Gloucestershire-wide clinical networking.
Join with AWP Children in Care Clinical Lead and AWP Specialist Services Manager to promote clinical governance, service improvement and effective team functioning.
To attend Service and Team Meetings, CAMHS and Trust Wide as appropriate.
To contribute to relevant CAMHS, Trust and Cross-agency working groups.
To assist management in staff recruitment, retention and provide staff supervision and line management.
To participate in clinical supervision to conform with clinical risk management requirements and professional registration.
To participate in audit activity and, when requested lead audit activity within the multi-disciplinary team.
To participate in the annual appraisal process.
To be responsible for own workload, and engage with professional practice supervision and caseload review through the management process.
To attend meetings with Legal Services and Court representatives as appropriate.
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.
The detailed job description and main responsibilities for the roles are in the attached Job description and Person Specification and please see these for full details

Please refer the Job description for details