Maternity Cover Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Weston Super Mare

We are looking for maternity cover, and while we welcome all applicants we are especially looking for someone who is EMDR or CBT trained.

The post holder would be required to carry out assessments for young people presenting with mental health difficulties in the community, as well as providing a range of interventions and treatments, within an agreed work plan.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary child and adolescent mental health team (CAMHS). working with children and adolescents and their families with complex mental health needs.

This post provides an excellent opportunity for those practitioners who have recently finished RTT or CAPS training, and we have an excellent record in supporting staff in transitioning staff from training into qualified posts these training posts.

If you have EMDR or CBT training you will have the chance to use your skills to deliver specialist interventions on the specialist pathway.

North Somerset CAMHS currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme. Supervision is highly valued and available to all staff. We offer flexible working patterns and have the benefit of working across 2 sites in Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon.

We welcome calls/visits from prospective candidate to discuss this opportunity and what the team can offer in more detail.

Main duties of the job

To work in community CAMHS as a mental health practitioner, as part of a multi-disciplinary team working alongside a range of professionals, including consultant psychiatrist, family therapist psychologists, psychotherapist, nurse and allied health professionals

To coordinate care for a caseload of young people, and be responsible for delivering short-term evidence based interventions from assessment and treatment through to discharge.

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.